NKGB

1. in the U.S.S.R., the government's secret-police organization (1941–46).

NKGB

abbreviation for

1. (formerly) People's Commissariat of State Security: the Soviet secret police from 1943 to 1946

Word History and Origins

Origin of NKGB¹

< Russian N ( aródnyĭ ) k ( omissariát ) g ( osudárstvennoĭ ) b ( ezopásnosti ) People's Commissariat for State Security

Word History and Origins

Origin of NKGB¹

from Russian Narodny komissariat gosudarstvennoi bezopasnosti

Example Sentences

They made the stunning discovery that the channel was carrying secret messages to Soviet spies abroad from the NKGB, the Soviet foreign intelligence service later to become the KGB.

From Washington Post

Almost from its inception as an instrument of "revolutionary justice" following the Bolshevik revolution, the Soviet secret police, known successively as the Cheka, GPU, OGPU, NKVD, NKGB, MGB and, since 1954, the KGB, has been synonymous with terror and coercion.

From Time Magazine Archive