People's Commissariat for State Security
The People's Commissariat for State Security (Russian: Народный комиссариат государственной безопасности) or NKGB, was the name of the Soviet secret police, intelligence and counter-intelligence force that existed from 3 February 1941 to 20 July 1941, and again in 1943, before being renamed the Ministry for State Security (MGB).
| Chronology of Soviet security agencies | ||
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| 1917–22 | Cheka under Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR (All-Russian Extraordinary Commission) | |
| 1922–23 | GPU under NKVD of the RSFSR (State Political Directorate) | |
| 1920–91 | PGU KGB or INO under Cheka (later KGB) of the USSR (First Chief Directorate) | |
| 1923–34 | OGPU under SNK of the USSR (Joint State Political Directorate) | |
| 1934–46 | NKVD of the USSR (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs) | |
| 1934–41 | GUGB of the NKVD of the USSR (Main Directorate of State Security of People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs) | |
| 1941 | NKGB of the USSR (People's Commissariat of State Security) | |
| 1943–46 | NKGB of the USSR (People's Commissariat for State Security) | |
| 1946–53 | MGB of the USSR (Ministry of State Security) | |
| 1946–54 | MVD of the USSR (Ministry of Internal Affairs) | |
| 1947–51 |
KI MID of the USSR | |
| 1954–78 | KGB under the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (Committee for State Security) | |
| 1978–91 | KGB of the USSR (Committee for State Security) | |
| 1991 | MSB of the USSR (Interrepublican Security Service) | |
| 1991 | TsSB of the USSR (Central Intelligence Service) | |
| 1991 | KOGG of the USSR (Committee for the Protection of the State Border) | |
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