Creation of the NKVD

Central Executive Committee of the USSR, On the Organization of the All-Union People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs. July 10, 1934

 

Original Source: Izvestiia, 11 July 1934; Sistematicheskoe sobranie deistvuiushchikh zakonov Soiuza sovetskikh sotsialisticheskikh respublik (Moscow, 1934), text 283.

The Central Executive Committee of the USSR decrees:

1. To establish the All-Union People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs and to include in it the Unified State Political Department (OGPU).

2. The People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs is to be charged with the following duties: Internal ensuring of revolutionary order and security of the State. Internal safeguarding of public (socialist) property. Internal registration of civil acts (registration of births, deaths, marriages and divorces). Internal guarding of frontiers.

3. To form the following departments in the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs:

  • Chief Administration of Security of the State.
  • Chief Administration of Workers’ and Peasants’ Police.
  • Chief Administration of Security of frontiers and of order in the country.
  • Chief Administration of Fire Defense.
  • Chief Administration of Correctional and labor camps and labor settlements.
  • Chief Administration of Civil Acts.
  • Internal Administrative and Economic Department.

4. To organize, in the allied republics, republican People’s Commissariats for Internal Affairs which are to function on the basis of the same Regulations as the All-Union People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs, and to establish in the Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic, instead of the republican People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs, the office of Plenipotentiary Representative of the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs of the USSR To organize in autonomous republics, provinces and regions, local departments of the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs of the allied republics.

5. To abolish the judicial commission of the OGPU.

6. The People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs and its local departments are to hand over the papers regarding criminal offenses which are investigated by them, after the investigation has been completed, to the courts in correspondence with their jurisdiction and in accordance with the existing legal procedure

7. Documents relating to cases investigated by the Department of Security of the State in the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs, are to be handed over to the Supreme Court of the USSR, and the papers relating to such crimes as treason, espionage and the like, are to be handed over to the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR or to the Military Tribunals according to their jurisdiction.

8. To form a special Council attached to the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs of the USSR which, in accordance with its Statute, shall have power to issue orders regarding administrative deportation, exile, imprisonment in correctional and labor camps for a term not exceeding 5 years and deportation outside the confines of the USSR

9. To instruct the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs of the USSR to present the Statute of the Pan-Union People’s

Commissariat for Internal Affairs to the Council of People’s Commissariat of the USSR for confirmation. President of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR, M. Kalinin Secretary of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR, A. Enukidze

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