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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: H-202Last update of repository: 18 March 2020Muzei “Istoriia politicheskoi politsii i organov gosudarstvennoi bezopasnosti Rossii. XIX—XX vv.—Gorokhovaia, 2”—Filial Gosudarstvennogo muzeia politicheskoi istorii Rossii (“Gorokhovaia, 2”)Previous names
The museum, the first devoted to the history of the political police in Russia, was founded by public funding in 1974 as the Memorial Cabinet-Museum in honor of Feliks Edmundovich Dzerzhinskii (Polish Dzierżyński), the Polish revolutionary leader who became the first head of the Bolshevik security services after the October Revolution. It is located in the house where the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combatting Counter-Revolution and Sabotage (Vserossiiskaia Chrezvychainaia komissiia po bor'be s kontrrevoliutsiei i sabotazhem—VChK), known as the Cheka, ran its operations from December 1917 through March 1918. In 1975 the museum became a branch of the State Museum of the October Socialist Revolution (GMVOSR). It now remains a branch of the successor State Museum of the Political History of Russia (GMPIR—H–201), with its present name dating from 1992. |
