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KGB Museum

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KGB Museum
KGB Museum
KGB Museum
KGB Museum
KGB Museum
KGB Museum
KGB Museum
KGB Museum
KGB Museum
KGB Museum
KGB Museum
KGB Museum
KGB Museum
KGB Museum
KGB Museum
KGB Museum
KGB Museum
KGB Museum
KGB Museum
KGB Museum
KGB Museum
KGB Museum
KGB Museum
KGB Museum
KGB Museum
Hours:
Sunday10am - 5pm
MondayClosed
Tuesday10am - 5pm
Wednesday10am - 5pm
Thursday10am - 5pm
Friday10am - 5pm
Saturday10am - 5pm


The KGB, an initialism for Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti , translated in English as Committee for State Security, was the main security agency for the Soviet Union from 1954 until its break-up in 1991. As a direct successor of such preceding agencies as Cheka, NKGB, NKVD and MGB, the committee was attached to the Council of Ministers. It was the chief government agency of union-republican jurisdiction, acting as internal security, intelligence and secret police. Similar agencies were constituted in each of the republics of the Soviet Union aside from Russia, and consisted of many ministries, state committees and state commissions. The agency was a military service governed by army laws and regulations, in the same fashion as the Soviet Army or MVD Internal Troops. While most of the KGB archives remain classified, two online documentary sources are available. Its main functions were foreign intelligence, counter-intelligence, operative-investigatory activities, guarding the State Border of the USSR, guarding the leadership of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and the Soviet Government, organization and ensuring of government communications as well as combating nationalism, dissent, and anti-Soviet activities. In 1991, after the dissolution of the Soviet state, the KGB was split into the Federal Security Service and the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation. After breaking away from Georgia in the early 1990s with Russian help, the self-proclaimed Republic of South Ossetia established its own KGB . Russia's current head of state, Vladimir Putin, worked at the KGB in Leningrad.
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