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@kgbfiles

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8,718subscribers

-47 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026

Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 3,162–10,000.

Register entry

Telegram ID-1001441242978
TypeChannel
Username@kgbfiles
Created5 June 2019measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (ext.tg_channel)
First recorded6 August 2026
Last confirmed live17 September 2026
Measurements held14
Confirmed unchanged1 time, most recently 17 September 2026
On Telegramt.me/kgbfiles

Topic

Other / unclassifiable — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 11 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 89% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.

Growth

8,7178,7678,7426 August 2026 — 8,765 subscribers6 August 2026 — 8,765 subscribers6 August 2026 — 8,767 subscribers9 August 2026 — 8,758 subscribers15 August 2026 — 8,753 subscribers18 August 2026 — 8,748 subscribers21 August 2026 — 8,743 subscribers24 August 2026 — 8,735 subscribers28 August 2026 — 8,727 subscribers31 August 2026 — 8,725 subscribers3 September 2026 — 8,733 subscribers9 September 2026 — 8,729 subscribers13 September 2026 — 8,717 subscribers17 September 2026 — 8,718 subscribers8,7186 August 202617 September 2026
14 measurements spanning 42 days, net -47. Dots are measurements; the straight line between them is drawn to join them, not to claim we know the path taken in between — snapshots are recorded only when a count changes, so gaps mean “no change observed”, never “interpolated”. The vertical axis spans 8,710–8,775 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded
Measured (UTC)SubscribersChange
17 Sept 2026, 01:198,718+1
13 Sept 2026, 08:398,717-12
9 Sept 2026, 02:158,729-4
3 Sept 2026, 23:588,733+8
31 Aug 2026, 14:488,725-2
28 Aug 2026, 08:118,727-8
24 Aug 2026, 22:538,735-8
21 Aug 2026, 01:538,743-5
18 Aug 2026, 12:228,748-5
15 Aug 2026, 13:278,753-5
9 Aug 2026, 15:328,758-9
6 Aug 2026, 16:458,767+2
6 Aug 2026, 03:458,765no change
6 Aug 2026, 03:388,765first reading

Engagement

25 posts held, back to 22 July 2026the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 28 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.

ERR · 30 days
11.2%
avg views ÷ 8,718 subscribers
Avg views / post
976
6 posts measured
Reaction rate
2.34%
reactions ÷ views · ER floor
Posts in window
6
of 25 held

ERR is average views per post over the last 30 days divided by subscribers, the definition TGStat uses, so this figure is comparable with the one you will see elsewhere. It falls structurally as a channel grows: a high ERR on a small channel and a low one on a large channel describe reach mathematics, not quality. We publish the figure and the sample it came from and pass no verdict on it.

ER is defined industry-wide as (forwards + reactions + comments) ÷ views — note the denominator is views, not subscribers. Telegram’s public web preview carries views and reactions but not forward or comment counts, so the reaction rate above is the reactions term only and is therefore a floor: the true ER for this channel is higher by an amount we have not measured and will not estimate.

What these figures were computed from
WindowRolling 30 days · latest post in window 28 August 2026
Posts held25 (22 July 202628 August 2026)
Views total5,854
Reactions total137
Forwards / commentsnot exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated
Readings taken28 Aug 2026, 16:25 UTC

Views are a single reading per post, taken at the time above. A post published in the last day or two is still accumulating views, which pulls the 30-day average down slightly. That is a property of the standard definition rather than a fault in it, so we keep the definition rather than “correcting” the number into something nobody can reproduce.

Precision. Telegram publishes view counts on its public widget in short form — 8.12K, 3.7M — so any reading at or above 1,000 reaches us rounded to three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. Averages and rates derived from them are shown to the same precision rather than to the unit: a figure like 3,701,250 would assert digits nobody measured.

Reaction counts are published per emoji and rounded the same way, so a total below 1,000 is exact and a larger one is a sum that may carry a rounded component from each emoji above 1,000. Because it is a sum, it does not look rounded — read a large reaction total as three significant figures per contributing emoji rather than as the figure it prints.

Reaction mix

815 reactions across 25 posts, in 2 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 99.9% of them.

Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
ReactionCountShareShare, drawn
👍81499.9%
👎10.123%

No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.

Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.

Coverage. Reactions were read on 25 of the 25 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 815 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.

Measured over the 25 most recent posts we hold, published 22 July 2026 to 28 August 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.

Recent posts

28 Aug 2026, 07:40 UTC562 views23 reactionsread 28 August 2026

Сам Богатирчук у спогадах, написаних у Канаді вже в 70х, подає зовсім іншу версію: «Еще будучи у Э., я узнал, что Александр хочет поступить в Добрармию, чтобы сражаться против большевизма… Я знал нескольких евреев, товарищей по гимназии, поступивших добровольцами. В условиях гражданской войны это мне все-таки казалось рискованным, ибо всегда могла найтись кучка негодяев и погубить их, сыграв на их еврейском происхожд

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28 Aug 2026, 07:40 UTC565 views21 reactionsread 28 August 2026
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Вчора був неправий, пишучи, що у справі відомого шахіста, лікаря та "власівця" Федора Богатирчука з архіву СЗРУ. Є там один детективний епізод. Був такий київський шахіст (і водночас слідчий трибуналу ЧК) Олександр Евельсон. Офіційна версія - розстріляний денікінцями в 1919 році. Але у справі є згадки про те, що 20 років потому хтось із агентів повідомив: Евельсона, який ховався в Києві та підпільному становищі, зд

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27 Aug 2026, 18:20 UTC921 views27 reactionsread 28 August 2026
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Прочитав у метро під час тривоги!

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27 Aug 2026, 18:11 UTC946 views6 reactionsread 28 August 2026

Справа Богатирчука в СЗРУ є, але, на жаль, нічого цікавого

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25 Aug 2026, 16:34 UTC≈1,190 views30 reactionsread 28 August 2026
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"Монобазар" тепер працює і з ФОПами, то ж я там зареєструвався, і ви можете купити "Агента з ведмедиком" із БЕЗКОШТОВНОЮ ДОСТАВКОЮ. Як і раніше - з підписом. Замовляти тут https://eduarda40.monobazar.com.ua/hM78TQ Згодом додам "Архіви КГБ", опцію "1+1" та більшу кількість книжок в одному замовленні.

👍30

21 Aug 2026, 15:53 UTC≈1,670 views30 reactionsread 28 August 2026
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Львів, 1945 рік. У Театрі мініатюр проводять урочисті збори з нагоди 21-ліття смерті Леніна. У залі сидять професори, викладачі (здебільшого українці, але є й поляки) та студенти університету. Найбільше присутніх вразили дві речі: те, що доповідач виступав російською, і те, що представник Залізничного райокому партії товаріщ Меньшов, сидячи в президії, почав курити. Папіросу за папіросою. З донесення агента "Вишняк

👍30

19 Aug 2026, 06:20 UTC≈1,800 views42 reactionsread 28 August 2026
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Кінець 1980-х, син поета Михайля Семенка Ростислав наполегливо вимагає, щоб йому видали архівну слідчу справу батька. Не дають. Він пише емоційні звернення, в яких нарікає на те, що в країні дехто досі саботує перебудову й гласність, посилається на резонансні публікації в пресі про злочини Єжова-Сталіна. Під час відпустки приїжджає до Києва (сам живе в Мурманській області), приходить на прийом в КГБ УРСР, а з ним пр

👍42

18 Aug 2026, 16:05 UTC≈1,600 views63 reactionsread 28 August 2026
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Цей 17-річний хлопець не спить ночами, працюючи в архівах, і робить такі неймовірні знахідки, а його досі ніхто не привітав. (навіть не буду пропонувати вгадати, скільки насправді архівних документів у його тг-каналі, який він у такий спосіб рекламує). Ну якісь 3,5 тисяч підписників він отак зібрав, а далі щось не росте.

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16 Aug 2026, 07:50 UTC≈1,790 views31 reactionsread 28 August 2026
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1939 рік, у Трипільську експедицію має приїхати вчений з Москви Мечислав Бурський, і московські чекісти просять київських, щоб його супроводжувала агентура. Київ для цього підбирає перевіреного, кваліфікованого агента “Іванова” (так, Віктора Петрова). У записці можете прочитати, як агент спочатку розпитує про Бурського Тетяну Пассек (в документі “Пассік”; вона відома зокрема через те, що саме на честь її дня народжен

👍31

13 Aug 2026, 19:25 UTC≈1,550 views32 reactionsread 26 August 2026

КНУБА згадує видатного архітектора Володимира Заболотного, якого радянські спецслужби розробляли як націоналіста. За посиланням - документи про нього з ГДА СБУ. https://www.knuba.edu.ua/volodymyr-zabolotnyj-u-dokumentah-kgb-pryhylnyk-nezalezhnosti-ukrayiny-ta-naczionalist

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12 Aug 2026, 18:18 UTC≈1,440 views50 reactionsread 26 August 2026

Марко Сугак із мовознавця (Юрій Шевельов, до речі, згадував його саме в цій якості), перекваліфікувався на археолога. Працював разом із Віктором Петровим (агентом НКВД "Івановим" та головним героєм “Агента з ведмедиком”) та фігурував у його донесеннях. Як і інші співробітники Інституту історії матеріальної культури (з 1938 року - Інститут археології) Академії наук. Далі, восени 1937-го - арешт. Сугаку шили не лише т

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12 Aug 2026, 18:13 UTC≈1,320 views34 reactionsread 25 August 2026
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Днями написав мені незнайомий пан на ім’я Юрій Сугак. Він побачив у моєму пості документ зі справи Віктора Петрова (фото 1) - список знайомих, що його Петров склав для НКВД у момент вербування. Під номером 29 у списку фігурував Марко Сугак. "Справа у тому, що з великою імовірністю Марко Сугак є моїм двоюрідним прадідом. Мій прямий прадід - Антон Сугак - був засланий до Сибіру, жив в м. Осинники, Кемеровська обл. Зві

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Showing the 12 most recent of 25 posts we hold for @kgbfiles. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.

Forward network

Built only from forwarded posts we have actually read, on both sides. Coverage is early and deliberately incomplete: a missing link means we have not read the post that would prove it, never that the relationship does not exist. Counts are distinct forwarded posts observed, so they only ever go up as we read more.

Mentions

Named by 3 registered channels — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.

A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.

Appears in Telegram’s recommendations for other channels

The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.

WAS. Популярна Історія
@wasmedia_ua · 24,412
Telegram ranks this channel #61 of 73 here — alongside 72 others — read 16 September 2026

This channel appears in 1 seed channel's Telegram-generated recommendation list in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.

Cite this entry

A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 17 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.

“KGB files” (@kgbfiles), 8,718 subscribers as measured 17 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/kgbfiles.

Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.