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Georges Sergeevich Agabekov (1896–1937) was a Soviet Red Army soldier, Chekist, OGPU agent and Chief of OGPU Eastern Section (1928–1929).

Semyon Ivanovich Aralov was a Russian-Soviet revolutionary, military commander and statesman who served as the first head of the Soviet Red Army Intelligence Directorate and subsequently had a career in the Soviet diplomatic service.

Georgiy Aleksandrovich Atarbekov, born Atarbekyan was an Armenian Bolshevik and Soviet security police official.

Varlam Aleksandrovich Avanesov was an Armenian Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet communist politician.

Abram Yakovlevich Belenky (Khatskelevich) was a Russian revolutionary, Bolshevik and a major functionary of the Soviet secret police, born in Swierżań, Russian Emipre. In 1919-24 he was a head of V.I. Lenin security later promoted to major of NKVD.

Major-General Lazar Izrailevich Berenzon was a Soviet military commander of the Soviet security services, principally the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs, or the NKVD. He served with the state's security organs for almost thirty years, rising to the rank of major general and overseeing the NKVD's financial affairs on major prison labour projects, including the construction of the White Sea-Baltic Canal and the Baikal–Amur Mainline. Between 1940 and 1941, he was deputy head of the entire Gulag system.

Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria was a Georgian Bolshevik and Soviet politician, Marshal of the Soviet Union and state security administrator, chief of the Soviet security, and chief of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) under Joseph Stalin during World War II, and promoted to deputy premier under Stalin from 1941. He later officially joined the Politburo in 1946.

Yan (Ian) Karlovich Berzin, was a Latvian Soviet communist politician and military intelligence officer.

Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin was a Soviet politician who served as Minister of Defense (1953–1955) and Premier of the Soviet Union (1955–1958) under Nikita Khrushchev, following service in the Red Army and as defence minister under Joseph Stalin.

Ilie V. Cătărău was a Bessarabian-born political adventurer, soldier and spy, who spent parts of his life in Romania. Leading a secretive life, he is widely held to have been the main perpetrator of two bomb attacks, which sought to exacerbate tensions between Romania and Austria-Hungary in preparation for World War I. Beyond his cover as a refugee from the Russian Empire, Ilie Cătărău was a double agent, working for both Russian and Romanian interests.

Yakov Khristoforovich Davtyan (Davydov) was the first head of the Cheka's Foreign Department from 1921 to 1922, the first head of Soviet foreign intelligence and later a Soviet diplomat.

Terenty Dmitrievich Deribas was a Russian revolutionary, Chekist and later a 1st rank State Security Commissioner in the NKVD.

Naftaly Aronovich Frenkel was a Soviet security officer and member of the Soviet secret police. Frenkel is best known for his role in the organisation of work in the Gulag, starting from the forced labor camp of the Solovetsky Islands, which is recognised as one of the earliest sites of the Gulag.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Kedrov was a Russian Soviet communist politician, an Old Bolshevik revolutionary, secret policeman and head of the military section of the Cheka.

Mykola Khvylovy was a Ukrainian writer and poet of the early Communist era Ukrainian Renaissance (1920–1930).

Nikolai Pavlovich Komarov was a Russian Soviet politician, statesman and Communist Party official.

Ivan Ksenofontovich Ksenofontov was a Bolshevik revolutionary and one of the founding fathers and leaders of the Soviet secret police and state security agency, the Cheka. He gained notoriety as Chairman of the Supreme Revolutionary Tribunal and later as First Deputy Chairman of the Cheka, the agency's "number two" under Felix Dzerzhinsky, where he played a decisive role in crushing various anti-Bolshevik factions and the Kronstadt uprising; an early supporter of Joseph Stalin, he was described as Stalin's "mole" in the security services.

Kārlis Landers was a Latvian Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet statesman, official of the Soviet state security of the Cheka and OGPU, as well as an historian and journalist.

Martin Ivanovich Latsis was a Soviet politician, Bolshevik revolutionary and state security high officer of the Cheka from Courland.

Fyodor Nikolaevich Lukoyanov (1894—1947) was a Bolshevik revolutionary, journalist, editor, and security officer.

Genrikh Samoilovich Lyushkov was an officer in the Soviet secret police and its highest-ranking defector. A high-ranking officer of the NKVD, he played a role in perpetrating Stalin's Great Purge. When, in 1938, he suspected he would soon fall victim to the purge, he fled to the Japanese. Thereafter, he acted as a major source of intelligence for Imperial Japan about the Soviet Union. At the end of World War II, he was killed by the Japanese in order to prevent him from falling back into Soviet hands.

Dmitry Nikolaevich Medvedev was one of the leaders of the Soviet partisan movement in western Russia and Ukraine.

Stanislav Adamovich Messing was a Soviet national party leader and a leader of the Soviet state security and intelligence bodies. He was a member of the Central Control Commission of the CPSU(b) from 1930-34.

Arvīds Pelše was a Latvian Soviet politician, functionary, and historian.

Jēkabs Peterss was a Latvian Communist revolutionary who played a part in the establishment of the Soviet Union. Together with Felix Dzerzhinsky, he was one of the founders and chiefs of the Cheka, the secret police of the Soviet Russia. He was the Deputy Chairman of the Cheka from 1918 and briefly the acting Chairman of the Cheka from 7 July to 22 August 1918.

Dmitri Zakharovich Protopopov was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Tajikistan from April 1938 to August 1946. He was a member of the Communist Party since 1917. He was twice awarded the Order of Lenin. He was an ethnic Russian, born in Kostyonki, Voronezh Oblast, Russian Empire.

Georgy (Yury) Leonidovich Pyatakov was a leader of the Bolsheviks and a politician during the Russian Revolution.

Stanislav Frantsevich Redens was a Soviet NKVD official, one of those responsible for conducting mass repressions under Joseph Stalin. Redens was himself executed in 1940, after being arrested at the end of the Great Purge in 1938.

Mykola Oleksiiovych Skrypnyk was a Ukrainian Bolshevik revolutionary and Communist leader who was a proponent of the Ukrainian Republic's independence, and led the cultural Ukrainization effort in Soviet Ukraine. When the policy was reversed and he was removed from his position, he committed suicide rather than be forced to recant his policies in a show trial. He also was the Head of the Ukrainian People's Commissariat, the post of the today's Prime-Minister.

Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Tuchkov was a Soviet state security officer and the head of the anti-religious department of the Soviet OGPU.

Vasiliy Vasilievich Ulrikh was a senior judge of the Soviet Union during most of the regime of Joseph Stalin. Ulrikh served as the presiding judge at many of the major show trials of the Great Purges in the Soviet Union.

Józef Unszlicht or Iosif Stanislavovich Unshlikht was a Polish and Soviet revolutionary activist, a Soviet government official and one of the founders of the Cheka.

Moisei Solomonovich Uritsky was a Bolshevik revolutionary leader in Russia. After the October Revolution, he was Chief of Cheka of the Petrograd Soviet. Uritsky was assassinated by Leonid Kannegisser, a military cadet, who was executed shortly afterwards.

All-Ukrainian Extraordinary Commission was a Soviet secret police and an affiliation of the Russian Cheka. It was also known as VUChK to distinguish it from its Russian version - VChK. As its parent organization, VUChK was a Bolshevik penal agency that was effectively used to establish "Dictatorship of the proletariat" and was closely associated with the Red Terror.

Nikolai Sidorovich Vlasik was a ranking Soviet state security (NKVD-NKGB-MGB) officer, Lieutenant-General, best known as head of Joseph Stalin's personal security from 1931 to 1952.

Yakov Mikhailovich Yurovsky was a Russian Old Bolshevik, revolutionary, and Soviet Chekist. He was best known as the chief executioner of Emperor Nicholas II of Russia, his family, and four retainers on the night of 17 July 1918.