Sergei Nikiforowitsch Kruglow

Sergei Nikiforowitsch Kruglow ( Russian Сергей Никифорович Круглов ; October 2, 1907 , † June 6, 1977 ) was a Soviet colonel general and politician . Kruglow worked as the Soviet interior minister and head of the Ministry for State Security (MGB). From 1938 he was a senior functionary of the State Security Service and served as Deputy People's Commissar of the Interior. From 1946 to 1953 he served as Minister of the Interior and after Lavrenti Beria's death until his dismissal in 1956.

Kruglow was head of the MGB of the USSR from 1953 to 1954.

Web links

Biography on hrono.ru (Russian)

Individual evidence

↑ The revolution will be bloodless . In: Der Spiegel . No. 8 , 1955 ( online - Feb. 16, 1955 ).
↑ Alexander Solzhenitsyn : The GULAG archipelago . ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
^ Jan Foitzik: Soviet Military Administration in Germany (SMAD) 1945–1949 , p. 56. ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).

personal data
SURNAME	Kruglow, Sergei Nikiforowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Круглов, Сергей Никифорович (Russian); Kruglov, Sergei Nikiforovich (English)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Soviet politician; Interior Minister and Head of the MGB
DATE OF BIRTH	October 2, 1907
DATE OF DEATH	June 6, 1977

[1] The revolution will be bloodless . In: Der Spiegel . No. 8 , 1955 ( online - Feb. 16, 1955 ).

[2] Alexander Solzhenitsyn : The GULAG archipelago . ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).

[3] Jan Foitzik: Soviet Military Administration in Germany (SMAD) 1945–1949 , p. 56. ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).


Cheka 1917–1922	Felix Edmundowitsch Dzerzhinsky (1917–1918) • Jakow Christoforowitsch Peters (1918) • Felix Edmundowitsch Dzerzhinsky (1918–1922)
GPU 1922-1934	Felix Edmundowitsch Dzerzhinsky (1922–1926) • Vyacheslav Rudolfowitsch Menschinsky (1926–1934)
NKVD 1934-1946	Genrich Grigoryevich Jagoda (1934–1936) • Nikolai Iwanowitsch Jeschow (1936–1938) • Lavrenti Beria (1938–1946)
MGB 1946–1954	Vsevolod Nikolajewitsch Merkulow (1946) • Viktor Semjonowitsch Abakumow (1946–1951) • Semyon Denissowitsch Ignatjew (1951–1953) • Lavrenti Beria (1953) • Sergei Nikiforowitsch Kruglow (1953–1954)
KGB 1954-1991	Ivan Serov (1954-1958) • Alexander Shelepin (1958-1961) • Vladimir Semichastny (1961-1967) • Yuri Andropov (1967-1982) • Vitaly Fedorchuk (1982) • Viktor Chebrikov (1982-1988 ) • Vladimir Alexandrovich Kryuchkov (1988–1991) • Leonid Vladimirovich Schebarschin (1991) • Vadim Viktorovich Bakatin (1991)