Sergei Ivanovich Ogoltsov was a Soviet state security official who served as a Deputy Minister of State Security from 1946 to 1953.
18 Facts About Sergei Ogoltsov
1.
2.
Sergei Ivanovich Ogoltsov was born on 29 August 1900 in Kanino village in Sapozhkovsky Uyezd of Ryazan Governorate in a peasant family of Russian ethnicity.
3.
Sergei Ogoltsov participated in combat activities against the units of the Cossack general Konstantin Mamontov.
4.
In 1923, Sergei Ogoltsov became the Inspector for the Special Branch 14 Infantry Corps based in Kiev.
5.
Sergei Ogoltsov's command was continually transferred in the 1930s to different units within Ukraine, including the 22nd Volochisskogo NKVD border unit, the 26th NKVD border detachment in Odessa, and the 27th NKVD border unit in Sevastopol.
6.
Sergei Ogoltsov was promoted to the commander officer of the 27th Crimean NKVD border group in 1936.
7.
In 1951 Sergei Ogoltsov was appointed the 1st Deputy Minister of State Security of the USSR.
8.
In 1952 Sergei Ogoltsov served as the Minister of Public Security in Uzbekistan and then became the Head of Main Intelligence Directorate of the MVD.
9.
In early 1920s Sergei Ogoltsov coordinated the operations against Ukrainian nationalists and anarchists, including the units of Nestor Makhno, in Poltava Governorate.
10.
Sergei Ogoltsov's strategy was simple: a number of people from villages supporting the counter-revolutionaries were taken hostage and if the villagers refused to reveal the locations of counter-revolutionary units, the hostages were executed.
11.
The discovered units were completely annihilated as Sergei Ogoltsov had given a command not to take any prisoners in armed combat.
12.
An official report to the Deputy People's Commissar of the NKVD Vsevolod Merkulov on the execution of Alter, signed by Sergei Ogoltsov, has been preserved.
13.
In October 1947 he and the Ukrainian Minister of State Security Sergei Ogoltsov Savchenko coordinated operation West, removing a large number of people accused of nationalism and banditry, along with their family members from Western Ukraine.
14.
When Lavrenti Beria came to power in 1953 and revised the antisemitic policies of Stalin's last years, Sergei Ogoltsov was arrested due to his involvement in Mikhoels' murder and stripped of the order awarded to him in 1948.
15.
Sergei Ogoltsov died on 30 December 1976 and was buried at the Vagankovo Cemetery in Moscow.
16.
Sergei Ogoltsov seemed less tainted by dirty affairs than the others until it became known what he had actually done.
17.
Sergei Ogoltsov was the head of the operation to murder the artistic director of the State Jewish Theatre Solomon Mikhailovich Mikhoels in January 1948.
18.
Sergei Ogoltsov had at least one daughter, Nataliya.