Committee for State Security (Ukraine)

Committee for State Security of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
Камітэт дзяржаўнай бяспекі Беларускай ССР
Agency overview
FormedApril 16, 1954
Preceding agencies
  • Cheka of the Ukrainian SSR (1918–1922)
  • GPU of the Ukrainian SSR (1922–1923)
  • OGPU of the Ukrainian SSR (1923–1934)
    • NKVD of the Ukrainian SSR (1934–1943)
    • GUGB of the Ukrainian SSR (1934–1941/1941–1943)
  • NKGB (February–July 1941/1943–1946) of the Ukrainian SSR
    • MGB of the Ukrainian SSR (1946–1953)
    • MVD of the Ukrainian SSR (1953–1954)
DissolvedSeptember 20, 1991
Superseding agencies
JurisdictionUkrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
Agency executives

The KGB of the Ukrainian SSR (Ukrainian: Комітет державної безпеки УРСР, romanized: Komitet derzhavnoi bezpeky URSR) was a state committee of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and a regional predecessor of the Security Service of Ukraine, a republican part of All-Union Committee for State Security. After the adaptation of the Constitution of the Ukrainian SSR (1978), it possessed a ministerial authority.

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