List of Chairmen of the KGB

Chairman of the Committee for State Security

Flag of the KGB commanders
Residence Lubyanka Building
Precursor None
Formation 30 December 1922
First holder Felix Dzerzhinsky
Final holder Vadim Bakatin
Abolished 22 October 1991

The Chairman of the KGB was the head of the Soviet KGB. He was assisted by one or two First Deputy Chairmen, and four to six Deputy Chairmen. And he was the head of the Collegium of the KGB which consisted of the Chairman, deputy chairmen, Directorate Chiefs, and one or two republic-level KGB organization chairmen who affected key policy decisions.

List

# Name
(birth–death)
Took office Left office Premier
1 Chairman of the Cheka (1917–1922)
Felix Dzerzhinsky
(1877–1926)
20 December 1917 6 February 1922
Chairman of the GPU (1922–1934)
Felix Dzerzhinsky
(1877–1926)
6 February 1922 20 July 1926
2 Vyacheslav Menzhinsky
(1874–1934)
30 July 1926 10 May 1934
3 People's Commissar for Internal Affairs (1934–1941)
Genrikh Yagoda
(1891–1936)
10 July 1934 26 September 1936
4 Nikolai Yezhov
(1885–1940)
26 September 1936 25 November 1938
5 Lavrentiy Beriya
(1899–1953)
25 November 1938 3 February 1941
6 People's Commissar for State Security (1941)
Vsevolod Merkulov
(1895–1953)
3 February 1941 20 July 1941
5 People's Commissar for Internal Affairs (1941–1943)
Lavrentiy Beriya
(1899–1953)
20 July 1941 14 April 1943
6 People's Commissar for State Security (1943–1946)
Vsevolod Merkulov
(1895–1953)
14 April 1943 15 March 1946
Ministry of State Security (1946–1953)
Vsevolod Merkulov
(1895–1954)
15 March 1946 18 March 1946
7 Viktor Abakumov
(1908–1954)
18 March 1946 1951
8 Semyon Ignatyev
(1904–1983)
1951 5 March 1953
5 Lavrentiy Beriya
(1899–1953)
5 March 1953 26 June 1953
9 Sergei Kruglov
(1907–1977)
June 1953 13 March 1954
10 Chairman of the Committee for State Security (1953–1991)
Ivan Serov
(1905–1990)
13 March 1954 8 December 1958
11 Alexander Shelepin
(1918–1994)
25 December 1958 13 November 1961
12 Vladimir Semichastny
(1924–2001)
13 November 1961 18 May 1967
13 Yuri Andropov
(1914–1984)
18 May 1967 26 May 1982
14 Vitaly Fedorchuk
(1918–2008)
26 May 1982 17 December 1982
15 Viktor Chebrikov
(1923–1999)
17 December 1982 1 October 1988
16 Vladimir Kryuchkov
(1924–2007)
1 October 1988 22 August 1991
- Leonid Shebarshin (interim)
(1935–2012)
22 August 1991 23 August 1991
17 Vadim Bakatin
(born 1937)
23 August 1991 22 October 1991

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