Date of birth:

September 19th, 1907 (Ustye, Russian Empire)

Date of death:

July 6th, 1977 (Pushkinsky, USSR)

Buried on:

Novodevitsji Cemetery

Nationality:

Soviet

Sergei Nikiforovich Kruglov (1907-1977) was a member of the All-Union Communist Party of Belarus since 1928, commissioner of state security of the 2nd rank (Feb. 4, 1943), colonel general (July 9, 1945). In 1938 he was employed in the NKVD (candidacy was approved by L.P. Beria). In 1938-1939 he was part of the Gulag system, head of Glavpromstroy.
Immediately after the outbreak of war, he was included in the Council for Evacuation under the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR. On July 5, 1941, he was appointed a member of the Military Council of the Front of the Reserve Army, in which he participated in hostilities.
When the NKVD and the NKGB merged, he remained deputy People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the USSR.After the incorporation of the Reserve Front into the Western Front under Zhukov's command, G.K. became a member of the Military Council of the Western Front.
In October 1941, he was appointed head of the 4th Directorate of the Main Directorate of Defensive Works (GUOBR) of the NKVD of the USSR and at the same time commander of the 4th Sapper Army. After the defeat of the German forces near Moscow, Kruglov S.N. was recalled from the active army to the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs and began performing his direct duties. Now the work focused on fighting enemy parachute landings and identifying agents left behind in our rear.

In February-March 1944, S.N. Kruglov participated in the operation to expel Chechens from the North Caucasus to Kazakhstan. He was then sent to fight armed underground nationalist organizations in Western Ukraine and then in Lithuania.
In January 1945, S.N. Kruglov was charged with the responsible task of organizing the protection of “special facilities” in Crimea and providing extensive support to participants in the conference of the heads of government of the USSR, the United States and Great Britain, codenamed “Argonaut.”
In April-May, he offered protection to the head of the Soviet delegation, V.M. Molotov, during his stay at the conference in San Francisco (USA) dedicated to the creation of the United Nations (UN).

On July 9, 1945, in connection with the introduction of military ranks for the entire army in the NKVD and NKGB, S.N. Kruglov was awarded the rank of “Colonel General.”

In July-August 1945, Kruglov offered S.N. protection and service to the delegations of the three victorious powers at the Potsdam Conference. During the same period, until October 1945, he was sent on business trips to the Soviet occupation zone of Germany to solve problems related to the “atomic project.”

On December 29, 1945, Kruglov S.N. was appointed People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the USSR. In March 1946, in connection with the renaming of the People's Commissariats as ministries, he became Minister of Internal Affairs of the USSR. In the postwar period, in accordance with Stalin's grandiose plans, the Ministry of Interior was charged with the construction of several large facilities, in addition to the protection of public order, maintenance of prisons, prisoner camps and special settlements.

On March 11, 1953, he was appointed first Deputy Interior Minister of the USSR in connection with the merger of the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of State Security.
In 1956, he was removed from the post of Interior Minister on Khrushchev's orders.In 1958, he retired “due to disability.”
Khrushchev did not limit himself to this: in 1959 Kruglov was deprived of his pension and military rank (colonel general), evicted from his apartment. In accordance with instructions received, the Interior Ministry accused S.N. Kruglov of some rather far-fetched “crimes” and deprived his former minister of an Interior Ministry pension and medical care, and on January 6, 1960, the Party Control Committee under the Central Committee of the CPSU expelled him from the party “for a gross violation of socialist legality during his work in the organs of internal affairs.” Attempts by S.N. Kruglov to appeal to the Central Committee of the CPSU, personally to N.S. Khrushchev requesting an objective understanding of his issue were unsuccessful.

Thus, the talented Soviet leader Sergei Nikiforovich Kruglov, who became disabled at the age of 52 as a result of hard work at the Interior Ministry, found himself “out of the game” and fell into “informational oblivion,” leaving the general public knowing practically nothing about his multifaceted activities.
On June 6, 1977, for unknown reasons, S.N. Kruglov found himself on the railroad tracks near the Pravda station, where his family's dacha was located, and was “injured by the train,” as a result of which he died. He was buried in the Novodevichi cemetery in his parents' grave.

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