149th Anniversary of the Birth of Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky On September 11, 1877, a man whose name became a symbol of an entire era, Felix Dzerzhinsky, was born. He is known primarily as the creator of the Soviet state security agencies. But the scope of his activities was much broader. After the Civil War, the country received hundreds of thousands of homeless children. Dzerzhinsky led the work of state commissions to combat child homelessness, advocating for the creation of orphanages