| Name |
Period |
Felix Dzerzhinskiy
(Cheka/GPU/OGPU) | 1917-26 |
Vyacheslav Menzhinskiy
(OGPU) | 1926-34 |
Genrikh Jagoda
(NKVD) | 1934-36 |
Nikolay Jezhov
(NKGB) | 1936-38 |
Lavrentiy Beriya
(NKVD) | 1938-41 |
Vsevolod Merkulov
(NKGB) | 1941 (feb.-july) |
Lavrentiy Beriya
(NKVD) | 1941-43 |
| Vsevolod Merkulov(NKGB/MGB) | 1943-46 |
Viktor Abakumov
(MGB) | 1946-51 |
Sergey Ogolcov
(MGB) | 1951 (aug-dec) |
Semyon Ignatyev
(MGB) | 1951-53 |
Lavrentiy Beriya
(MVD) | 1953 (mar-jun) |
Sergei Kruglov
(MVD) | 1953-54 |
Ivan Serov
(KGB) | 1954-58 |
Alexandr Schelyepin
(KGB) | 1958-61 |
Vladimir Semichastniy
(KGB) | 1961-67 |
Yuriy Andropov
(KGB) | 1967-82 |
Vitaliy Fedorchuk
(KGB) | 1982 |
Viktor Chebrikov
(KGB) | 1982-88 |
Vladimir Kryuchkov
(KGB) | 1988-91 |
L. Schebarshin
(KGB) | 1991 |
Vadim Bakatin
(KGB) | 1991 |
| KGB was resolved on 11th september 1991 |
