The last head of the KGB of the USSR Bakatin died

MOSCOW, August 1 The last chairman of the KGB of the USSR, Vadim Bakatin, died at the age of 85 , an informed source told RIA Novosti. «Vadim Bakatin died,» the agency's interlocutor said, without specifying details. Vadim Bakatin was born on November 6, 1937 in the city of Kiselevsk, Novosibirsk Region. He graduated from the Novosibirsk Civil Engineering Institute and worked in the construction industry until he switched to party work in 1973. He was the first secretary of the Kirov, and then the Kemerovo regional committee of the CPSU, was a member of the Central Committee of the party, in 1988 he was appointed Minister of the Interior. In 1991, he ran for the presidency of the RSFSR, took the last place out of six candidates. After the coup in August 1991, he headed the State Security Committee. In this post, Bakatin is best known for the fact that, with the sanction of the President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev, as a sign of goodwill, he handed over to the United States the original scheme for listening to the new building of the American embassy in Moscow. foreign intelligence and state security), the border troops were withdrawn from the committee. In January 1992, Boris Yeltsin dismissed Bakatin, after which he no longer held government positions. 199aac0606d428c05314bf5b902d5386.jpg» />August 19, 2021, 04:08 KGB veteran spoke about the leaks of secret reports for Gorbachev