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General Vladimir Kryuchkov, chief of the KGB, gave the third-term Oklahoma Democrat a newly issued series of stamps honoring some of the spy agency's biggest..

Vladimir Kryuchkov

Army General, Chairman of the KGB of the USSR in 1988-1991.

Date of Birth: 29.02.1924
Country: Russia

Content:

Vladimir Kryuchkov: A Comprehensive Biography
Diplomatic and Party Career
KGB Service
Afghanistan Conflict
Head of the KGB and Political Bureau Member
August Coup and Imprisonment
Retirement and Legacy
Honors and Awards
Two Orders of Lenin

Vladimir Kryuchkov: A Comprehensive Biography

Early Life and Education

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kryuchkov was born in 1924.

Only six members of the member Supreme Soviet voted against the year-old Kryuchkov, who has been KGB chairman since last year and was deputy chairman for.

The Federal Security Service, the FSB, said Mr Kryuchkov had died in a Moscow hospital of an unspecified illness.

General Vladimir Kryuchkov, chief of the KGB, gave the third-term Oklahoma Democrat a newly issued series of stamps honoring some of the spy agency's biggest.

The answer may lie in the rapid advancement of Vladimir Kryuchkov, the chairman of the KGB, to the position of full member of the Politburo.

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During World War II, he worked as a layout designer in an artillery factory. He joined the Communist Party in 1944 and became involved in Komsomol, the youth wing of the Soviet Communist Party.

Kryuchkov studied law at the Saratov Law Institute (1945-1946) and later graduated from the All-Union Correspondence Institute of Law in 1949.

In 1954, he completed the Diplomatic Academy of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Diplomatic and Party Career

In 1954, Kryuchkov e