Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the city of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region

Since the founding of St. Petersburg, police and judicial functions have been carried out by the “Reprimanding Chamber” and sometimes the “City” (town-planning) office, subordinate to the Provincial Office under the governor of the city.

The police department was founded in May 1718 by Peter I. He appointed his batman Anton Manuilovich Deviera as the general-chief of the capital (then Petersburg) and Russian police, and wrote for him “points” - police duties.

In 1917, the police were reformed into the police of Petrograd .

July 10, 1942 the fire department of the NKVD of Leningrad was awarded the Order of Lenin.

August 5, 1944 awarded the Order of the Red Banner.

In August 2010, at a meeting on reforming the internal affairs bodies, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said: “In my opinion, the time has come to return the police to its former name and to refer to our police in the future.” According to the head of state, the militia ceased to have that popular, workers and peasants character in the person of "combatants in uniform", which was inherent in it in 1917 . Thus, renaming the police into the police is a logical decision, a logical step in developing the country's law enforcement system and its integration into the global police community, and in 2011 the St. Petersburg police became known as the “St. Petersburg Police”.

The position of Chief Police Officer as an assistant to the General Police Chief was established in 1766 . The Governor’s reform of 1775 transferred to the Chief Police Officer the control of the city police (since 1780 ), the post of General Police Chief was abolished. The Chief Police Officer was appointed by the Senate , subordinated to the Governor General ; led the Deanery Office, was responsible for calm and order in the city, headed the fire department, “oversaw” trade, urban amenities and sanitary conditions, monitored the observance of laws and regulations of higher and central institutions, and the implementation of judgments. The position of chief police chief was abolished in 1871 in connection with the establishment of the city government in St. Petersburg. In 1881 - 1883 , under the conditions of the growth of the revolutionary movement, it was temporarily restored ^[1] .

Police General

• Anton Devier (1722-1727)
• Minich, Burchard Christophe (1728-1734)

St. Petersburg Chief Police Officer

• Tarbeev, Petr Petrovich (1783-1797)
• Ryleyev, Nikita Ivanovich (1783-1784)
• Althoughyantsev, Nikolai Ivanovich (1798-1800)
• Balashov, Alexander Dmitrievich (1808-1809)
• Golenishchev-Kutuzov Pavel Vasilievich (1810-1811)
• Fedor Trepov (1866-1873)
• Alexander Kozlov (August 13, 1881 - July 26, 1882)
• Greser, Peter Apollonovich (1882-1883)
• Alexander Kozlov (1881-1887)

Heads of the Leningrad Police (GUVD of the Leningrad Oblast Executive Committee)

• Voroshilov, Kliment Efremovich (1917-1918)
• Rotskan, Peter Eduardovich (1920-1921), police chief of Petrograd
• Kishkin, Vladimir Alexandrovich (Aug. 1920 - July 1921), Head of the Petrograd Provincial UGRO
• Peterson, Yan Yanovich (1931-1934) chief of police of Leningrad and the region
• Grushko, Evgeny Semenovich (1939-1944), head of the police department of Leningrad
• Ivanov, Iona Ivanovich (1944-1949), head of the Leningrad police department
• Lagutkin, Emelyan Sergeevich (March 1948 - February 1949)
• Shiktorov, Ivan Sergeevich (February 1949 - October 29, 1949)
• Filippov, Taras Filippovich (October 29, 1949 - March 19, 1953), head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Leningrad Region.
• Bogdanov, Nikolai Kuzmich (March 16, 1953 - May 5, 1955)
• Konovalov, Pyotr Georgievich (1955-1959)
• Abramov, Ivan Nikolaevich (1959 - January 1962), head of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Executive Committee of the Leningrad Regional Council of Workers
• Sokolov, Alexander Ivanovich (March 1962-1972)
• Kokushkin, Vladimir Ivanovich (1972-1983)
  • Deputy Karlov, Georgy Mikhailovich
  • Deputy Smirnov, Nikolai Vladimirovich ,
  • Deputy Mikhailov, Mikhail Ivanovich ,
  • Deputy Bakhvalov, Anatoly Lavrentievich ,
  • Deputy Tsvetkov, Elmir Mikhailovich
• Kurkov, Anatoly Alekseevich (November 1983 - May 1989)
• Voshchinin, Gennady Petrovich (May 1989 - July 1991)

Head of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region

• Arkady Kramarev ( 1990 - 1994 ) ^[2]
• Yuri Loskutov (1994-1996) ^[3]
• Anatoly Ponidelko (from the end of 1996 to June 1998)
• Victor Vlasov (June 1998 - November 1999)
• Veniamin Grigorievich Petukhov (1999-2002)
• Mikhail Vanichkin ( 2002 ^[4] - 2006 )
• Vladislav Piotrovsky ( 2006 - 2011 )

Head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region

The Head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the city of St. Petersburg (Head of the Police of St. Petersburg) is appointed and removed from office by the President of Russia on the proposal of the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation .

• Mikhail Sukhodolsky ( June 11, 2011 - February 10, 2012 ).
• Sergey Umnov (since February 11, 2012 )
• Roman Pugin (Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of February 28, 2019), Police Major General

• The official website of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region
• Olga Kosheleva. The police are the soul of citizenship . - about the history of the creation of the police in St. Petersburg