Felix Dzerzhinsky

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Bolshevik Soviet politician human revolutionary secret police chief

Felix Dzerzhinsky was a Polish-born Bolshevik revolutionary best known as the founder and first head of the Soviet secret police, the Cheka, which evolved into the KGB.

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Dzerzhinsky 1
Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Bolshevik ⓘ
Soviet politician ⓘ
human ⓘ
revolutionary ⓘ
secret police chief ⓘ
burialPlace Kremlin Wall Necropolis ⓘ
causeOfDeath heart attack ⓘ
commemoratedBy statues and monuments in the Soviet Union ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship Russian Empire ⓘ
Soviet Union ⓘ
dateOfBirth 1877-09-11 ⓘ
dateOfDeath 1926-07-20 ⓘ
employer Soviet government ⓘ
ethnicGroup Poles ⓘ
familyName Felix Dzerzhinsky self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Dzerzhinsky
founderOf Cheka ⓘ
fullName Felix Dzerzhinsky self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky
givenName Felix ⓘ
hasAlias Iron Felix ⓘ
ideology Leninism ⓘ
Marxism ⓘ
memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union ⓘ
surface form: All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)

Mensheviks ⓘ
surface form: Russian Social Democratic Labour Party

Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) ⓘ
movement Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) ⓘ
surface form: Bolshevik movement
nativeLanguage Polish ⓘ
notableFor founding the Soviet secret police ⓘ
leading the Red Terror ⓘ
notableWork establishment of the Cheka ⓘ
opposedBy anti-Bolshevik forces ⓘ
participantIn Russian Revolution ⓘ
surface form: October Revolution

Russian Civil War ⓘ
Russian Revolution ⓘ
surface form: Russian Revolution of 1917
patronymicName Edmundovich ⓘ
placeOfBirth Dzerzhinovo ⓘ
Minsk Governorate ⓘ
Russian Empire ⓘ
placeOfDeath Moscow ⓘ
Russian SFSR ⓘ
Soviet Union ⓘ
positionHeld Chairman of the Cheka ⓘ
Chairman of the GPU ⓘ
Chairman of the OGPU ⓘ
Chairman of the Supreme Council of the National Economy ⓘ
People's Commissar for Internal Affairs of the RSFSR ⓘ
member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ⓘ
religion atheism ⓘ
residence Moscow ⓘ
significantEvent appointment as head of the Cheka in 1917 ⓘ
successor Vyacheslav Menzhinsky ⓘ
workLocation Moscow ⓘ
Leningrad ⓘ
surface form: Petrograd

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Felix Dzerzhinsky → familyName → Felix Dzerzhinsky self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Dzerzhinsky
Felix Dzerzhinsky → fullName → Felix Dzerzhinsky self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky
Cheka → hasLeader → Felix Dzerzhinsky ⓘ
Dzerzhinsky Artillery Academy → namedAfter → Felix Dzerzhinsky ⓘ
Dzyarzhynskaya Hara → namedAfter → Felix Dzerzhinsky ⓘ
Kremlin Wall Necropolis → notableBurial → Felix Dzerzhinsky ⓘ
Red Terror → perpetrator → Felix Dzerzhinsky ⓘ