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Feliks Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, (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.

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...

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.

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...

DZERZHINSKY, FELIX EDMUNDOVICH. (1877 – 1926), Polish revolutionary; first head of the Soviet political police. Felix Dzerzhinsky descended from a Polish noble family of long standing, with known paternal roots in seventeenth-century historic Lithuania. His father Edmund taught physics and mathematics at the male gymnasium in Taganrog before ...