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Feliks Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, Polish Feliks Dzierżyński, (born Sept. 11 [Aug. 30, Old Style], 1877, Dzerzhinovo, near Minsk, Russian Empire [now in Belarus]—died July 20, 1926, Moscow), Bolshevik leader, head of the first Soviet secret police organization.

1 Biography 2 Leader of Cheka 3 Legacy 3.1 Iron Felix 3.2 Miscellany 4 Notes 5 References 6 External links 7 Credits Dzerzhinsky's statue, which towered over Lubyanka Square in Moscow, was toppled as part of the celebration of the collapse of communism.

A bronze statue of “Iron Felix” Dzerzhinsky, the ruthless founder of the Soviet secret police and architect of the Red Terror that followed the 1917 revolution, has been unveiled at the...

MOSCOW, Sept 11 (Reuters) - A bronze statue of "Iron Felix" Dzerzhinsky, the ruthless founder of the Soviet secret police and architect of the Red Terror which followed the 1917 revolution, was...

Felix Dzerzhinsky. Felix Dzerzhinsky (1877-1926) was a minor aristocrat of Polish birth who oversaw the Bolshevik party’s much-feared security agencies, the Cheka and the OGPU. Dzerzhinsky was born in Ivyanets in what is now Belarus.

The Monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky ( Russian: Памятник Дзержинскому, romanized : Pamyatnik Dzerzhinskomu ), also known by the nickname Iron Felix ( Russian: Железный Феликс, romanized : Zheleznyy Feliks ), commemorates Felix Dzerzhinsky (1877–1926), Bolshevik revolutionary and head of the first two Soviet state-security secret police organization...

Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, founder of the Bolshevik secret police, the Cheka, later the KGB, c. 1919. (Photo: Laski Collection/Getty Images) As the Soviet Union's primary secret...

Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky , nicknamed "Iron Felix", was a Bolshevik revolutionary and politician. From 1917 until his death in 1926, he led the first two Soviet secret police organizations, the Cheka and the OGPU, establishing state security organs for the post-revolutionary Soviet regime.