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Police Department of Russia

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Police Department of Russia
Департамент полиции Российской империи (Departament politsii Rossiyskoy imperii)
Agency overview
FormedAugust 6, 1880
DissolvedFebruary 27, 1917
Jurisdiction Russian Empire
HeadquartersPetrograd
Parent agencyMinistry of the Interior of the Russian Empire
Child agency

The Police Department of the MVD (Russian: Департамент полиции МВД России (Departament politsii MVD Rossii)) was the main police force of the Russian Empire and part of the Ministry of Police in the late 19th century, and was responsible for the management of all the police forces in the Russian Empire including Okhrana branches,[1][2][3] and was aided by the Special Corps of Gendarmes.

History

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The Police Department was established on August 6, 1880 following the dissolution of the Third Section. The newly formed Police department was part of the MVD. From 1880 til 1883 it was called The Department of the State Police ("Департамент государственной полиции" (Departament gosudarstvennoy politsii)). Under its jurisdiction was the Okhrana, all the policing bodies, including the detective branches, and the Fire departments.

After the February Revolution the Department was dissolved by the decree of the Russian provisional government from February 27, 1917.

After the October Revolution the government has announced the establishment of the Militsiya, as the new police force.

Director

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The head of the department was The Director of the Police Department, which was appointed by the Minister of the Internal Affairs.

Directors of Police Department
Minister Start year End year
Ivan Velio 1880 1881
Vyacheslav von Plehve 1881 1884
Pyotr Durnovo 1884 1893
Nikolai Petrov 1893 1895
Nikolai Saburov 1895 1896
Anton Dobrzhinsky 1896 1897
Sergei Zvolyansky 1897 1902
Aleksei Lopukhin 1902 1905
Sergei Kovalensky March 1905 June 1905
Nikolai Garin July 1905 November 1905
Emmanuel Vuich 1905 1906
Maximilian Trusevich 1906 1909
Nil Zuev 1909 1912
Stepan Beletsky 1912 1914
Valentine Brun de Saint Hippolyte 1914 1915
Ruschu Mollov September 1915 November 1915
Konstantin Kafafov 1915 1916
Evgeny Klimovich February 1916 September 1916
Aleksey Vasilyev 1916 1917

See also

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Further reading

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  • Ronald Hingley, The Russian Secret Police: Muscovite, Imperial, and Soviet Political Security Operations (Simon & Schuster, New York, 1970). ISBN 0-671-20886-1
  • R. J. Stove, The Unsleeping Eye: Secret Police and Their Victims (Encounter Books, San Francisco, 2003). ISBN 1-893554-66-X
  • Dominic Lieven (ed.), The Cambridge History of Russia, Volume II: Imperial Russia, 1689–1917, Cambridge University Press (2006), ISBN 978-0-521-81529-1.

References

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