Committee for State Security of the Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic
Committee for State Security of the Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic or KGB of the AzSSR was the security agency of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, being the local branch of Committee for State Security of the USSR. Its headquarters was on Narimanov Avenue in Baku, capital of the Azerbaijan SSR. The KGB in Azerbaijan was founded in 1954 and would eventually be succeeded by the State Security Service of the Republic of Azerbaijan in 2015.
Chairmen of the KGB of AzSSR were:
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The KGB played a major role in the 1989 Baku pogrom.