Alexander Alekseevich Dzerzhinsky, Felix Edmundovich
From August 1919 to July 1920, part-time head of the Special Department of the Cheka.
Dzerzhinsky Felix Edmundovich (1877-1926), the son of a small-town nobleman, in his youth, through his comrades from the Bund, joined revolutionary activities, organized the Social Democratic Party of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, joined the ranks of the RSDLP in 1903 together with his party, in 1907 became a member of the Central Committee of the RSDLP, since March 1917 a member of the Moscow Committee of the RSDLP and the Executive Committee of the Moscow of the Council, introduced into the Secretariat of the Central Committee. During the October Revolution, a member of the Military Revolutionary Center of the VRK, a delegate to the 2nd All-Russian Congress of Soviets, was elected a member of the VTSIK. Since November 1917 he has been a member of the NKVD Collegium
The All—Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counterrevolution and Sabotage under the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR (CHEKA under the SNK of the RSFSR) is a special security body of the Soviet state.