People's Commissars NKVD

—lavrentiy beria.

the agency headed people s commissar (minister). first deputy director of state security service (gugb).

1934–1936 genrikh yagoda, both people s commissar of interior , director of state security
1936–1938 nikolai yezhov, people s commissar of interior

1936–1937 yakov agranov, director of state security (as first deputy)
1937–1938 mikhail frinovsky, director of state security (as first deputy)
1938-1938 lavrentiy beria, director of state security (as first deputy)


1938–1945 lavrentiy beria, people s commissar of interior

1938–1941 vsevolod merkulov, director of state security (as first deputy)
1941–1943 vsevolod merkulov, director of state security (as first deputy)


1945–1946 sergei kruglov, people s commissar of interior

note: in first half of 1941 vsevolod merkulov transformed agency separate commissariat (ministry), merged people s commissariat of interior after nazi invasion of soviet union. in 1943 merkulov once again split agency time good.