State Security Committee of the Belarusian SSR

State Security Committee of the Belarusian SSR
State Security Committee of the Belarusian SSR
A country	Belorussian SSR
Created by	May 19, 1954
Dissolved (converted)	September 19, 1991
Jurisdiction	KGB of the USSR
Headquarters	Minsk : 17 Lenin Avenue
Budget	Unknown
Average number	Unknown
Predecessor	NKVD of the Belarusian SSR, ; MGB Belorussian SSR
Successor	KGB of Belarus
Guide
Supervisor	Perepelitsyn, Alexander Ivanovich (first) ; Shirkovsky Eduard Ivanovich (last)

The State Security Committee of the Belorussian CCP ( KGB of the Belorussian SSR ) is a republican state administration body in the field of state security, which had the status of a committee. It existed from 1954 to September 19, 1991 . From 1954 to 1977, it was called the “State Security Committee under the Council of Ministers of the Byelorussian SSR” . From 1978 to 1991, it was called the “Committee of State Security of the Byelorussian SSR” and worked in the structure of the apparatus of the allied KGB of the USSR .

History of the KGB of the Byelorussian SSR

Predecessors

December 20, 1917 - the formation of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage ( Cheka ) (chapter - F. E. Dzerzhinsky ). The creation and establishment of a national intelligence service on Belarusian soil was carried out in difficult conditions. From the first days of its existence, the Cheka defended the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the state, fought against the intelligence and subversive activities of foreign states, anti-Soviet conspiracies and numerous gangs, consisting of the remains of the defeated white armies and criminal elements.

In the 20s of the last century, the Chekists took a direct part in solving the most difficult national economic and social problems: the fight against hunger, ruin and interruptions in transport, the typhus epidemic, helped to procure food and fuel, and saved street and exhausted hunger children.

March 1, 1922 - the GPU ^[1] is formed under the Central Executive Committee of the BSSR (GPU BSSR) (chapter - J. K. Olsky).

After the Civil War ended, the need for a special body with emergency rights and powers disappeared and the Cheka was abolished. Its successor was the State Political Administration established by the Central Executive Committee of Belarus on March 1, 1922, and from the July 15, 1934 - the NKVD of the BSSR.

The main task of these bodies was the fight against espionage, sabotage and terror.

Their employees already in those days carried out complex operational measures against foreign subversive organizations, acted highly professionally and effectively. In one of these operations, in August 1924, Boris Savinkov, head of the People’s Union for the Defense of the Homeland and Freedom (Territory of the Defense of the Motherland), was arrested from abroad and arrested in Minsk .

The tragic events of the 30s of XX century. touched the state security organs. About 20 thousand employees of the NKVD were repressed. July 15, 1934 - creation of the NKVD of the BSSR, headed by L. M. Zakovsky .

In the pre-war period, the period of World War II and the post-war years, there were numerous reorganizations of the state security organs of the BSSR in accordance with the structure of the state security organs of the USSR (NKGB - NKVD - MGB - MIA).

From 1941 to 1945, the operational groups of the NKVD-NKGB of the BSSR identified and neutralized 22 Abwehr reconnaissance and sabotage schools, 36 residencies and over 6.5 thousand German intelligence agents. Killed 360 state security officers of the republic, 254 were injured, 60 people were missing. 14 security officers were awarded the high title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

The emergence of the KGB of the Byelorussian SSR

In the mid 1950s a new, controversial and complex stage of development of Soviet society began, which required the reorganization of state security bodies. The following tasks were assigned to the organs of the State Security Committee: conducting intelligence work in capitalist countries, combating espionage, sabotage, terrorist and other subversive activities of foreign intelligence inside the country, combating the enemy activities of anti-Soviet elements within the USSR, counterintelligence work in the Armed Forces, organizing encryption and decryption, protection of party and government leaders.

March 13, 1954 - reform of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs , during which the State Security Committee (KGB) was formed under the Council of Ministers (CM) of the USSR.

May 19, 1954 - the formation of the KGB under the SM of the BSSR, headed by A. I. Perepelitsyn.

December 1978 - the formation of an independent KGB of the USSR and the creation of appropriate republican structures.

Dissolution

On July 27, 1990, the Supreme Council of the BSSR adopted the Declaration on State Sovereignty. On August 25, 1991, Belarusian legislators granted the Declaration the status of constitutional law. A new stage in the development of the Belarusian state has begun.

All this directly affected the activities of the Belarusian state security agencies. With the renaming of the Byelorussian SSR in September 1991, the KGB of the Republic of Belarus was renamed the Republic of Belarus KGB. The functions and tasks of the KGB apparatus have changed. One of his main tasks was to protect the constitutional system and state sovereignty of the young Belarusian state, its economic and political interests.

KGB BSSR leadership

Chairman of the BSSR Cheka

Name	Date of appointment	Dismissal Date
Yarkin, Victor Ivanovich (1889-1937)	January 22, 1918	1920
Rotenberg, Alexander Iosifovich (1889-19 **)	1920	June 1, 1921

Chairman of the GPU at the SNK of the BSSR

Name	Rank	Date of appointment	Dismissal Date
Olsky, Yan Kalikstovich (1898-1937)		June 1, 1921	February 1, 1923
Pintal, Stanislav Frantsevich (1894-1937)	captain GB	February 1, 1923	March 1, 1924
Bear, Philip Demjanovich (1889-1937)		April 7, 1924	December 3, 1925
Pillar, Roman Alexandrovich (1894-1937)	GB 2 commissar	December 3, 1925	November 1, 1929
Rapoport, Grigory Yakovlevich (1890-1938)	GB 3 commissar	November 1, 1929	March 20, 1931
Redens, Stanislav Frantsevich (1892-1940)	Commissioner GB 1 rank	May 1, 1931	June 1, 1931
Matson, German Petrovich (1896-1938)	Commissioner GB 1 rank	June 27, 1931	April 4, 1932
Zakovsky, Leonid Mikhailovich (1894-1938)	Commissioner GB 1 rank	April 10, 1932	July 10, 1934

People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the BSSR

Name	Rank	Date of appointment	Dismissal Date
Zakovsky, Leonid Mikhailovich (1894-1938)	Commissioner GB 1 rank	July 15, 1934	December 10, 1934
Leplevsky, Israel Moiseevich (1896-1938)	GB 2 commissar	December 10, 1934	November 28, 1936
Molchanov, George Andreevich (1897-1937)	GB 2 commissar	November 28, 1936	February 3, 1937
Berman, Boris Davydovich (1901-1939)	GB 3 commissar	March 4, 1937	May 22, 1938
Nasedkin, Alexey Alekseevich (1897-1940)	Major GB	May 22, 1938	December 17, 1938
Tsanava, Lavrenty Fomich (1900-1955)	Senior Major GB	December 17, 1938	March 15, 1946
	GB 3 commissar
	lieutenant general

Minister of State Security of the BSSR

Name	Rank	Date of appointment	Dismissal Date
Tsanava, Lavrenty Fomich (1900-1955)	lieutenant general	March 15, 1946	October 29, 1951
Baskakov, Mikhail Ivanovich (1905-1968)	major general	February 6, 1952	March 16, 1953

Chairman of the KGB at the Council of Ministers of the BSSR

Name	Rank	Date of appointment	Dismissal Date
Perepelitsyn, Alexander Ivanovich (1913-1967)	major general	April 6, 1954	August 31, 1959
Petrov, Vasily Ivanovich (1918-2003)	major general	October 13, 1959	August 10, 1970
Petrov, Vasily Ivanovich (1918-2003)	lieutenant general	October 13, 1959	August 10, 1970
Nikulkin, Yakov Prokopyevich (1913-1983)	major general	June 23, 1970	August 4, 1980
Nikulkin, Yakov Prokopyevich (1913-1983)	lieutenant general	June 23, 1970	August 4, 1980

Chairman of the KGB BSSR

Name	Rank	Date of appointment	Dismissal Date
Baluev, Veniamin Georgievich (1927-2006)	major general	August 4, 1980	November 24, 1990
Baluev, Veniamin Georgievich (1927-2006)	lieutenant general	August 4, 1980	November 24, 1990
Shirkovsky, Eduard Ivanovich (1932-2002)	lieutenant general	November 16, 1990	September 1991

1st Vice-Chairpersons

Name	Rank	Date of appointment	Dismissal Date
Maslennikov, Ivan Ivanovich (1900-1954)	brigade commander	January 21, 1939	February 28, 1939
Ivashchenko, Illarion Nikiforovich (1901-1977)	Lieutenant Colonel GB	December 21, 1943	April 6, 1948
	Colonel GB
	Colonel
Dechko, Mikhail Fedorovich (19 - 19 )	Colonel	June 15, 1954	July 29, 1958
Lysakovsky, Ivan Leopoldovich (b. 1921)	major general	1976	1979
Buevich, Valentin Vladimirovich (1931-2005)	major general	1979	1980
Gostevsky, Leonid Ivanovich (1923-19 **)	major general	1980	June 1, 1988
Shirkovsky, Eduard Ivanovich (1932-2002)	major general	1988	November 16, 1990
Shkurd, Gennady Mikhailovich (1940-1999)	major general	1990	1991

Vice-Chairmen

Name	Rank	Date of appointment	Dismissal Date
Salpeter, Ans Karlovich (1899-1939)	Senior Major GB	July 31, 1934	January 1, 1935
Sharov, Nikolay Davydovich (1897-1939)	Senior Major GB	July 31, 1934	February 28, 1935
Karutsky, Vasily Abramovich (1900-1938)	GB 3 commissar	December 16, 1936	April 15, 1937
Khorhorin, Grigory Sergeevich (1900-1939)	Major GB	August 15, 1937	October 1, 1937
Zhabrev, Ivan Andreevich (1898-1939)	Major GB	November 22, 1937	February 26, 1938
Gladkov, Petr Andreevich (1902-1984)	Senior Lieutenant GB	June 1, 1939	November 2, 1939
	captain GB	June 1, 1939	November 2, 1939
	Major GB	May 13, 1940	November 11, 1940
Reshetnikov, Pavel Mikhailovich (1905-19 **)	Major GB	1939	1940
Duhovich, Sergey Grigorievich (1903-1970)	Major GB	May 13, 1940	March 15, 1941
Duhovich, Sergey Grigorievich (1903-1970)	Major GB	August 6, 1941	August 30, 1941
Labetskiy, Alexander Nikitich (1906-1968)	captain GB	May 13, 1940	March 15, 1941
Misyurev, Alexander Petrovich (1902-1966)	Colonel GB	March 15th	December 19, 1941
Klimenko, Athanasius Lukic (1903-1985)	Colonel GB	April 23, 1948	March 1953
Tymoshenko, Vasily Karpovich (1908-1970)	Colonel GB	January 31, 1951	March 31, 1953
Perepelitsyn, Alexander Ivanovich (1913-1967)	Colonel GB	April 6, 1953	April 6, 1954
Dechko, Mikhail Fedorovich (1912-1987)	Colonel GB	April 6, 1953	June 9, 1953
Dechko, Mikhail Fedorovich (1912-1987)	Colonel GB	August 28, 1953	June 15, 1954
Politiko, Vasily Tikhonovich (1910-1986)	Colonel GB	June 9, 1953	August 7, 1953
Holevo, Semen Ivanovich (1912-19 **)	Colonel GB	June 9, 1953	March 27, 1958
Stelmakh, Ivan Makarovich (1912-1990)	Colonel GB	June 9, 1953	August 28, 1953
Voronovich, Ivan Grigorievich (1904-1972)	Colonel GB	the 9th of June	August 28, 1953
Denskevich, Mikhail Ilyich (1909-1980)	Colonel GB	June 26, 1954	July 1959
Smorodinsky, Stepan Alekseevich (19 - 19 )	Colonel	September 1958	January 17, 1966
Smorodinsky, Stepan Alekseevich (19 - 19 )	major general	September 1958	January 17, 1966
Aksyonov, Alexander Nikiforovich (1924-2009)	major general	1959	1960
Rudak, Arkady Denisovich (1911-19 **)	major general	1960	1971
Lysakovsky, Ivan Leopoldovich (b. 1921)	Colonel	1966	1976
Lysakovsky, Ivan Leopoldovich (b. 1921)	major general	1966	1976
Rusak, Vasily Pavlovich (19 - 19 )	major general	1971	September 1987
Shkurd, Gennady Mikhailovich (1940-1999)	major general	1987	1990
Lavitsky, Gennady Mikhailovich (1942-2013)	lieutenant general	1988	1991

Heads of Regional Departments (1938-1954)

UNKVD - Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Baranavichy region (1939-1954)

Name	Rank	Date of appointment	Dismissal Date
Misyurev Alexander Petrovich (1902-1966)	Colonel GB	November 2, 1939	December 19, 1940
Krysanov, Prokofy Egorovich (1901-1966)	captain GB	December 19, 1940	august 1941
Efimenko, Mikhail Sergeevich (1907-1962)	Lieutenant Colonel GB	December 1943	October 12, 1944
Sviridov Alexander Pavlovich (1900-1948)	Colonel GB	October 12, 1944	January 23, 1946
Klimenko, Athanasius Lukic (1903-1985)	Colonel GB	January 23, 1946	April 23, 1948
Marat, Levadiy Ivanovich (1902-19 **)	Colonel GB	May 18, 1948	August 9, 1950
Efimenko, Mikhail Sergeevich (1907-1962)	Colonel GB	August 9, 1950	January 12, 1952
Eliseev, Nikolai Ivanovich (1909-1986)	Colonel GB	February 23, 1952	March 31, 1953
Ilyin, Victor Vladimirovich (1912-19 **)	Colonel GB	April 4, 1953	June 9, 1953
Dyatlov, Ivan Fedorovich (1914-1994)	Lieutenant Colonel GB	June 9, 1953	August 5, 1953
Ilyin, Victor Vladimirovich (1912-19 **)	Colonel GB	August 5, 1953	January 1954

UNKVD - Regional Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Bialystok Region (1939-1944)

Name	Rank	Date of appointment	Dismissal Date
Gladkov, Pyotr Andreevich (1902-1984)	captain GB	November 2, 1939	September 11, 1940
Gladkov, Pyotr Andreevich (1902-1984)	Major GB	November 2, 1939	September 11, 1940
Misyurev, Alexander Petrovich (1902-1966)	Colonel GB	December 19, 1940	March 15, 1941
Fukin, Konstantin Alexandrovich (1900-1979)	captain GB	March 15, 1941	July 1941
Gredasov, Nikolai Sergeevich (1910-19 **)	captain GB	August 8, 1944	October 7, 1944

UNKVD - Regional Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Brest Region (1939-1954)

Name	Rank	Date of appointment	Dismissal Date
Sergeev, Alexey Andreevich (1905-1978)	captain GB	November 1939	March 15, 1941
Labetskiy, Alexander Nikitich (1906-1968)	captain GB	March 15, 1941	April 28, 1941
Ovchinnikov, Vasily Grigoryevich (1901-1978)	captain GB	April 28, 1941	July 1941
Ovchinnikov, Vasily Grigoryevich (1901-1978)	captain GB	November 1943	July 1944
Radchenko, Vasily Vasilievich (1902-19 **)	Colonel GB	July 1944	June 11, 1946
Odintsov, Mikhail Ivanovich (1904-1986)	Lieutenant Colonel GB	June 12, 1946	March 31, 1953
Odintsov, Mikhail Ivanovich (1904-1986)	Colonel GB	June 12, 1946	March 31, 1953
Himchenko, Andrei Dmitrievich (1905-1963)	Colonel GB	March 31, 1953	June 9, 1953
Filon, Pavel Alexandrovich (1907-19 **)	Colonel GB	June 9, 1953	September 23, 1953
Himchenko, Andrei Dmitrievich (1905-1963)	Colonel GB	September 23, 1953	May 10, 1954

UNKVD - Regional Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Bobruisk Region (1944-1954)

Name	Rank	Date of appointment	Dismissal Date
Ovchinnikov, Vasily Grigoryevich (1901-1978)	Lieutenant Colonel GB	October 1944	January 5, 1946
Pronin, Vladimir Ivanovich (1904-1961)	Lieutenant Colonel GB	January 5, 1946	March 31, 1953
Pronin, Vladimir Ivanovich (1904-1961)	Colonel GB	January 5, 1946	March 31, 1953
Zaitsev, Nikolai Sergeevich (1898-1961)	Colonel GB	March 31, 1953	June 9, 1953
Negerevich, Ivan Akimovich (1913-1960)	Lieutenant Colonel GB	June 9, 1953	August 5, 1953
Zaitsev, Nikolai Sergeevich (1898-1961)	Colonel GB	August 6, 1953	January 1954

UNKVD - Regional Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Vileika (Molodechno) region (1939-1944)

Name	Rank	Date of appointment	Dismissal Date
Sokolov, Alexey Ivanovich (1897-1942)	captain GB	November 2, 1939	March 15, 1941
Pronin, Vladimir Ivanovich (1904-1961)	Senior Lieutenant GB	March 15, 1941	august 1941
Suvorov, Gennady Nikolaevich (19 - 19 )	captain GB	July 1944	October 12, 1944
Semenov, Leonid Sergeevich (1905-1984)	Lieutenant Colonel GB	October 12, 1944	April 27, 1948
Semenov, Leonid Sergeevich (1905-1984)	Colonel GB	October 12, 1944	April 27, 1948
Gransky, Alexey Konstantinovich (1902-19 **)	Colonel GB	April 27, 1948	March 31, 1953
Denskevich, Mikhail Ilyich (1909-1980)	Colonel GB	March 31, 1953	April 28, 1954

UNKVD - Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Vitebsk Region (1938-1954)

Name	Rank	Date of appointment	Dismissal Date
Viktorov, Mikhail Petrovich (1897-1950)	captain GB	and. about. March 31, 1938	April 11, 1938
Kaplan, David Yakovlevich (1900-19 **)	captain GB	April 11, 1938	June 16, 1938
Ryadnov, Pyotr Yakovlevich (1902-1940)	captain GB	June 16, 1938	January 1939
Krysanov, Prokofy Egorovich (1901-1963)	Senior Lieutenant GB	February 1939	December 19, 1940
Krysanov, Prokofy Egorovich (1901-1963)	captain GB	February 1939	December 19, 1940
Ptashkin, Ivan Emelyanovich (1911-1941)	captain GB	December 19, 1940	August 6, 1941
Krysanov, Prokofy Egorovich (1901-1963)	Lieutenant Colonel GB	October 1943	September 1944
Gogolev, Victor Ivanovich (1906-1962)	Lieutenant Colonel GB	September 1944	March 31, 1953
Gogolev, Victor Ivanovich (1906-1962)	Colonel GB	September 1944	March 31, 1953
Chesnokov, Nikolai Petrovich (1903-1980)	Colonel GB	March 31, 1953	June 9, 1953
Ivankov, Fedor Petrovich (1911-1979)	Lieutenant Colonel GB	June 9, 1953	August 5, 1953
Chesnokov, Nikolai Petrovich (1903-1980)	Colonel GB	August 5, 1953	May 10, 1954

UNKVD - Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Gomel Region (1938-1954)

Name	Rank	Date of appointment	Dismissal Date
Shlifenson, Samuel Iosifovich (1903-1939)	GB lieutenant	April 11, 1938	November 1938
Gusev, Dmitry Stepanovich (1902-19 **)	captain GB	January 1939	March 15, 1941
Klimenko, Athanasius Lukic (1903-1985)	captain GB	March 15, 1941	September 1941
Klimenko, Athanasius Lukic (1903-1985)	Lieutenant Colonel GB	October 1943	January 23, 1946
Klimenko, Athanasius Lukic (1903-1985)	Colonel GB	October 1943	January 23, 1946
Sokolov, Stepan Grigorievich (b. 1913)	GB 3 commissar	January 23, 1946	January 12, 1948
Gredasov, Nikolai Sergeevich (1910-19 **)	Colonel GB	February 14, 1948	October 28, 1950
Tilchuk, Mikhail Ivanovich (1910-19 **)	Major GB	December 20, 1950	March 31, 1953
Zababurov, Vladimir Ivanovich (1913-1989)	Major GB	March 31, 1953	June 9, 1953
Rutkovsky, Boris Ivanovich (1903-1988)	Colonel GB	June 9, 1953	October 7, 1953
Stelmakh, Ivan Makarovich (1912-1990)	Colonel GB	October 7, 1953	September 8, 1959

UNKVD - Regional Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Grodno Region (1944-1954)

Name	Rank	Date of appointment	Dismissal Date
Politiko, Vasily Tikhonovich (1910-1986)	Colonel GB	October 12, 1944	December 11, 1947
Frolov, Alexey Fedorovich (1907-19 **)	Colonel GB	December 11, 1947	January 10, 1951
Sotsky, Pavel Stanislavovich (1905-1983)	Colonel GB	January 10, 1951	March 31, 1953

UNKVD - Ministry of Internal Affairs of Minsk Region (1938-1954)

Name	Rank	Date of appointment	Dismissal Date
Ptashkin, Ivan Emelyanovich (1911-1941)	captain GB	June 22, 1939	December 19, 1940
Tour, Vasily Petrovich (1907-1978)	captain GB	February 12, 1941	March 15, 1941
Dvinyaninov, Vasily Andreevich (1900-1966)	captain GB	March 15, 1941	July 1941
Strokin, Pavel Alekseevich (1904-1969)	Colonel GB	June 1944	February 1945
Krysanov, Prokofy Egorovich (1901-1963)	подполковник ГБ	февраль 1945	31 марта 1953
Krysanov, Prokofy Egorovich (1901-1963)	полковник ГБ	февраль 1945	31 марта 1953
Сухарев, Петр Федорович (1904-19**)	полковник ГБ	31 марта 1953	9 июня 1953
Недосеков, Иван Васильевич (1900—1900)	майор ГБ	9 июня 1953	5 августа 1953
Сухарев, Петр Федорович (1904-19**)	полковник ГБ	5 августа 1953	15 мая 1954

УНКВД — УМВД Могилевской области (1938—1954)

Name	Rank	Дата назначения на должность	Дата снятия с должности
Ягодкин, Василий Михайлович (1897-19**)	старший лейтенант ГБ	11 апреля 1938	20 января 1939
Пилипенко, Яков Иванович (1903-19**)	капитан ГБ	21 января 1939	август 1941
Гредасов, Николай Сергеевич (1910-19**)	подполковник ГБ	октябрь 1943	апрель 1945
Петров, Александр Степанович (19-19)	подполковник ГБ	15 август 1945	31 марта 1953
Почтенный, Кузьма Григорьевич (1903—1955)	полковник ГБ	31 марта 1953	9 июня 1953
Ермолаев, Яков Филиппович (1903—1989)	полковник ГБ	9 июня 1953	28 августа 1953
Почтенный, Кузьма Григорьевич (1903—1955)	полковник ГБ	28 августа 1953	12 апреля 1954

УНКВД — УМВД по Пинской области (1939—1954)

Name	Rank	Дата назначения на должность	Дата снятия с должности
Духович, Сергей Григорьевич (1903—1970)	капитан ГБ	2 ноября 1939	13 мая 1940
Мурашкин, Иван Павлович (1905—1979)	капитан ГБ	13 мая 1940	15 марта 1941
Одинцов, Михаил Иванович (1904—1986)	лейтенант ГБ	15 марта 1941	октябрь 1941
	старший лейтенант ГБ	15 марта 1941	октябрь 1941
	майор ГБ	июнь 1944	12 июня 1946
	подполковник ГБ	июнь 1944	12 июня 1946
Кузин, Павел Григорьевич (1906-1986)	полковник ГБ	12 июня 1946	31 марта 1953
Оленичев, Алексей Владимирович (1905—1963)	полковник ГБ	31 марта 1953	9 июнь 1953
Золотаренко, Александр Иванович (1916—1979)	подполковник ГБ	9 июнь 1953	5 августа 1953
Оленичев, Алексей Владимирович (1905—1963)	полковник ГБ	5 августа 1953	январь 1954

УНКВД — УМВД по Полесской области (1938—1954)

Name	Rank	Дата назначения на должность	Дата снятия с должности
Гусев, Фёдор Иванович (1898—1955)	старший лейтенант ГБ	11 апреля 1938	20 мая 1938
Кауфман, Залман Исаакович (1900-19**)	лейтенант ГБ	20 мая 1938	январь 1939
Тупицын, Михаил Николаевич (1906-19**)	капитан ГБ	апрель 1939	февраль 1940
Строкин, Павел Алексеевич (1904—1969)	капитан ГБ	22 апреля 1940	7 августа 1941
Иващенко, Илларион Никифорович (1901—1977)	капитан ГБ	7 августа 1941	20 декабря 1941
Строкин, Павел Алексеевич (1904—1969)	Lieutenant Colonel GB	October 1943	June 1944
Строкин, Павел Алексеевич (1904—1969)	Colonel GB	October 1943	June 1944
Marat, Levadiy Ivanovich (1902-19 **)	Colonel GB	July 1944	May 18, 1948
Ermolaev, Yakov Filippovich (1903-1989)	Lieutenant Colonel GB	September 10, 1948	January 31, 1951
Ermolaev, Yakov Filippovich (1903-1989)	Colonel GB	September 10, 1948	January 31, 1951
Rolich, Grigory Alekseevich (1907-1974)	Colonel GB	January 31, 1951	March 31, 1953
Tymoshenko, Vasily Karpovich (1908-1970)	Colonel GB	March 31, 1953	June 9, 1953
Rolich, Grigory Alekseevich (1907-1974)	Colonel GB	June 9, 1953	August 5, 1953
Tymoshenko, Vasily Karpovich (1908-1970)	Colonel GB	August 5, 1953	January 1954

UNKVD - Regional Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Polotsk Region (1944-1954)

Name	Rank	Date of appointment	Dismissal Date
Suvorov, Gennady Nikolaevich (19 - 19 )	captain GB	October 1944	July 20, 1945
Efimenko, Mikhail Sergeevich (1907-1962)	Colonel GB	July 20, 1945	July 24, 1948
Ponomarenko, Grigory Ivanovich (19 - 19 )	Colonel GB	July 24, 1948	March 31, 1953
Voronovich, Ivan Grigorievich (1904-1972)	Colonel GB	March 31, 1953	June 9, 1953
Osipovich, Pavel Konstantinovich (1909-1965)	Lieutenant Colonel GB	June 9, 1953	August 28, 1953
Voronovich, Ivan Grigorievich (1904-1972)	Colonel GB	August 28, 1953	January 1954

Heads of Regional Departments (1954-1991)

Brest Region Office

Name	Rank	Date of appointment	Dismissal Date
Himchenko, Andrei Dmitrievich (1905-1963)	Colonel	May 10, 1954	March 5, 1957
Lorin, Ivan Petrovich (19 - 19 )	Colonel	March 5, 1957	1960
Sazanov, Sergey Georgievich (1918-19 **)	major general	1960	July 16, 1968
Mitin, Sergey Alekseevich (19 - 19 )	major general	July 16, 1968	January 13, 1975
Gostevsky, Leonid Ivanovich (1923-19 **)	major general	January 13, 1975	1980
Chernysh, Vladimir Grigorievich (19 - 19 )	Colonel	1980	September 1991
Chernysh, Vladimir Grigorievich (19 - 19 )	major general	1980	September 1991

Vitebsk Region Office

Name	Rank	Date of appointment	Dismissal Date
Chesnokov, Nikolai Petrovich (1903-1980)	Colonel	May 10, 1954	July 16, 1955
Senko, Efrem Stepanovich (19 - 19 )		July 16, 1955	1967
Irikov, Lev Nikolaevich (19 - 19 )		1967	1971
Gostevsky, Leonid Ivanovich (1923-19 **)		1971	January 13, 1975
Kuzmin, Vladimir Frolovich (19 - 19 )	major general	January 13, 1975	1986
Shirkovsky, Eduard Ivanovich (1932-2002)	major general	1986	1988
Leonov, Anatoly Kirillovich (19 - 19 )	major general	1988	September 1991

Gomel Region Office

Name	Rank	Date of appointment	Dismissal Date
Dyatlov, Ivan Fedorovich (1914-1994)	Colonel	May 10, 1954	December 1957
Zolotorenko, Alexander Ivanovich (1916-1979)	Colonel	December 1957	July 1962
Mitin, Sergey Alekseevich (19 - 19 )	Colonel	1962	1968
Tarasov, Nikolai Pavlovich (19 - 19 )	Colonel
Trump, Vladimir Gerasimovich (1920-19 **)	Colonel	1969	1975
Gooden, Nikolai Petrovich (b. 1928)	Colonel	1975	December 1990
Gooden, Nikolai Petrovich (b. 1928)	major general	1975	December 1990
Minko, Ivan Yakovlevich (19 - 19 )	major general	December 1990	September 1991

Grodno Region Office

Name	Rank	Date of appointment	Dismissal Date
Sotsky, Pavel Stanislavovich (1905-1983)	Colonel	July 12, 1954	January 1958
Ivanov, Alexey Vasilievich (19 - 19 )	Colonel	1958	1961
Kuznetsov, Kupriyan Stepanovich (19 - 19 )	Colonel	1961	1973
Zatsepin, Ivan Antonovich (19 - 19 )	Colonel	1973	1977
Chekhlov, Vladimir Ivanovich (19 - 19 )	major general	1977	1990
Stepanenko, Leonid Dmitrievich (19 - 19 )	major general	1990	September 1991

Minsk Region Office

Name	Rank	Date of appointment	Dismissal Date
Gruzdev, Konstantin Alexandrovich (1916-1999)	Colonel	1954	December 27, 1956
Zimin, Grigory Kozmich (1905-1989)	Colonel	December 27, 1956	August 1960
Nordman, Eduard Boleslavovich (1922-2006)	lieutenant colonel	1961	1963
In 1963, the KGB in the Minsk region of the KGB of the BSSR was disbanded, its functions were transferred to the 2nd Directorate of the KGB at the Council of Ministers of the BSSR. In 1974, restored.
Valko, Ivan Iosifovich (19 - 19 )	major general	1974	1985
Kovalenko, Gennady Yakovlevich (19 - 19 )	major general	1985	1991

Department of the Mogilev region

Name	Rank	Date of appointment	Dismissal Date
Zolotorenko, Alexander Ivanovich (1916-1979)	Colonel	May 19, 1954	December 1956
Kuznetsov, Kupriyan Stepanovich (19 - 19 )	Colonel	January 1957	1962
Ivanov, Alexey Vasilievich (19 - 19 )	Colonel	1962	1965
Ivanov, Nikolai Fedorovich (19 - 19 )	major general	1965	1966
Demidov, Vladimir Petrovich (19 - 19 )	major general	1966	1976
Kononovich, Konstantin Semenovich (19 - 19 )	major general	1976	December 1990
Artsykov, Valery Dmitrievich (19 - 19 )	major general	December 1990	September 1991

Department of Molodechno region

Name	Rank	Date of appointment	Dismissal Date
Denskevich, Mikhail Ilyich (1909-1980)	Colonel	May 1954	June 26, 1954
Filon, Pavel Alexandrovich (1907-19 **)	Colonel	August 30, 1954	May 31, 1957
Politiko, Vasily Tikhonovich (1910-1986)	Colonel	May 31, 1957	1960

In 1960, the KGB in the Molodechno region of the KGB of the BSSR was disbanded. The area has been abolished.

Strength

Structure

Notes

↑ State Security Committee of the Republic of Belarus

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[1] State Security Committee of the Republic of Belarus