Activity of GPU-OGPU agencies in Omsk Region along the river Irtysh and in Oryol Region along the river Oka (1922-1934)
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GPU—short for "State Political Directorate under the NKVD of the RSFSR" - was the intelligence service and secret police of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) from February 6, 1922 to December 29, 1922. With the creation of the USSR in December 1922, a unified organization was required to exercise control over state security throughout the new union. Thus, on November 15, 1923, the GPU left the Russian NKVD and was transferred into the all-union Joint State Political Directorate, also translated as "All-Union State Political Administration". Its official name was "Joint State Political Directorate under the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR", or OGPU.
