People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs

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government ministry intelligence agency law enforcement agency secret police agency

The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) was the Soviet Union's powerful security and secret police agency responsible for political repression, mass arrests, and the administration of the Gulag system, especially during Stalin's rule.

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Observed surface forms (11)

Surface form	Occurrences
NKVD	4
NKVD of the RSFSR	1
People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD)	1
People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs of the RSFSR	1
People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs	1
Soviet NKVD	1
Soviet NKVD system	1
ГПУ при НКВД РСФСР	1
Народный комиссариат внутренних дел	1
Народный комиссариат внутренних дел СССР (в части функций госбезопасности)	1
Объединённое государственное политическое управление при НКВД СССР	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	government ministry ⓘ intelligence agency ⓘ law enforcement agency ⓘ secret police agency ⓘ
appliesToJurisdiction	Union of Soviet Socialist Republics NERFINISHED ⓘ
continent	Asia ⓘ Europe ⓘ
country	Soviet Union ⓘ
dissolved	1946 ⓘ
fieldOfWork	border security ⓘ counterintelligence ⓘ intelligence ⓘ internal security ⓘ labor camps administration ⓘ law enforcement ⓘ political repression ⓘ prison administration ⓘ secret police activities ⓘ
hasAlias	NKVD of the USSR NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasPart	Gulag NERFINISHED ⓘ border troops ⓘ internal troops ⓘ militsiya (Soviet police) in certain periods ⓘ state security directorates ⓘ
headquartersLocation	Moscow ⓘ
inception	1934 ⓘ
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity	Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ
nativeName	Народный комиссариат внутренних дел NERFINISHED ⓘ
nativeNameLanguage	Russian ⓘ
notableCommander	Genrikh Yagoda NERFINISHED ⓘ Lavrentiy Beria NERFINISHED ⓘ Nikolai Yezhov NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableWork	Katyn massacre NERFINISHED ⓘ Soviet wartime counterintelligence operations ⓘ administration of the Gulag system ⓘ forced deportations of ethnic groups ⓘ implementation of the Great Purge ⓘ mass political arrests in the 1930s ⓘ
operatedDuringTheRegimeOf	Joseph Stalin NERFINISHED ⓘ
precededBy	Joint State Political Directorate NERFINISHED ⓘ
replacedBy	Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR NERFINISHED ⓘ Ministry of State Security of the USSR NERFINISHED ⓘ
shortName	NKVD NERFINISHED ⓘ
significantEvent	mass operations against perceived enemies of the state ⓘ organization of forced labor projects ⓘ role in World War II internal security ⓘ role in the Great Terror ⓘ
subordinateTo	Council of People's Commissars of the USSR NERFINISHED ⓘ Soviet government NERFINISHED ⓘ

Referenced by (22)

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

Soviet deportation of Crimean Tatars in 1944 → carriedOutBy → People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs ⓘ

Ministry of the Interior of the Russian Provisional Government → followedBy → People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs ⓘ

NKWD → fullName → People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs ⓘ

subject surface form: NKVD

Ostashkov camp → governingAuthority → People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs ⓘ

people's commissariat → hasPart → People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs ⓘ

Государственное политическое управление → hasSuccessor → People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Объединённое государственное политическое управление при НКВД СССР

Norilsk mining industry → historicalOperator → People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Soviet NKVD system

ÁVH → influencedBy → People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Soviet NKVD

Sverdlov → memberOf → People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs ⓘ

subject surface form: Andrei Sverdlov

this entity surface form: NKVD

NKWD → nativeName → People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs ⓘ

subject surface form: NKVD

this entity surface form: Народный комиссариат внутренних дел

KarLag system of Gulag camps → operatedBy → People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs ⓘ

this entity surface form: NKVD

Kozelsk camp → operatedBy → People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs ⓘ

this entity surface form: NKVD

NKVD camps → operatedBy → People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs ⓘ

Soviet NKVD special camp → operatedBy → People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs ⓘ

Case of the Anti-Soviet "Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites" → organizedBy → People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs ⓘ

this entity surface form: NKVD

Народный комиссариат государственной безопасности → precededBy → People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Народный комиссариат внутренних дел СССР (в части функций госбезопасности)

Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR → predecessor → People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs ⓘ

Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR → relatedInstitution → People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs ⓘ

this entity surface form: People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD)

Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Empire → replacedBy → People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs ⓘ

this entity surface form: People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs of the RSFSR

Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Empire → replacedBy → People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs ⓘ

this entity surface form: NKVD of the RSFSR

Joint State Political Directorate → successor → People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs ⓘ

this entity surface form: People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs

Всероссийская чрезвычайная комиссия по борьбе с контрреволюцией и саботажем → successor → People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs ⓘ

this entity surface form: ГПУ при НКВД РСФСР