Vadim Bakatin
last chairman of the KGB (1937–2022)
Vadim Viktorovich Bakatin (Russian: Вадим Викторович Бакатин; 6 November 1937 – 31 July 2022) was a Russian politician. He was the last chairman of the KGB in 1991.[4] due to political reasons.[5] He was the Minister of Interior of the Soviet Union before, from 1988 to 1990. He ran for President of Russia in the 1991 election. Bakatin was born in Kiselyovsk, Kemerovo Oblast, Soviet Union.
Vadim Bakatin Вадим Бакатин | |
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.jpg) Vadim Bakatin | |
| Leader Inter-republican security service of the USSR | |
| In office 6 November 1991[1] – 15 January 1992[2] | |
| Premier | Ivan Silayev |
| Preceded by | Post established |
| Succeeded by | Post abolished |
| Chairman of the KGB | |
| In office 29 August 1991[3] – 3 December 1991 | |
| Premier | Ivan Silayev |
| Preceded by | Vladimir Kryuchkov |
| Succeeded by | Post abolished |
| Minister of Interior of the Soviet Union | |
| In office 20 October 1988 – 1 December 1990 | |
| Premier | Nikolai Ryzhkov |
| Preceded by | Alexander Vlasov |
| Succeeded by | Boris Pugo |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 6 November 1937 Kiselyovsk, Kemerovo Oblast, Soviet Union |
| Died | 31 July 2022 (aged 84) Moscow, Russia |
| Nationality |
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| Political party | Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1964–1991) |
Bakatin died on 31 July 2022 at a hospital in Moscow, Russia at the age of 84.[6]
References
change- ↑ Указ Президента СССР от 06.11.1991 N УП-2818
- ↑ Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 15 января 1992 г. № 22 «Об освобождении от должностей руководителей министерств и ведомств»
- ↑ Постановление Верховного Совета СССР от 29 августа 1991 г. N 2370-I «О членах Кабинета Министров СССР»
- ↑ Yevgenia Albats and Catherine A. Fitzpatrick. The State Within a State: The KGB and Its Hold on Russia--Past, Present, and Future. 1994. ISBN 0-374-52738-5
- ↑ J. Michael Waller. Russia: Death and Resurrection of the KGB.
- ↑ В Москве умер последний председатель КГБ СССР Вадим Бакатин (in Russian)
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