Declarations from KGB General Nikolai Leonov, former Deputy Chief of the First Chief Directorate of the KGB, confirmed that the Soviet Union supported Allende's government economically, politically and militarily.

Raul Castro's travels and contact with Soviet KGB agent Nikolai Leonov — whom he met in 1953 during a trip to the Soviet-bloc nations and again in 1955 during his exile in Mexico City — facilitated Cuba's close ties with the Soviets after the triumph of the Revolution.

Declarations from KGB General Nikolai Leonov, former Deputy Chief of the First Chief Directorate of the KGB, confirmed that the Soviet Union supported Allende's government economically, politically and militarily.

Nikolai Leonov, the KGB Chief in Mexico City, was one of the first Soviet officials to recognize Fidel Castro's potential as a revolutionary and urged the Soviet Union to strengthen ties with the new Cuban leader.

Declarations from KGB General Nikolai Leonov, former Deputy Chief of the First Chief Directorate of the State Security Committee of the KGB, confirmed that the Soviet Union supported Allende's government economically, politically and militarily.

Nikolai Sergeyevich Leonov ( born August 22, 1928 ) is a Russian nationalist politician and was a senior KGB officer and Latin America expert in the USSR.

Among its famous inmates were the influential revolutionary poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, a Russian revolutionary Nikolai Bauman, the founder of the KGB Felix Dzerzhinsky ( who was one of the few individuals to stage a successful escape from the prison ), and the writers Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Yevgenia Ginzburg.

In 2003, the Common Fund had been dominated for about 15 years by Nikolai Tarankov of Ukrainian or Belarusian heritage and KGB training.

During the election of the president several candidates were nominated, among leading contenders were KGB persona Vadim Bakatin and Premier Nikolai Ryzhkov.

Nikolai Evgenievich Khokhlov ( Cyrillic: Николай Евгеньевич Хохлов ) ( 7 June 1922, Nizhny Novgorod-September 2007 San Bernardino, California ) was a KGB officer who defected to the United States in 1953.

On April 23, 1985 Gorbachev brought his two proteges Yegor Ligachev, and Nikolai Ryzhkov into the Politburo as full members, and sensibly took the opportunity to keep the ' power ' ministries happy by promoting KGB Head Viktor Chebrikov from candidate to full member of the Politburo, and appointing Minister of Defence Marshal Sergei Sokolov a Politburo candidate member.

Occasionally, KGB assassinated the enemies of the USSR abroad — principally Soviet Bloc defectors, either directly or by aiding Communist country secret services — The killings of Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists members Lev Rebet and Stepan Bandera by Bohdan Stashynsky in Munich in 1957 and 1959, as well as the unrelated slayings of emigre dissidents like Abdurahman Fatalibeyli ; the surreptitious ricin poisoning of the Bulgarian émigré Georgi Markov, shot with an umbrella-gun of KGB design, in 1978 ; The defection of assassins like Nikolai Khokhlov and Bohdan Stashynsky severely curtailed such activities however, and the KGB largely gave up assassinations abroad after Stashynsky's defection, although they continued assisting the Eastern European sister services in doing so.

Nikolai Dalchimsky ( Donald Pleasence ), a rogue KGB officer, defects to America, taking with him the Telefon Book, which contains the names, addresses and telephone numbers of all the agents.

Major Grigori Bortsov ( Charles Bronson ), who is selected for his photographic memory, memorizes the contents of the only other copy of the Telefon Book and is sent to find and stop Nikolai Dalchimsky quickly and quietly, before the politicians on either side learn what is going on and either embarrass the KGB or start a full scale nuclear war.

There is a brief reference to the bridge in episode six, season one of Archer, when Mallory Archer and her long-time lover ( and head of the KGB ) Colonel Nikolai Jakov mention meeting there " one moonlit night " when they both worked on covert operations in Berlin, presumably during the Cold War.

The plot centers on Lundgren's character Nikolai, a Soviet Spetsnaz-trained KGB agent who is sent to an African country where Soviet, Czechoslovakian and Cuban forces are helping the government fight an anti-communist rebel movement.

From 1981-1995 he worked in the KGB Directorate of Karelia and its successor, Security Ministry of Karelia, in 1992-1994 led by Nikolai Patrushev.

The one major personnel change Chernenko made was the dismissal of the chief of the General Staff, Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov, who had advocated less spending on consumer goods in favor of greater expenditures on weapons research and development.

* Nikolai Dmitriyevich Kuznetsov ( 1911 – 1995 ), a prominent Soviet aerospace engineer and the chief of the Kuznetsov Design Bureau

Among the executed were Zhdanov's deputy, Aleksei Kuznetsov ; the economic chief, Nikolai Voznesensky ; the Party head in Leningrad, Pyotr Popkov ; and the Prime Minister of the Russian Republic, Mikhail Rodionov.

* May 7 – Nikolai Arkharov, Russian police chief ( d. 1814 )

Several composers, chief among them Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Dmitri Shostakovich, have created new editions of the opera to " correct " perceived technical weaknesses in the composer's original scores.

The Yekaterinburg region's chief forensic expert Nikolai Nevolin indicated the results would be compared against those obtained by foreign experts.

The purges were carried out by Stalin's successive police chiefs, Nikolai Yezhov was the chief organiser and Kliment Voroshilov, Lazar Kaganovich and Molotov were intimately involved in the processes.

The Great Purge was started under the NKVD chief Genrikh Yagoda, but the height of the campaigns occurred while the NKVD was headed by Nikolai Yezhov, from September 1936 to August 1938, hence the name Yezhovshchina.

Nikolai Yanushkevich was his chief of staff.

Former Ukrainian presidential bodyguard Nikolai Melnichenko bugged the following conversation between Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma and his security chief Leonid Derkach about SPAG:

I think that chief Nikolai Patrushev is coming from the 15th to the 17th.

From 1799 to 1818, through Nikolai Rezanov's intervention, he became chief manager for the influential Russian-American Company.

It was signed by Nikolai Yezhov acting both as chief of NKVD and General Commissar of State Security ( chief of GUGB ).

Nikolai married Nadezhda ( variantly spelled Nadejda ) Alexandrovna von Dreyer ( 1861 – 1929 ), daughter of Orenburg police chief Alexander Gustavovich Dreyer and Sophia Ivanovna Opanovskaya, in 1882.

According to the FSB chief Nikolai Patrushev, two members of the federal forces were killed and five were wounded in a firefight in which Sadulayev and his bodyguard were killed, and two other rebels escaped.

At Stalin's order, the NKVD instructed one of its agents, Nikolai Skoblin, to pass to Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the German Nazi SD ( Sicherheitsdienst ) intelligence arm, concocted information suggesting a plot by Tukhachevsky and the other Soviet generals against Stalin.

It was at this time that Soviet agents assassinated the former chief of the Soviet intelligence service in Western Europe, Ignace Reiss ; It was later revealed that the Soviet NKVD under Nikolai Yezhov spent 300, 000 French francs to accomplish the wet business.

On September 29, 2005, the Mothers of Beslan called for the chief prosecutor Nikolai Shepel to be replaced for incompetence and claims of merely acting out a scripted prosecution without calling high-ranking Russian officials to testify.

The movie, which is influenced by Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector, centers around two Mexicans who are mistaken for government inspectors from Mexico City by the corrupt mayor of a small town.

For a decade beginning 1988, she organized 13 workshops, along with Nikolai Grube and Frederico Fahsen, on hieroglyphic writing for them in Guatemala and Mexico.

The rest of Nikolai was incorporated into the neighbouring City of Nyköping.

James Bidgood's exhibition credits include group shows at powerHouse, New York City ( 2007 ); Exit Art, New York City ( 2005 ); Fundacio Foto Colectiania, Barcelona ( 2003 ), and Nikolai Fine Art, New York City ( 2000 ).

Although Levertov and Goodman would eventually divorce, they had a son, Nikolai, and lived mainly in New York City, summering in Maine.

In 1998, Hammond met up with Casablancas in New York City and together they formed The Strokes with Casablancas ' former schoolmates Nikolai Fraiture, Nick Valensi, and Fabrizio Moretti.

Nikolai Philippe Fraiture ( born November 13, 1978 in New York City, United States ) is the bass player for the American indie rock band, The Strokes.

The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya (, Skazaniye o nevidimom grade Kitezhe i deve Fevronii ) is an opera in four acts by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.

* Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's opera The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya ( 1907 ) is based on the legend of Kitezh.

Stralsund ( Germany ): City Hall and St. Nikolai Church at the Old Market