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Vadim Bakatin

Vadim Bakatin

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Vadim Viktorovich Bakatin (born November 6, 1937) was a Soviet politician who served as the last chairman of the KGB
KGB
The KGB was the national security agency of the USSR. From 1954 until 1991, the Committee for State Security was the Communist state's premier secret police, internal security, and espionage organization, whose coat of arms—the Shield and the Sword—illustrate a national military hierarchy...

 in 1991. He is the last surviving former chairman of this organization. He was appointed to dismantle the KGB, but he was unable to control this organization and to fulfill the task
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Vadim Viktorovich Bakatin (born November 6, 1937) was a Soviet politician who served as the last chairman of the KGB
KGB
The KGB was the national security agency of the USSR. From 1954 until 1991, the Committee for State Security was the Communist state's premier secret police, internal security, and espionage organization, whose coat of arms—the Shield and the Sword—illustrate a national military hierarchy...

 in 1991. He is the last surviving former chairman of this organization. He was appointed to dismantle the KGB, but he was unable to control this organization and to fulfill the task

Life


He was born in Kiselyovsk
Kiselyovsk
Kiselyovsk is a city in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia. It is located at . Population: 106,341 .- Links :*...

, Kemerovo Oblast
Kemerovo Oblast
Kemerovo Oblast , often called Kuzbass after the Kuznetsk Basin, is a federal subject of Russia , is located in southwestern Siberia, where the West-Siberian Plain meets the South Siberian mountains...

 and educated at Novosibirsk Construction Engineering Institute and Academy of Social Sciences.

Career

  • 1960-71 - supervisor, chief engineer, director of construction works.
  • 1964-91 - Member of the CPSU.
  • 1971-73 - chief engineer of housing construction combine.
  • 1973-75 - Second Secretary of Kemerovo City Committee.
  • 1977-83 - Secretary of Kemerovo District Committee.
  • 1985 - Inspector of CPSU Central Committee.
  • 1985-87 - First Secretary of Kirov District Committee.
  • 1986-90 - Member of CPSU Central Committee.
  • 1987-88 - First Secretary of Kemerovo District Committee.
  • 1988-90 - USSR Minister of Internal Affairs.
  • 1990(Jan-Nov) - Member of the Presidential Council.
  • 1991(Aug-Dec) - Head of KGB.
  • 1991-92 - Head of Interrepublican Security Service.
  • 1992 - Vice-President and Director of Department of Political and International Relations of the international "Reforma" Fund.

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