OGPU organs and Soviet aviation (1928–1934) by A. S. Stepanov

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Information documents of the GPU–OGPU in 1920s: experience of text mining (based on materials from the North Caucasus) by Alexander Yu. Rozhkov, Timofey A. Runaev

“…The authors found that reports and reviews of the GPU-OGPU of different years had similar terminological, emotive and thematic composition. …”
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Repressions of the OGPU-NKVD-NKGB against Gypsies 1932–1941: On newly discovered materials from Ukrainian archives by ANDRII ZHYVYUK

Subjects: “…Joint State Political Directorate (OGPU)…”
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“The council of bishops were very surprised…” The documents about the story of lubenskiy and grigorianskiy divisions and the role of OGPU in the development of relationship between them by Mazyrin Aleksandr, priest

Subjects: “…the secret department of the OGPU…”
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The tragic route of Baron Tiesenhausen by S. A. Papkov

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Elections to the Councils of Central Black Earth Region at 1929 by Alexander Yurievich Saran

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The attempt to legalize the church administration of the Leningrad’s diocese in 1926 as the prehistory of the “josephite-alexis” division by Mazyrin Aleksandr, priest

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The Last Case and Death of «Moscow Metropolitan» Boris (Rukin): to the Issue of His Suicide by A. MAZYRIN

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The policy of the Soviet state and the Renovationist schism in Kuban, region (1922–1923) by Nikita Kiyashko

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The expulsion of Patriarch Constantine VI from Constantinople in January 1925: a view from the USSR by Aleksandr Mazyrin

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“Dear Reich Chancellor Mr. Hitler”: About anti-Soviet sentiments in German colonies in the USSR in 1932– 1933 by V. A. Bondarev, O. I. Rudaya

“…Evdokimov, to the head of the political sector of OGPU, A. M. Shteyngart. Dated December 15, 1933, the memorandum is stored in the Center for Documentation of Contemporary History of the Rostov Region. …”
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Towards the history of the Vladimir diocese. Bishop Athanasius (Sakharov) and bishop Damian (Voskresensky) (1925–1926) by Kosik Ol'ga

“…However in May, 1925 the church hierarch, on request of OGPU, had to make the signed statement about the not management of the diocese. …”
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Rumors and Conversations in Kazakh Village (Aul) on Eve of Famine (1927—1931) by N. N. Ablazhey, A. S. Zhanbossinova, E. E. Sailaubay

“…It is noted that the analytical materials of the OGPU are the most important source for studying the mood of the population of the USSR in the 1920s — early 1930s, which found reflection in rumors. …”
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To the question about «the revisionist nature of sergianstvo» by Mazyrin Aleksandr, priest

“…Made by Metropolitan Sergius and the secret cooperation of the hierarchy with the OGPU-NKVD, but tried to act in the Church the interests of the Church, as he understood them, unlike the Renovationists who would deliberately to help the godless authorities to destroy the Church from within. …”
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“A Juvenile Case” — The History of a Story by Andrey Platonov by Natalya I. Duzhina

“…Collected together, they constitute an article “A Juvenile Case” — as the story was mistakenly transcribed by the OGPU (security police). The article relies on archival materials. …”
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Features of sentencing by Moscow revolutionary tribunal for the clergy and believers in 1918–1920 by Vadim Nikonov

“…The article notes that most of the clergy tried by the Moscow Revolutionary Tribunal no longer left the field of view of the organs of the Cheka-OGPU-NKVD and were subsequently arrested, many more than once. …”
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Andrey Bely’s Diary Heritage (1896–1933) by Monika L. Spivak

“…It was seized in 1931 by the OGPU officers and is considered missing. The diary of 1932 has been preserved, as well as the diary of 1933, which the author ceased keeping a year before his death. …”
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«Aksenov, firm in the truth…» by Olga Kosik

“…For helping the repressed and active church activities, he was arrested several times by the OGPU authorities. Twice he served his sentence in correctional labor camps. …”
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Central Asian pages of the biography of metropolitan Arseny (Stadnitsky): 1924–1936 by Ekaterina Ozmitel

“…The article makes a number of assumptions concerning the role played by the figure of Metropolitan Arseny in the question of the succession of the supreme church authority and in the plans of the OGPU, which sought the liquidation of the Russian Church. …”
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«Semi-Renovationism» in the Patriarch Tikhon Church in the Middle of 1920s: Bishop Iacov (Mascaev) at Orenburg cathedra (1923–1925) by Zimina Nina

“…At the same time, under the pressure of the OGPU Bishop Iacov gave a covert subscription about submission to the renovationist «synod» and received its decree, dated November 1923, on the appointment the ruling Orenburg Bishop. …”
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