Committee for State Security of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic

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The Committee for State Security of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (KGB of the BSSR; Belarusian: Камітэт дзяржаўнай бяспекі Беларускай ССР; Russian: Комитет государственной безопасности Белорусской ССР) was the main state security organization in the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. It was a branch of the Committee for State Security of USSR.^[1]

Committee for State Security in Minsk

History

In the early 20th century, the Russian

Supreme Soviet of Belarus renamed the KGB of the BSSR to the KGB of the Republic of Belarus, which became the new national security body of the state. A month earlier, the Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic

signed, effectively declaring Belarus an independent state from the USSR.

Chairmen

Chairmen of Cheka of BSSR

Viktor Yarkin (1918–1920)
Aleksandr Rotenberg (1920–1921)

Chairmen of GPU under the Government of BSSR

Jan Olski (1921–1923)
Stanisław Pintal (1923–1924)
Filipp Medved (1924–1925)
Roman Pillyar (1925–1929)
Grigoriy Rappoport (1929–1931)
Stanislav Redens (1931)
German Matson (1931–1932)
Leonid Zakovsky (1932–1934)

People's Commissars of Internal Affairs of BSSR

Leonid Zakovsky (1934)
Izrail Leplevsky (1934–1936)
Grigory Molchanov (1936—1937)
Boris Davydovych Berman (1937–1938)
Aleksei Nasedkin (1938)
Lavrentiy Tsanava (1938–1946)

Ministers of State Security of BSSR

Lavrentiy Tsanava (1946–1951)
Mikhail Baskakov (1951–1954)

Chairmen of the KGB under the Council of Ministers of BSSR

Alexander Perepelitsyn - April 6, 1954 – August 31, 1959
Vasily Petrov - October 13, 1959 – August 10, 1970
Yakov Nikulkin - June 23, 1970 – August 4, 1980
Veniamin Baluev - August 4, 1980 – November 24, 1990
Eduard Shirkovsky - November 16, 1990 – September 1991

See also

Soviet repression in Belarus
KGB (Belarus)

References

^ "Комитет государственной безопасности Республики Беларусь". www.kgb.gov.by (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2016-06-08. Retrieved 2017-09-10.

v t e Republican affiliations of the KGB
Republican affiliation	KGB of Byelorussian SSR (KDB of Byelorussia) KGB of Ukrainian SSR (KDB of Ukraine) KGB of Moldavian SSR (CSS of Moldavia) KGB of Estonian SSR (RJK of Estonia) KGB of Latvian SSR (LPSR Valsts drošības komiteja or VDK) KGB of Lithuanian SSR (VSK of Lithuania) KGB of Georgian SSR (KSU of Georgia) KGB of Armenian SSR KGB of Azerbaijan SSR (DTK of Azerbaijan) KGB of Kazakh SSR KGB of Kirghiz SSR KGB of Uzbek SSR KGB of Turkmen SSR KGB of Tajik SSR

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