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Semyon Denisovich Ignatiev, also spelled Ignatyev (; 14 September1904 in Karlivka
Karlivka

Karlivka is a city in Poltava Oblast, Ukraine. Population is 17,995 ....
 – 27 November 1983 in Moscow
Moscow

Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
) was a Soviet
Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
 politician.

Ignatiev, the son of a peasant, an engineer, joined the Communist Party in 1926. For most of his career, he was a discreet regional apparatchik
Apparatchik

Apparatchik is a Russian language colloquial term for a full-time, professional functionary of the Communist Party or government; i.e., an agent of the governmental or party "apparat" that held any position of bureaucratic or political responsibility, with the exception of the higher ranks of management....
, serving as Party Secretary in Buryat ASSR, Bashkir ASSR, Byelorussian SSR
Byelorussian SSR

The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic was one of Republics of the Soviet Union of the Soviet Union. It was one of the four original founding members of the Soviet Union in 1922, together with the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, the Transcaucasian SFSR and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic....
 and finally Uzbek SSR
Uzbek SSR

The Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic , also known as the Uzbek SSR for short, was one of the republics of the Soviet Union since its creation in 1924....
. He was called to Moscow
Moscow

Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
 in 1950. Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death in 1953....
 wanted Ignatiev to counter the influence of Lavrenti Beria and Viktor Abakumov
Viktor Abakumov

Viktor Semyonovich Abakumov Abakumov, was born in 1894 in Moscow . He joined Soviet security organization in 1932, and started working in the Economics Department in one of the OGPU Moscow field district office....
, the two leading officials of the secret police at the time.

In 1951, he was chosen by Stalin to replace Abakumov as the Minister of the MGB of the USSR.






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Semyon Denisovich Ignatiev, also spelled Ignatyev (; 14 September1904 in Karlivka
Karlivka

Karlivka is a city in Poltava Oblast, Ukraine. Population is 17,995 ....
 – 27 November 1983 in Moscow
Moscow

Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
) was a Soviet
Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
 politician.

Ignatiev, the son of a peasant, an engineer, joined the Communist Party in 1926. For most of his career, he was a discreet regional apparatchik
Apparatchik

Apparatchik is a Russian language colloquial term for a full-time, professional functionary of the Communist Party or government; i.e., an agent of the governmental or party "apparat" that held any position of bureaucratic or political responsibility, with the exception of the higher ranks of management....
, serving as Party Secretary in Buryat ASSR, Bashkir ASSR, Byelorussian SSR
Byelorussian SSR

The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic was one of Republics of the Soviet Union of the Soviet Union. It was one of the four original founding members of the Soviet Union in 1922, together with the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, the Transcaucasian SFSR and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic....
 and finally Uzbek SSR
Uzbek SSR

The Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic , also known as the Uzbek SSR for short, was one of the republics of the Soviet Union since its creation in 1924....
. He was called to Moscow
Moscow

Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
 in 1950. Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death in 1953....
 wanted Ignatiev to counter the influence of Lavrenti Beria and Viktor Abakumov
Viktor Abakumov

Viktor Semyonovich Abakumov Abakumov, was born in 1894 in Moscow . He joined Soviet security organization in 1932, and started working in the Economics Department in one of the OGPU Moscow field district office....
, the two leading officials of the secret police at the time.

In 1951, he was chosen by Stalin to replace Abakumov as the Minister of the MGB of the USSR. During his tenure as head of the secret police, Ignatiev investigated the Doctors' Plot
Doctors' plot

The Doctors' plot was an alleged conspiracy to eliminate the leadership of the Soviet Union by means of Jewish doctors poisoning top leadership....
 and helped propagating antisemitism in the Soviet Union, acting on Stalin's direct orders.

He was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

The Central Committee, abbreviated in Russian as ??, "Tse-ka", was the highest body of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union . Its full name was ??????????? ??????? ???????????????? ?????? ?????????? ????? = ?? ????; Tsentralnyy Komitet Kommunistitcheskoy Partii Sovetskogo Soyuza = TsK KPSS, or the Central Committee of the Commun...
 from 1952 until 1961. He also briefly served as a member of the Presidium of the Central Committee (previously named Politburo) in the final months before Stalin's demise.

Immediately after the Soviet leader's death, Ignatiev lost most of his power, as Beria absorbed the MGB into his MVD on 5 March 1953. Ignatiev was sent back to Bashkir ASSR and ended his political career as the Party Secretary in Tatar ASSR, before retiring in 1960.

Unlike Beria and Abakumov, who were executed in 1953, Ignatiev ultimately became Stalin's only head of secret police to enjoy a peaceful death. He died in 1983 and was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery
Novodevichy Cemetery

Novodevichy Cemetery is the most famous cemetery in Moscow, Russia, situated next to the World Heritage Site, the 16th-century Novodevichy Convent, which is the city's third most popular tourist site....
 in Moscow, along with many members of the Soviet elite.

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