1993 Vitaliy Kurashik Principal Chekists Cheka until April 1921 Mikhail Vikhman (later in Chernihiv) April 1921 – June 1921 Smirnov 20 June 1921 – 1921 Fyodor Fomin (transferred to Kiev) 11 November 1921 – February 1922 Aleksandr Rotenberg Crimea GPU February 1922 – 11 September 1922 Aleksandr Rotenberg 11 September 1922 – 25 April 1923 Stanislav Redens Merged GPU 25 April 1923 – 9 June 1924 Stanislav Redens 20 May 1924 – 29 July 1925 Sergei Szwarz (transferred to the Special department of the Black Sea Navy) 1925 Aleksandr Toropkin (transferred to Ural) October 1926 – 26 April 1928 Ivan Apeter (transferred to the Special department of the Black Sea Navy) OGPU 26 April 1928 – December 1929 Grigoriy Rapoport (transferred to Belarus Military District) 23 January 1930 – 10 July 1934 Eduard Salins (Eduards Saliņš) Narkom of State Security 26 February 1941 – 31 July 1941 Major Grigoriy Karanadze 5 October 1943 – 5 July 1945 Commissar of the 3rd rank Pyotr Fokin See also Crimea Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine List of chairmen of the Executive Committee of Crimea Notes References External links Early Soviet republics Autonomous republics of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Autonomous republics of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Russian-speaking countries and territories States and territories established in 1921 States and territories disestablished in 1945 States and territories established in 1991 States and territories disestablished in 1992 Former socialist republics 1921 establishments in Russia 1945 disestablishments in the Soviet Union 1991 establishments in the Soviet Union 1992 disestablishments in Ukraine Post–Russian Empire states Political history of Crimea