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Kovalev Valentin Alekseevich Biographical information: born January 10, 1944, native of Moscow. Higher education, graduated from the Law Faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University. After graduation, he taught at the Law School

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E.G. SOBOLEV When I look at the T-72 tank, my thoughts return to 1972 - the year of the “stellar” run of tanks (comparative military tests of two brands of tanks: T-72 and T-80). The scale of the tests is extraordinary: a tank battalion was formed, which included two Valentin Alekseevich Sobolev

(b. March 11, 1947 in the village of Gudri-Olum, Kizyl-Atrek district, Ashgabat region of the Turkmen SSR), figure in the Soviet and Russian state security agencies, colonel general.

Biography

Born into the family of a border guard officer.

He began his career in 1962 in the construction and installation department of the Ashgabatstroy trust in Ashgabat.

After graduating from the institute, he worked as a foreman and foreman in construction organizations in Ashgabat and Moscow.

In 1972, he received and accepted an offer to work in the USSR State Security Committee. Graduated from the Higher School of the KGB of the USSR (1974). Former secretary of the party committee of the KGB of the USSR.

In the early 1990s, he headed the Tomsk department of the KGB.

In 1994-1999, Deputy Director of the FSB (until 1995, FSK), in 1997-1999, First Deputy Director of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation.

He held the position of head of the FSB department for combating terrorism, then - the position of first deputy director of the FSB - head of the department for combating terrorism.

Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation (1997-1999; 2008-2012), Acting Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation (2007-2008). In March 2012, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree on the resignation of 65-year-old Valentin Sobolev. He was replaced in his position by Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Evgeny Lukyanov.

On December 11, 2012, he was unanimously elected President of the Association of Counterintelligence Veterans (ROO Vetkon).

Family

Married, has two daughters.

Awards

He was awarded the Order of Courage, “For Merit to the Fatherland” III and IV degrees, “For Military Merit”, medals, and the badge “For Service in Counterintelligence” I degree. Honorary counterintelligence officer.

Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation (1997-1999; 2008-2012). Acting Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation (2007-2008). In 1997-99 he was first deputy, in 1994-99 - deputy director of the FSB. Worked for a long time in the state security agencies, Colonel General.

Valentin Alekseevich Sobolev was born on March 11, 1947 in the village of Gudri-Olum, Turkmen SSR, into the family of a border guard officer. In 1969 he graduated from the Moscow Civil Engineering Institute (MISI), in 1974 - from the Higher School of the KGB of the USSR. Since 1962, he worked in the construction and installation department of the Ashgabatstroy trust, and from 1969 as a foreman, then as a foreman in the Turkmensantehmontazh trust. Since 1972 he served in state security agencies. He was the secretary of the party committee.

At the beginning of the 1990s, V. A. Sobolev headed the Tomsk department of the KGB. At the end of 1994, he became deputy director of the Federal Counterintelligence Service (FSK, since April 1995 - Federal Security Service, FSB of the Russian Federation). Since 1995, he repeatedly traveled to Chechnya and supervised the activities of the special services on the territory of the republic. He supervised the activities of the counterintelligence support department for strategic facilities and the counterintelligence department. In 1997, he was appointed first deputy director of the FSB. Since July 1998, he worked under the leadership of Vladimir Putin, who in August 1999 became first prime minister, and then, in March 2000, president of the Russian Federation.

In March 1999, V.V. Putin was appointed Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation and transferred V.A. Sobolev to the position of his deputy. In his new post, V. A. Sobolev headed the department of state and public security. He took part in the development of the concept of information security of the Russian Federation, adopted in the fall of 2000.

On July 17, 2007, President Putin V.V. relieved Ivanov from the post of Secretary of the Security Council and appointed V.A. Sobolev to perform his duties.

On May 12, 2008 - a few days after Dmitry Medvedev officially took office as President of Russia, and V.V. Putin became Prime Minister of the Russian Federation - it became known that Nikolai Patrushev, who left the post of Director of the FSB, became the new Secretary of the Russian Security Council . Sobolev V.A. after that continued to work in the Security Council as deputy secretary. He left this post in March 2012.

On December 11, 2012, he was unanimously elected President of the Association of Counterintelligence Veterans (ROO Vetkon).

Sobolev V.A. has the rank of Colonel General. He was awarded the Order of Courage, "For Services to the Fatherland" III and IV degrees and "For Military Merit", as well as a number of medals. He is an honorary employee of counterintelligence agencies and a laureate of the Yuri Andropov Prize "For outstanding contribution to ensuring the security of the Russian Federation." Married, father of two daughters.

Sobolev, Valentin Alekseevich

Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation since April 1999 (he was reappointed in this position in May 2000); born on March 11, 1947 in the village of Gudri-Olum, Kyzyl-Atrek region, Turkmen SSR; Graduated from the Moscow Civil Engineering Institute named after. V.V. Kuibyshev in 1969; He began his career as a worker in the construction and installation department of the Ashgabatstroy trust (Ashgabat, Turkmen SSR); from 1969 he worked as a foreman at the Ashgabat installation trust "Turkmensantehmontazh"; since 1972, he served in state security agencies (KGB of the USSR, Ministry of Security of Russia, Federal Grid Company of Russia) in various positions; from 1994 - Deputy Director of the Federal Counterintelligence Service (FSK), then until April 1999 - First Deputy Director of the Federal Security Service (FSB) of the Russian Federation; Colonel General; awarded the title "Honorary Counterintelligence Officer", awarded the Order of Courage and the Order of Military Merit; married, has two daughters.

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The FSB generals who currently lead this service form the basis of this key structure, which is designed to ensure the national security of the state. in its current state, it was formed in 1995, since then its leaders have received the closest attention.

Director of the FSB of Russia

Only FSB generals currently hold key leadership positions in this department. There are no lower-ranking military personnel in the positions of either first deputies or deputy service directors.

The Russian FSB is currently headed by Alexander Vasilievich Bortnikov. He has held this post since May 2008, after his predecessor Nikolai Platonovich Patrushev resigned.

Bortnikov was born in 1951 in the city of Molotov, which was the name of Perm at that time. He is a graduate of the Institute of Railway Transport Engineers, from which he graduated in Leningrad. In 1975 he graduated from the KGB Higher School. It was then that he began serving in state security agencies. Oversaw counterintelligence operations units. He remained in this area of ​​service even after the liquidation of the KGB and the formation of the FSB of Russia.

In 2003, Alexander Vasilievich Bortnikov headed the regional department for the Leningrad region and the city of St. Petersburg. Then he headed the economic security service working within the department. In 2006, he received the rank of Colonel General of the FSB. According to some reports, he received the next rank of army general a few months later - in December of the same year.

In 2008, he headed the department, simultaneously holding the post of chairman of the national. He is a member of various government and interdepartmental commissions on a wide range of issues.

Vladimir Kulishov

In order to get the most complete picture of the leadership of the FSB department, let us dwell on the personalities of the first deputy directors of this department. There are currently two of them in total. All of them are generals of the Russian FSB.

Vladimir Kulishov has the rank of army general. He has served as first deputy director since March 2013. At the same time, he heads the Border Service of the Russian Federation, which is also part of the FSB structure.

Kulishov Vladimir Grigorievich was born in the Rostov region in 1957. He studied at the Institute of Civil Aviation Engineers, which was based in Kyiv. After receiving a higher education diploma, he worked at a civil aviation plant.

He joined the structure of state security agencies in 1982. By that time, Vladimir Grigorievich Kulishov had already graduated from the KGB Higher School. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, he continued to serve in state security agencies. In 2000, he joined the central office of the Russian FSB.

Then for a year he headed the department for the Saratov region. Since 2004, he began to supervise the department for combating terrorism, and headed the FSB department for the Chechen Republic. Since 2008, he served as deputy director of the federal department. In 2013, he received the post of first deputy and headed the Border Service.

He served in Chechnya, has the Order of Military Merit and the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III degree.

Sergey Smirnov

The FSB general is another first deputy director of the department. He comes from Chita, where he was born in 1950. In his infancy, the family moved to Leningrad, where he spent his childhood and youth. At school he was a classmate of Boris Gryzlov (ex-Minister of Internal Affairs and ex-Chairman of the State Duma) and Nikolai Patrushev (ex-Director of the Russian FSB).

He received his higher education at the Bonch-Bruevich Electrical Engineering Institute, which was opened in Leningrad. During my student years I was also closely acquainted with Gryzlov, they studied together again. Started working at the Central Research Institute of Communications.

He joined the structure of the KGB of the USSR in 1974. Since 1975 he has been working in the Leningrad administration. He first held operational and then management positions.

In 1998, he received a position in the central office of the FSB. Headed the department of internal security. In 2000, he became deputy director of the FSB, and since 2003, first deputy. He has the rank of Army General.

First head of the department

Throughout Russian history, 7 people have led the federal department of the FSB. The very first in 1993 was Colonel General Nikolai Mikhailovich Golushko. At that time, the structure was just being formalized and was officially called the Federal Counterintelligence Service of the Russian Federation.

Golushko stayed in this post for only two months, after which he was appointed by President Boris Yeltsin as an adviser to the director of the FSB. During the years of Soviet power he headed the KGB of the Ukrainian SSR.

Stepashin - Director of the FSB

In March 1994, Lieutenant General Sergei Vadimovich Stepashin became head of the Federal Counterintelligence Service. Under him, the Federal Security Service was founded in April 1995. Formally, he became the first director of the FSB of Russia. True, he spent only two and a half months in this position.

After that, he did not get lost in high government positions. Stepashin was the Minister of Justice, headed and held the post of first deputy and until 2013 headed the Accounts Chamber. Currently he heads the supervisory board of a state corporation that promotes the reform of the Russian housing and communal services.

FSB leadership in the 90s

In 1995, Army General Mikhail Ivanovich Barsukov came to the post of director of the FSB. He has been in the KGB system of the Soviet Union since 1964. He was the commandant of the Moscow Kremlin, and acted as a witness during the detention of the Deputy Prime Minister of one of the inspirers of the State Emergency Committee.

In the 90s, Barsukov was often criticized by his colleagues. In particular, accusing him of low professional qualities. For example, according to the former Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Anatoly Sergeevich Kulikov, Barsukov’s entire service was spent in the Kremlin, he was responsible for the security of the top officials of the state. Many believed that Barsukov ended up at the head of the security service only thanks to Yeltsin’s security chief, Alexander Korzhakov, who had a certain influence on the president.

In June 1996, he resigned after a scandal during Yeltsin's election campaign. His name is closely connected with the detention of activists from the presidential election headquarters, Lisovsky and Evstafiev, who tried to carry out half a million dollars in a paper box.

Director Nikolay Kovalev

In 1996, the service was headed by FSB General Nikolai Dmitrievich Kovalev. Unlike his predecessors, he spent a little more than two years in this post. Nikolai Kovalev has served in state security agencies since 1974. He was appointed to the post of FSB director after a scandal related to alleged violations of the rules of currency transactions and the conduct of Boris Yeltsin's presidential campaign in 1996.

During his time leading the service, Nikolai Kovalev managed to establish productive work of the department. Its employees began to appear less often in the press due to various scandals.

After being released from office, he became the people's representative from the third to the seventh convocation inclusive. He is a member of the United Russia faction and heads the expert council of the Officers of Russia organization.

Future President

Kovalev was replaced in July 1998 by the future Russian President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. He was the only head of the department who by that time did not have a military rank. Putin was only a reserve colonel.

The future head of state found himself in the KGB system back in 1975, immediately after graduating from Leningrad State University. He ended up in the KGB by assignment.

Having become the head of the FSB, he appointed well-known Patrushev, Ivanov and Cherkesov as his deputies. Conducted a reorganization of the entire service. In particular, he abolished the economic counterintelligence department, and also eliminated the counterintelligence department for providing strategic facilities. Instead, he created six new departments. Achieved a significant increase in employee salaries and uninterrupted financing. It is interesting that Putin himself wished to be the first civilian director of the FSB, refusing the rank of major general, which Yeltsin proposed to give him.

Putin left the post of FSB director on August 9, becoming chairman of the government. Two days earlier, Chechen fighters under the command of Khattab and Basayev entered Dagestan. The creation of the Islamic State of Dagestan was proclaimed.

Already prime minister, Putin led the operation against the militants. In mid-September they were finally driven out of Dagestan.

Nikolay Patrushev

After Vladimir Putin moved to senior positions in the federal government, the FSB was headed by Nikolai Platonovich Patrushev. He held this post for 9 years.

Just during the period of his work there was a confrontation with militants and terrorists. The Federal Security Service began to occupy a key position in matters of ensuring the country's security.

Patrushev currently holds the post of Secretary of the Federal Security Council.

FSB General Ugryumov

Over the years, a large number of officers held the post of deputy director of the FSB. Perhaps the most notable of them was Admiral German Alekseevich Ugryumov. This is the only naval officer to hold such a high position.

Ugryumov is from Astrakhan and joined the Navy in 1967. In 1975 he found himself in the Soviet KGB system. Supervised a special department of the Caspian military flotilla. In the 90s, he became one of the initiators of the case against journalist Grigory Pasko, who was prosecuted for espionage.

As deputy director of the FSB, he oversaw the work of the Special Purpose Center. The famous special groups "Vympel" and "Alpha" belonged to this unit. Notable for carrying out counter-terrorism operations in the Chechen Republic. In particular, the release of Gudermes in 1999, the capture of one of the militant leaders Salman Raduev, and the release of hostages in the village of Lazorevsky are associated with his figure.

In May 2001, he was awarded the rank of admiral. The next day he died of a heart attack.

FSB general uniform

It is quite simple to distinguish the generals to whom our article is devoted by their form.

It was last changed in 2006. Now the uniform is a khaki color, distinguished by buttonholes and chevrons, as well as the cornflower blue color of the gaps on the shoulder straps.