The Force Awakens: who is behind the high-profile FSB special operations. New head of the FSB Economic Security Service. Why Korolev
The building of the FSB of the Russian Federation on Lubyanka Square (Photo: Oleg Kharseev/Kommersant)
On Wednesday, July 27, two high-ranking ICR employees detained in a bribery case have changed : They were charged. At the same time, the Basmanny Court searched the head Federal Customs Service Andrei Belyaninov in a smuggling case involving St. Petersburg businessman Dmitry Mikhalchenko. Belyaninov himself remained in the status of a witness, the presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
Behind the most high-profile criminal cases of recent times is a team of FSB officers led by General Sergei Korolev, who until recently headed the Internal Security Directorate (USB) of the FSB, and in early July received control of the Economic Security Service (SEB) of the FSB.
A native of St. Petersburg
In the early 2000s, Korolev served in the Economic Security Service of the St. Petersburg department of the FSB. In 2004, with the rank of major, he wrote a report on his transfer to the active reserve of the Federal Tax Service, Fontanka wrote.
Subsequently, he became an adviser to Anatoly Serdyukov, who held the post of Minister of Defense at that time. In the military department, Korolev oversaw the Main Intelligence Directorate. After Serdyukov’s resignation (he left his post in 2012), Korolev was appointed head of the CSS.
An RBC interlocutor close to the leadership of the special service says that Korolev has long had great ambitions, including in career terms.
The first high-profile cases
In February 2014, it was the Sixth Service that detained the heads of the Main Directorate of Economic Security and Anti-Corruption (GUEBiPK) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The operation was supervised by the deputy head of the CSS Oleg Feoktistov.
Former head of the Main Directorate of Economic Security and Anti-Corruption of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, General Denis Sugrobov, during the consideration of the investigation's request for arrest in the Basmanny Court. May 2014 (Photo: Anton Novoderezhkin/TASS)
For the Ministry of Internal Affairs, this confrontation ended with the arrest of several high-ranking employees who were put on trial, and layoffs in the GUEBiPK. Kolesnikov committed suicide.
The next high-profile criminal cases in which CSS officers were involved were investigations against the Governor of Sakhalin, Alexander Khoroshavin, and against the Governor of Komi, Vyacheslav Gaizer, and almost 20 other people. For the first time in Russian history the head of the region (Gaiser) was .
Fight against smuggling
In the fall of 2015, CSS officers began monitoring a St. Petersburg businessman. In March, he was detained and charged with smuggling alcohol. Companies associated with him also appear in the “Ministry of Culture case.”
“The FSB has accumulated a lot of material on Mikhalchenko, but the go-ahead came literally a month ago,” said an RBC source close to the St. Petersburg FSB department in March, when Mikhalchenko was arrested. The wiretapping of Mikhalchenko revealed all his business connections, notes another interlocutor in the intelligence service.
Businessman Dmitry Mikhalchenko in the Basmanny District Court. March 2016 (Photo: Andrey Nikerichev/AGN “Moscow”)
Mikhalchenko’s case is not the only case of smuggling that the Internal Security Service is dealing with. At the end of 2015, management became interested in the company's business. Among the persons involved in the investigation was the head of the 7th Department of Directorate “K” (it deals with counterintelligence support in the credit and financial sphere) of the FSB Economic Security Service, Vadim Uvarov.
Replacement in the FSO
The connection with Mikhalchenko affected the career of one of the country’s most senior security officials -.
Murov worked for several years with Mikhalchenko’s business partner Nikolai Negodov in the regional department of the FSB. Murov, Mikhalchenko, Negodov lived in the same village on the shores of Lake Valdai in the Novgorod region.
At the end of May, by the decision of President Murov. Press secretary of the head of state Dmitry Peskov explained the dismissal Murova his advanced age.
Although there is talk of Murov’s imminent dismissal due to the expiration of the age limit for someone in the civil service, it was contacts with Mikhalchenko that became the decisive factor that pushed the political heavyweight to leave, a senior official noted in a conversation with RBC federal official and interlocutor close to the presidential administration.
Resigned FSO Director Evgeniy Murov (Photo: Maxim Shemetov/TASS)
Reshuffles in the FSB
Governor of the Kirov Region Nikita Belykh in the Basmanny Court. June 2016 (Photo: Sergey Vedyashkin/AGN “Moscow”)
The detention of Belykh was not previously agreed upon with the country's leadership, insists RBC's interlocutor close to the intelligence service. However, according to him, the actions of the operatives fit into the general policy of “cleansing the ranks” in the run-up to the elections.
RBC's interlocutors close to the Kremlin confirmed to RBC that for many in the presidential administration the case against Belykh came as a surprise.
Investigators' case
In mid-July, operatives of the Economic Security Service, which by this time had already been headed by Korolev, detained high-ranking employees of the Investigative Committee, including the head of the department of interdepartmental interaction and the agency’s own security, Mikhail Maksimenko, whom RBC sources close to the intelligence service, the Chairman of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin.
According to Novaya Gazeta, the FSB Counterintelligence Service began working on security forces in connection with the case of thief in law Shakro Molodoy at the beginning of the year. But now this case is being promptly accompanied by the SEB, led by Korolev.
The official representative of the Investigative Committee, Vladimir Markin, and the chairman of the department, Alexander Bastrykin, did not comment on the arrests for 24 hours, after which they called the arrests of the investigators “self-purification” of the Investigative Committee.
Two of RBC's FSB interlocutors insist that Bastrykin was informed about the criminal case at the last moment.
Searches at the Federal Customs Service
On July 26, FSB operatives, together with employees of the Investigative Committee, unexpectedly visited the home and office of Belyaninov, as well as his subordinates. According to ICR representative Vladimir Markin, investigative actions took place within the framework of the Mikhalchenko case - the same one that started the CSS under Korolev.
Head of the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation Andrey Belyaninov (Photo: Vladimir Fedorenko/RIA Novosti)
Belyaninov remained in the status of a witness, but a high-ranking federal official and an RBC interlocutor close to the leadership of the FSB said that he wrote a letter of resignation at the beginning of the year.
The security forces' claims against Belyaninov are related to the investigation of several criminal cases of smuggling, according to two RBC interlocutors in the FSB. According to them, an important factor was the change of leadership in the Economic Security Service of the FSB (it is this unit that is responsible for the Federal Customs Service).
Whose initiative
“First expansion and suppression of competitors, and then full shift leadership - [this is how] the situation is developing in the key department of economic security of the FSB, which at first, together with the Internal Security Service, the FSB destroyed GUEBiPK MIA (Sugrobov case ), and then the entire management team changed. With some inevitable elements of reactivity, all this gives the impression of a complex, pre-built combination,”
Behind the most high-profile criminal cases of recent times is a team of FSB officers led by General Sergei Korolev, who until recently headed the department’s Internal Security Directorate (USB) of the FSB, and in early July received the Economic Security Service (SEB) of the FSB under his command, said
RBC.
In the early 2000s, Korolev served in the third department of the Economic Security Service of the FSB, which oversaw law enforcement agencies. In those days they looked at it practically as a pension, Fontanka wrote the other day.
A few years later, news reached St. Petersburg - Korolev became an adviser to the Minister of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov, while overseeing the Main Directorate of the General Staff, which is more often called the GRU.
Soon, unexpectedly for everyone, Korolev became the head of the Main Directorate of Internal Security of the FSB of Russia. In the police environment, security officers are called watchmen. It turns out he was watching the watchmen.
Under Korolev, the Sixth Service became one of the most significant units in the CSS. According to RBC's interlocutor, close to the USB, it was created in 2008, it includes only about 35 people. The service is headed by Ivan Tkachev, writes RBC.
Of course, before detaining governors and other high-ranking officials, the head of the service coordinates the position with FSB Director Bortnikov. And with such questions you need to approach the president. The resolution should be the same everywhere: “To work.” Signature, date. Which, in fact, means – in Lefortovo, notes Fontanka.
The Economic Security Service is one of the key units in the FSB, explains retired FSB Major General, member of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy Alexander Mikhailov. According to him, in the USSR, in the context of confrontation with the West, main role played by employees directly involved in counterintelligence, but in recent years the importance of the SEB has increased markedly.
The structure of the FSB SEB is not officially disclosed. As Novaya Gazeta wrote, the Economic Security Service includes seven departments: for counterintelligence support of the credit and financial system (directorate “K”), industrial enterprises, transport, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the Ministry of Justice, for the fight against smuggling and drug trafficking, organizational and analytical management and administrative service.
From 2004 to 2008, the SEB was headed by Alexander Bortnikov, who moved from this post directly to the post of director of the FSB. Yakovlev became Bortnikov's successor in the leadership of the SEB. On July 8, Vladimir Putin appointed a new head of one of the key divisions of the FSB - the Economic Security Service. It was Sergei Korolev.
The most notorious criminal cases of the Sixth Service
June 24, 2016. In a Moscow restaurant, Nikita Belykh, the governor of the Kirov region, former chairman of the Union of Right Forces, was caught red-handed while receiving 400 thousand euros.
July 13, 2016. The court authorized the arrest of Zakhary Kalashov (Shakro Molodoy), who was charged with extortion and organizing a criminal community.
On the night of July 18-19. The deputy head of the Main Investigative Directorate for Moscow, Denis Nikandrov, the head of the Main Directorate for Interdepartmental Cooperation and Internal Security of the Investigative Committee, Mikhail Maksimenko, and his deputy, head of the Internal Security Department, Alexander Lamonov, were detained.
July 26, 2016. Investigators found about 10 million rubles and hundreds of thousands of dollars and euros during a search of the house head of the Federal Customs Service RF Andrey Belyaninov. Searches were also carried out in the offices of Belyaninov’s deputies, Andrei Strukov and Ruslan Davydov. During the searches, items and documents relevant to the investigation of the criminal case of alcohol smuggling were seized.
As it became known today, July 28, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed an order on the resignation of the head of the Federal Customs Service Andrei Belyaninov.
Let us note, following Fontanka, that Khoroshavin, Gaizer, Belykh are the governor’s power. Sugrobov is a policewoman. Pirumov - ministerial. Mikhalchenko is capitalist. Citizen Shakro is a mafia member. Today we reached the Investigative Committee and the Federal Customs Service.
Reshuffles in the FSB
In June, the head of department “K” (part of the SEB structure), Viktor Voronin, the immediate superior of Vadim Uvarov, lost his post.
The CSS had information that Voronin was connected with Mikhalchenko, two interlocutors close to the CSS management told RBC. Voronin’s resignation occurred as a result of an internal audit carried out at the SEB by employees of the Internal Security Service.
Soon after the first audit, the Department of Internal Security began a second audit. Upon its completion, the head of the SEB, Yuri Yakovlev, resigned.
A few weeks before Yakovlev’s resignation, Korolev became the main contender for his place, interlocutors in the special service told RBC. It was he who was appointed head of the SEB on July 8.
Now reshuffles are continuing in the FSB, but at the level of mid-level operatives of the Economic Security Service. According to one of RBC’s interlocutors in the FSB, close to the leadership of the special service, the scale of the dismissals is still difficult to assess, but it is already known that about ten people will lose their posts, about half of whom will be additionally checked in connection with possible violations of the law.
Another RBC interlocutor in the intelligence service said that at least one person from among the SEB employees left the country. According to another RBC source, one of the operatives of the Economic Security Service was fired on July 8 - the day when the decree appointing a new head of the Economic Security Service was signed.
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At the trial of Ulyukaev Oleg Feoktistov
behaved arrogantly and answered questions
did not answer journalists Photo: dailystorm.ru
Of average height, strong build, short-haired, middle-aged man, dark suit, white shirt, but without a tie, silent and arrogant - this is how he first appeared before journalists covering the most high-profile trial of this fall, the case of extorting a bribe by Minister Alexei Ulyukaev from the head of Rosneft » Igor Sechin. No one was able to get an exclusive interview in court with Oleg Feoktistov, one of the main witnesses for the prosecution - the general ignored questions, looked down on him, with poorly concealed disdain. But still he felt uncomfortable in the spotlight - he visibly blushed under the lenses of television cameras. The general gave his testimony behind closed doors.
Little is known about Feoktistov. According to open data, he is 53 years old (born in 1964 in the Moscow region), a graduate of the FSB Academy, fought in Afghanistan. While serving in the army, he became friends with KGB military counterintelligence officer Sergei Shishin, who later became the head of the special forces of the FSB Internal Security Service, and then the head of the FSB Economic Support Service. Feoktistov owes his career at Lubyanka to him, the intelligence service explained earlier.
As the source says NT, close to the FSB, Feoktistov personally selected people for the “Six” - the 6th service for managing the FSB’s own security, which he founded. Preference was given to those who had experience serving in combat points, and therefore many had Chechen campaigns behind them. “He took on those who were used to not being afraid and who had nothing to lose,” says the publication’s interlocutor, “the subordinates were devoted to him.”
But at the same time, over the past 10–12 years, he also made a huge number of enemies, when the “Six” conducted the most high-profile cases. Now all of them can also take advantage of the situation and the weakening of his positions, a source from Lubyanka suggests.
Bortnikov's folder
At the time of leaving the FSB (August 2016), General Feoktistov rose to the rank of acting head of the Internal Security Directorate. The functions of the head of the department were transferred to him after his immediate superior, Sergei Korolev, who headed the Economic Security Service (ESS) of the FSB, was promoted.
Last summer there were major reshuffles in the FSB, and colleagues expected that Feoktistov would head the FSB without the prefix acting. But instead, he left Lubyanka altogether.
Former head of the Federal Customs Service Andrey
Belyaninov Photo: cupofnews.ru
There are several versions of the general's unexpected departure. - the excessive, as it seemed to many, including at the very top, activity of the “Six”, which had previously earned it fame in office circles. Putin did not like the searches of the then head of the Federal Customs Service, Andrei Belyaninov, who kept tens of thousands of dollars in shoe boxes, and now, since December 1, 2017, the head of the Eurasian Development Bank.
Putin criticized the “interference in the personal life” of his longtime close associate several months after the searches - at the final press conference in December 2016. But the criticism mainly concerned the PR support of the searches - they were given too much publicity, despite the fact that the ex-head of the Federal Customs Service never became a person under investigation. PR was handled by the press service of the Investigative Committee, headed by General Vladimir Markin. In a word, all this could not be the only reason for the dismissal of the powerful head of the Six.
FSB Director Alexander
Bortnikov Photo: kremlin.ru
Another version seems to the interlocutors NT, close to the FSB, more plausible. Namely: Feoktistov’s influence and trust in him at the peak of his career was so great that the head of the Six acquired the right to report personally to Vladimir Putin, bypassing FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov. “But a structure like the FSB cannot have two leaders, Bortnikov, of course, didn’t like this, and one day he himself came with a report - already about Feoktistov - to the president,” says the publication’s interlocutor.
What exactly was in Bortnikov’s folder, the source can only guess. But it was after this, according to the publication’s interlocutor, ICR officers close to Feoktistov, after which the entire team of “General Ficus,” also nicknamed “Sechin’s special forces,” began to fall apart.
“For us, the departure of General Feoktistov (from the FSB) is like a bolt from the blue,” he told a correspondent then NT an employee of the 6th Internal Security Service of the FSB, who spoke on condition of anonymity. - and we were behind him like behind a stone wall.”
Feoktistov’s influence and trust in him was so great that the head of the Six acquired the right to report personally to Putin, bypassing FSB Director Bortnikov. But a structure like the FSB cannot have two leaders, Bortnikov, of course, did not like this, and one day he himself came in with a report.”
Sechin and Feokstistov
"Special Forces" at work
The “Six” became the core of the team, which was dubbed “Sechin’s special forces.” This informal “special forces” included not only employees of the 6th service of the FSB’s own security department - their own people gradually appeared in other law enforcement agencies, in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Investigative Committee, as well as in state corporations. Later they played their role when the “Six” prepared attacks on certain officials.
According to retired KGB Major General Alexei Kondaurov, the story of the “Sechin special forces” indicates the degradation not even of the special services, but of the state as a whole. “The situation when such an influential person as he (Sechin) actually “privatizes” the management of the FSB in his own interests was absolutely impossible during the years of my service and completely unacceptable,” the general is indignant.
One of the first major cases of the Six was the defeat of the Federal Drug Control Service ( Federal service on drug trafficking control. - NT) in 2007. Then the director of this service, Viktor Cherkesov, who rose to the post of deputy director of the FSB, lost his position, but fell out of favor in the mid-2000s. The “Sechin special forces” have dozens of high-profile stories, almost all the high-profile cases and arrests of the last 10 years (until mid-2016): the governor of the Sakhalin region Alexander Khoroshavin, the head of the Komi Republic Vyacheslav Gaizer, the governor of the Kirov region Nikita Belykh, imprisonment of almost all of them leadership of the GUEB and PC of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Main Directorate of Economic Security and Anti-Corruption).
In the last case there was an episode showing that Feoktistov personally came up with the ingenious combinations of the Six. The head of the GUEB and PC, General Denis Sugrobov, was convicted of the fact that his agents, disguised as businessmen, offered bribes to officials. That is, in essence, they provoked the commission of official crimes. The most recent provocation of the police was an attempt to “divorce” Feoktistov’s deputy, the deputy head of the 6th service, Igor Demin. The idea to take Demin into development was given to Sugrobov by his friend and also an FSB employee, Colonel Dmitry Senin.
General of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Denis Sugrobov was accused of
what his agents, disguised as businessmen, offered
bribes to officials, Moscow, May 8, 2014
Photo: Anton Novoderezhkin / TASS
Senin provoked Sugrobov on the direct instructions of Feoktistov, the publication’s interlocutor claims: “He worked for Feoktistov, and at the same time went on hikes, rafted down rivers with Sugrobov and convinced him to start developing the FSB.”
Then Feoktistov won: Sugrobov’s entire team ended up behind bars, some did not live to see trial, and the police general was given 22 years in prison (his case is now being reviewed in the Supreme Court).
The organizer of the “provocation of provocateurs,” Colonel Senin, is wanted - according to official version, for desertion. According to the source NT, close to the FSB, Senin decided to go on the run because he was afraid of becoming involved in the case of his relative - the now famous Colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Dmitry Zakharchenko, from whom assets worth 9 billion rubles were seized.
The “Six” became the core of the team, which was dubbed “Sechin’s special forces.” This informal “special forces” included not only employees of the 6th service of the FSB Internal Security Directorate - their own people gradually appeared in other law enforcement agencies, in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, as well as in state corporations
Team breakup
A year ago, several of Feoktistov’s subordinates, following his transfer to Rosneft, resigned from the authorities, the source says NT, close to the special service (he did not name the exact number of those who left). Others went to serve in the “K” department, says the publication’s second interlocutor, close to the leadership of the FSB.
During the global reshuffle a year ago, he managed to head this division former manager“Six”, Feoktistov’s longtime ally, is Ivan Tkachev. But his position remains precarious; he has too many ill-wishers in Lubyanka, they say NT two sources in the law enforcement system.
This position implies a general rank, but Tkachev is still a colonel, says one of the publication’s interlocutors. This is another confirmation that Tkachev is not in favor. According to interlocutors NT, a compromise solution is being discussed - sending Tkachev to the region with the assignment of a general position. Formally, this would be an increase, but in reality it would be the vacancy of a leadership position in the “K” department and the complete loss of influence by Feoktistov.
After the initiation of the “Shakro case,” the head of the central regional department of the Investigative Committee in Moscow, Alexey Kramarenko, lost his position. He is also a person from Feoktistov’s team, the source claims NT, close to the leadership of the FSB. Immediately after the arrests of ICR officers in this case in July 2016, Kramarenko was removed from office and interrogated as a witness. And in March 2017, it became known that he had moved to work in the legal department of the same Rosneft.
According to interlocutors NT, a compromise solution is being discussed - sending Tkachev to the region with the assignment of a general position
Show on Feoktistova
Some of the people from Feoktistov’s team ended up in custody. Including the head of the internal security department of the ICR, Colonel Mikhail Maksimenko. He is considered close not only to the head of the department, Alexander Bastrykin, but also to General Feoktistov. Two sources say this NT, close to the FSB.
Now Maksimenko, his deputy Alexander Lamonov and the deputy head of the capital’s main directorate of the Investigative Committee Denis Nikandrov are accused of receiving a bribe from Shakro Molodoy (Zakhar Kalashov). General Nikandrov, like Maksimenko, is enrolled in Feoktistov’s team. During his service in the Investigative Committee, he conducted investigations using operational materials that the 6th Service brought to him. For example, he was the head of the investigation team in the case of underground casinos in the Moscow region, as Novaya Gazeta wrote about.
According to a source close to the FSB, these officers who were close to Feoktistov in the past are still in pre-trial detention centers, and they may be required to testify against the general who left the FSB.
Maksimenko himself has repeatedly stated in court that FSB operatives are asking prisoners to testify against their colleagues, without naming names. With similar proposals, says the source NT, close to the FSB, come to other people involved in high-profile cases.
Changing favorites
Interlocutors close to the FSB NT They agree that difficult times have come for the Six. Feoktistov’s longtime opponent, the head of the “M” department, Sergei Alpatov, has strengthened his position (this department is also part of the Economic Security Service and is involved in investigating cases against law enforcement officers). His team at Lubyanka is called “Alpatovsky”. It was they who carried out the investigation of high-ranking ICR police officers who found themselves behind bars in the Shakro case - Maksimenko, Lamonov and Nikandrov.
About the developments of the “Six” for Last year I can't hear anything at all. High-profile arrests are taking place on the basis of materials from other divisions of the FSB: now “Z” - the service for the protection of the Constitution - is leading the Soviet time it was the famous 5th Directorate of the KGB of the USSR. For example, in the case of the artistic director of the Gogol Center, Kirill Serebryannikov, operational work is supervised by the 2nd Internal Security Service of the FSB - the service for the protection of the Constitution (Z). She also studied in St. Petersburg, which has now been deprived of a teaching license and evicted from the building. She was also involved in operational development in the case of high treason, Deputy Head of the Center information security(CIB FSB) Sergei Mikhailov.
The mission failed
According to the interlocutor NT, close to the leadership of the FSB, arrest and criminal case of the former minister economic development Alexey Ulyukaev was pursuing the goal of saving the military general.
The development and detention of an official of this level should have opened the way for Feoktistov back to the Lubyanka, but in reality it was a complete failure. General Feoktistov led the entire operation to transfer the money, but now the case is falling apart in court. Sources NT, close to the government and the presidential administration, are sure: now if Ulyukaev is convicted, he will be given a suspended sentence or a minor one, counting the months spent under house arrest as time served.
The general worked at Rosneft for less than six months. In March 2017, Sechin himself confirmed that Feoktistov left the company and “returned to military service" But no return to Lubyanka actually followed. The general was unemployed for several months, refusing offers that he considered inappropriate to his status. And only recently he found a new job, becoming an adviser to the HR director of Peresvet Bank, which turned out to be bankrupt, but was saved and is now undergoing rehabilitation through the All-Russian Regional Development Bank, which belongs to Rosneft.
In March 2017, Sechin himself confirmed that Feoktistov left the company and “returned to military service.” But no return to Lubyanka actually followed. The general was unemployed for several months and only recently became an adviser to the director of personnel at the Peresvet bank, which was on the verge of bankruptcy.
Bulldogs wrestling under the carpet
“What we see in the latest reshuffles in the FSB is a fight between bulldogs under the carpet,” says retired KGB colonel and former deputy chairman of the Duma Security Committee Gennady Gudkov. “This is the usual struggle for positions and influence, a struggle for the feeding trough.”
According to Gudkov, there are no criteria for assessing the work of the special services: “They are very closed and are not accountable to any parliamentary commissions,” states Gudkov. And the noisy arrests are the result of the struggle between various towers in the ruling elite. “(All these high-profile criminal cases) are a struggle between clans for the right to control economic flows. We have no real fight against corruption,” sums up Gudkov.
Golushko Nikolay Mikhailovich
He devoted his life to serving in state security agencies. He worked in a structural unit of counterintelligence of the USSR, Ukraine and Russia. 1992 became a landmark year, Golushko was awarded the rank of Colonel General. He first served as director of the Federal Security Service from 1993 to 1994. In Yeltsin's government he was approved as Minister of Security. He was awarded three orders and six medals, three of which were anniversary ones.
Russian politician. He was appointed second head of the security agencies, where Stepashin worked from 1994 to 1995 with the rank of Colonel General. Collaborated with the government of Yeltsin, Putin and Medvedev. Over the years he was Minister of Justice, Minister of Internal Affairs, Chairman of the Accounts Chamber and the Government of the Russian Federation. Awarded dozens of orders and medals.
A prominent figure in the government and military fields. Graduated military school, then studied at the Frunze Military Academy. He worked as director of the FSB from 1995 to 1996. Having received a leadership position, Barsukov was promoted to army general. He began his activities in the KGB and joined the Security Committee in 1964. In the 90s, he was appointed commandant of the Moscow Kremlin. Since 1995, he has been a member of the Russian Security Council. In 1997, Mikhail Ivanovich made a decision and resigned.
Along with his work in the special services, he is a prominent political figure. He headed the FSB from 1996 to 1998. In 1998, he was awarded the rank of Army General. Member of the State Duma of the third convocation. Currently, he continues to be active and holds positions in the government. He is a member of the Duma for ensuring security and combating corruption, and heads the State Duma in the OSCE parliamentary organization. After Kovalev, Vladimir Putin came to the leadership of the FSB; he is the only director with a military rank: colonel.
He was director of the FSB for a long time, from 1999 to 2008. The year 2001 became important; Patrushev was promoted to army general. And a year before the event - Hero of Russia. Patrushev was appointed Secretary of the Security Council in 2008. Two years earlier, Nikolai Platonovich was called one of Putin’s successors and a presidential candidate. He received dozens of state awards, including medals from foreign countries.
He has headed the leadership of the FSB since 2008. Two years before his appointment, Bortnikov became an army general. He holds the post of chairman in charge of the national anti-terrorism cabinet. Bortnikov works as the head of the Council of Security Agencies. Included in the permanent number of participants in the Russian Security Council. During his work he was awarded 8 orders.
FSB generals - first deputy directors
Zorin graduated from the Pedagogical Institute and began his career as a physics teacher in the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. In 1964 he joined the KGB. He holds the rank of Colonel General of the FSB. From 1995 to 1997 he was first deputy director of the FSB. Since 1995, he has held the position of head of the FSB Anti-Terrorism Center Russian Federation. Awarded orders, medals and badges of honor.
Klimashin Nikolay Vasilievich
A security officer, from 2004 to 2010 he was the first deputy director of the FSB. In 2009 he received the rank of army general. Over the years, Klimashin was a member of government commissions concerning security and disarmament issues. He is an active state adviser of the Russian Federation, 2nd class.
An employee of Russian state security agencies. Since 2013, he has been First Deputy Director of the FSB. He was awarded the rank of army general. Over the years, he was the head of the department for combating terrorism, was in the leadership of the FSB in the Chechen Republic and in the apparatus of the National Anti-Terrorism Committee. Awarded orders, medals and badges.
Pronichev Vladimir Egorovich
He headed the FSB Border Service from 2003 to 2013, a prominent figure in the domestic intelligence services. In 2002 he received the title of Hero of the Russian Federation, and in 2005 - the rank of army general. He worked in the border troops and the FSB, in 1999 he received the post of first deputy director of the FSB. He was one of the leaders of the operation to free hostages at the Dubrovka theater in 2002 (Nord Ost).
From 1994 to 1997, he served as First Deputy Director of the FSB. He holds the rank of Colonel General of the FSB. In Putin's government he was Deputy Minister of Security and Minister of Foreign Affairs. From 2004 to 2011, he served as the special representative of the president on international cooperation in the fight against terrorists. In 2005, he received the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russia.
An employee of the Russian Federal Security Service. He has served in the authorities since 1974. He has held the rank of Army General since 2006. In 2001, he became the head of the FSB for St. Petersburg and Leningrad region. Two years later he received the post of first deputy director of the FSB. He is an honorary foreign intelligence officer and has been awarded orders and medals testifying to his services to the fatherland.
Sobolev Valentin Alekseevich
A figure in the security agencies of both the USSR and the Russian Federation. He holds the rank of Colonel General of the FSB. He began working for the State Security Committee in 1972, and two years later he graduated from the FSB Higher School. From 1997 to 1999, he served as First Deputy Director of the FSB. Over the years, he held the positions of head of the FSB for combating terrorism, and was Deputy Secretary of Security of the Russian Federation. In 2012, he was appointed President of Veterans of Counterintelligence.
Prominent statesman, began his career working in the authorities investigative committee. He holds the rank of reserve colonel general and police general. He was the director of the drug trafficking service. Entered State Duma sixth convocation from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. He worked in the Federal Security Bodies, from 1998 to 2000 he served as Deputy Director of the FSB.
FSB generals – deputy directors
He worked as Deputy Director of the FSB from 2002 to 2005. He was awarded the rank of Colonel General. From 2002 to 2004 he was the head of the Inspection Department. He was one of the leaders of the operational headquarters that freed hostages during the terrorist attack at the Beslan school in 2004. Was sent to the reserve of the Federal Security Service in 2005.
Bespalov Alexander Alexandrovich
He worked in the border troops and collaborated with state security agencies since 1961. He was deputy chief and head of the KGB for the Transcaucasian district. He worked as the head of the 8th department of the KGB of the USSR. After the collapse Soviet Union remained in the organs. In 1995, he was awarded the rank of Colonel General. From 1995 to 1999, he served as Deputy Director of the FSB.
Public and statesman. He holds the rank of Colonel General of the FSB. He worked as Deputy Director of the Federal Security Service from 2006 to 2008. Since 2016, he has been heading the Federal Customs Service of Russia. Served as the President's official representative on Northwestern district, Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.
From 2005 to 2013, he served as Deputy Director of the FSB. He was awarded the rank of Colonel General. Serves in state security agencies since 1971. He has repeatedly expressed the opinion that the main task of the FSB is the fight against terrorism. To do this, it is necessary to constantly improve and modernize the weapons of the Russian armed forces.
Bykov Andrey Petrovich
He graduated from the Bauman Higher School and worked in state security agencies since 1966. He was deputy chief and head of the Operational and Technical Department of the KGB. Then he joined the FSB. He worked as deputy director from 1994 to 1996. Subsequently, he was a member of the directors of Rostelecom and Rosvooruzhenie. He holds the rank of Colonel General.
Gorbunov Yuri Sergeevich
Wears military rank Colonel General of Justice. He worked as Deputy Director of the FSB from 2005 to 2015. The main position held is State Secretary. He began working in security agencies in 1977, before that he worked at a research institute studying automatic systems. He is a Doctor of Law and has state awards.
Grigoriev Alexander Andreevich
Prominent statesman, led Federal agency according to internal reserves from 2001 to 2008, until death. He held the military rank of Colonel General. From 1998 to 2001 he served as adviser to the director of the FSB. Participated in military operations in Afghanistan. Awarded 4 orders and 2 medals (one of them was awarded by the government of Kyrgyzstan).
Ezhkov Anatoly Pavlovich
He holds the rank of Colonel General. Prominent figure in state security agencies. From 2001 to 2003 he worked as the head of the FSB for the North Caucasus District. From 2001 to 2004 he was Deputy Director of the FSB. Sent into retirement after militants attacked the Central Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia. Subsequently, he collaborated with government agencies at Sibur, where he managed the security system.
Zhdankov Alexander Ivanovich
Prominent statesman. Awarded the rank of lieutenant general. From 2001 to 2004 he worked as Deputy Director of the FSB. He was the head of the department responsible for protecting the constitutional order and combating terrorism. Since 2007, he was appointed auditor of the Accounts Chamber of Russia. He has many awards: orders, medals, memorial signs.
Zaostrovtsev Yuri Evgenievich
He holds the rank of Colonel General of the FSB. He worked as Deputy Director of the Federal Security Service from 2000 to 2004. He was the head of the economic security department. From 2004 to 2007 he worked as Deputy Chairman of Vnesheconombank. Since 1998, he has been an acting adviser to the President, 1st class.
This is a prominent statesman. He served as Deputy Director of the FSB from 1999 to 2000. He holds the rank of lieutenant general. For eight years, from 2008 to 2016, he served as director civil service on drug trafficking control. He was the chairman of the state anti-drug committee. Since 2012, he has been considered an active state adviser to the President, 1st class.
Political and military figure, began his work during the USSR. He holds the rank of Colonel General, but is in the reserves. From 1998 to 1999 he was Deputy Director of the FSB. From 2001 to 2007 – Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation. He was awarded dozens of orders, and in 2006 he became a laureate of the national award “Russian of the Year”. Currently he is the Presidential Representative on Environmental Affairs.
Activist of security agencies. He holds the rank of Colonel General. From 1999 to 2004 he was Deputy Director of the FSB. The main position held is the head of the Department involved in analysis, forecasting and strategic planning. Komogorov also works as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Military Sports Foundation.
Kupryazhkin Alexander Nikolaevich
He took the post of Deputy Director of the FSB in 2011, and currently holds the same position. Awarded the rank of Colonel General. Kupryazkin has been working in state security agencies since 1983. He held the position of head of the FSB's internal security department. Awarded orders and medals.
Lovyrev Evgeniy Nikolaevich
He worked as Deputy Director of the FSB from 2001 to 2004. Lovyrev’s main position is the head of the Department responsible for the organizational work of the FSB with personnel. He holds the rank of Colonel General. He is an active member of the Presidium of the Civil Committee on Interaction with Law Enforcement Agencies.
Mezhakov Igor Alekseevich
He began his work in the State Security Committee of the USSR. Already in 1972 he became the head of the 5th Directorate of the KGB of Kazakhstan. In 1986 he moved to the KGB inspection department. In 1991, he was a member of the commission that investigated the August coup. He served as deputy director of the FSB for several months, from February to September 1995. Awarded the rank of lieutenant general.
Russian politician. He worked as Minister of Internal Affairs from 2004 to 2012. In 2005 he received the rank of army general. He began working in the KGB in 1981, before that he worked as a physics teacher in a small village. In 1999, he was appointed head of the FSB in charge of combating drug smuggling. From 2000 to 2002 he worked as Deputy Director of the FSB of Russia.
Osobenkov Oleg Mikhailovich
He holds the rank of Colonel General. He worked as Deputy Director of the FSB from 1996 to 1998. Headed the department of analysis, forecast and strategic development of the FSB. Since 1999, he has been a member of the board of Aeroflot. Currently, he is the head of the personnel department of Aeroflot OJSC.
Pereverzev Petr Tikhonovich
Colonel General of the reserve, began his journey as a simple cadet at a military school. Participated in Afghan war. From 2000 to 2004, he worked as Deputy Director of the FSB and served as Head of the Operations Support Department. He has a number of state awards - medals and orders.
Pechenkin Valery Pavlovich
He devoted thirty years of his life to working in the security agencies of the USSR and Russia. In the 90s he headed the department of the Ministry of Security for the Novosibirsk region. From 1997 to 2000 he worked as Deputy Director of the FSB. He was the head of the counterintelligence operations department and headed the counterintelligence department. Military rank: Colonel General.
Ponomarenko Boris Fedoseevich
Since 1968 he worked in the KGB. He holds the military rank of lieutenant general in reserve. From 1996 to 1997 he was Deputy Director of the Federal Security Service. In 1997, Ponomarenko was approved as Deputy Chairman of the Telecommunications Commission. Two years later, he was elected chairman of the Board of Directors of Svyazinvest.
Politician and entrepreneur. Worked in the KGB and FSB. In 1993 he received the rank of major general. From January to December 1994 he served as deputy director of the FSB. He worked as the head of the Federal Disaster Control Department for Moscow and the Moscow region. He worked as Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration. In 2015, he was appointed chairman of the council for the protection of intellectual property.
He has been working in security agencies since 1983. Military rank – lieutenant general. In 2015, Sirotkin was appointed deputy director of the FSB of the Russian Federation. He still holds this position. He works as the chief of staff of the National Anti-Terrorism Committee.
Soloviev Evgeniy Borisovich
From 1999 to 2001, he served as Deputy Director of the FSB of Russia. Military rank – Colonel General. Headed the Department of Organizational and Personnel Work of the Federal Security Service. In 2001, Solovyov was appointed Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia. In 2003 he became a laureate of the Andropov Prize.
Strelkov Alexander Alexandrovich
State security official. He holds the military rank of Colonel General. He worked as Deputy Director of the FSB from 1994 to 2000, and since 1997 he headed the Department for Supporting the Activities of the FSB. Today he is a member of the Council for Government Interaction with Associations of Veterans and Reserve Officers.
An employee of Russian state security agencies, a political figure in Russia. He holds the military rank of army general. Since 2015, he has held the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs on issues related to combating global terrorism. He began his career in security agencies in 1979. From 2000 to 2004 he worked as Deputy Director of the FSB. Involved in preparations for the 2014 Winter Olympics.
Activist of security agencies. He holds the military rank of Colonel General. He began his career in the KGB in 1983. He was the head of the FSB for the Novosibirsk region. Headed the Council of Chiefs of FSB Agencies for Siberian Federal District. From 2013 to 2015, he served as deputy head of the Russian FSB. He headed the National Anti-Terrorism Cabinet.
Timofeev Valery Alexandrovich
He began his work as an operational commissioner. He served as Deputy Director of the FSB from 1994 to 1995. Military rank – Colonel General. Worked as Deputy Minister of Education. Recognized as an Honored Worker of the Security Agencies of the Russian Federation. Awarded medals, orders and badges of honor.
Trofimov Anatoly Vasilievich
He served as Deputy Director of the FSB from 1995 to 1997. He worked as the head of the FSB in Moscow and the Moscow region. Military rank – Colonel General. Served in the KGB since 1962. He was shot in 2005, the killer was never found. At the time of the murder he was working as deputy director of the Finvest company.
State security officer. He died the day after he was awarded the rank of admiral. Since 1975, he served in counterintelligence agencies in the naval forces. He distinguished himself in the interethnic conflict in Transcaucasia. He was the leader of the participants in the withdrawal of the flotilla from the Caspian Sea to Baku after the collapse of the USSR. He served as deputy director of the FSB from 1999 to 2001, until his death. In 2000, Ugryumov was awarded the title of Hero of Russia.
Ushakov Vyacheslav Nikolaevich
Since 1975 he has worked in state security agencies. From 2003 to 2011, he worked as Deputy Director of the FSB, his main position being State Secretary. He was scandalously dismissed from the authorities in 2011 due to violations of official ethics. He holds the military rank of Colonel General. Ushakov oversaw the information support of the FSB of the Russian Federation, the public relations center of state security agencies.
Tsarenko Alexander Vasilievich
State security officer. He began his service back in Soviet times. He was deputy chief and head of the FSB for Moscow and the Moscow region. From 1997 to 2000, he was Deputy Director of the Russian FSB. From 2000 to 2011, he served as head of the special programs department of the President of Russia. Military rank: Colonel General.
Shalkov Dmitry Alexandrovich
A member of the Russian intelligence services and a prominent political figure. Since 2018, he was appointed head of the control department of the President of Russia. He holds the rank of Colonel General of Justice. In 2015, he was appointed to the position of deputy director of the Federal Security Service of Russia.
Shultz Vladimir Leopoldovich
State security officer, sociologist and social philosopher. He is a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy. He holds the military rank of Colonel General. From 2000 to 2003 he was Deputy Director of the FSB and Secretary of State. Shultz is an honorary counterintelligence officer and laureate of a government award in the field of science.
He has held the position of Deputy Director of the FSB from 2016 to the present. He began his career in the State Security Committee in 1987. Military rank – lieutenant general. He holds the post of Minister of the Russian Federation for Civil Defense and Disaster Relief. He is also a member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.
Heads of the FSB service
Conversation Sergey Orestovich
From 2009 to the present, he has held the position of head of the Fifth Service of the FSB. This is a service for operational information and international relations. He holds the rank of Colonel General of the FSB. Included in the European Union sanctions list since 2014. In 2014, he signed an agreement with an employee of the Serbian government on the mutual protection of classified information.
A member of the intelligence services of the USSR and the Russian Federation, he holds the rank of Colonel General. In 1979 he graduated from the KGB Higher Courses. He was the head of the FSB in Mordovia, then in Chelyabinsk region. In 2004, he was appointed head of the counter-terrorism service of the FSB of the Russian Federation. In 2008, he received the position of Deputy Director of the FSB for technical and export control.
Ignashchenkov Yuri Yurievich
From 2007 to 2013, he headed the FSB Control Service. He holds the military rank of Colonel General. He began his service in the KGB and served in various positions. In 2004, he was the head of the FSB Directorate for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, after which he was transferred to Moscow. Today he is the chairman of the All-Russian Physical Culture Society "Dynamo".
Kryuchkov Vladimir Vasilievich
Since 2012, the Colonel General has headed the FSB Control Service. He began working in security agencies in 1977 and graduated from the KGB Academy. He took his first steps in the FSB of St. Petersburg, climbing the ladder from an ordinary detective to the head of the economic security service. In 2002, he was appointed to the post of head of the FSB of the Lipetsk region.
Since 2015, Lieutenant General Menshchikov has been in charge of the 1st FSB Service, responsible for counterintelligence. He began working in security agencies in 1983. In 2014, Menshchikov was appointed by presidential decree as the chief responsible for managing special programs. Has state awards.
Sedov Alexey Semenovich
Russian intelligence officer, army general. Since 2006, he was elected to the post of head of the 2nd FSB Service. This is the service responsible for protecting the constitutional order and combating terrorism. Over the years, he was the head of the FSNP department for Moscow, deputy chairman of the State Drug Control Service, and head of the FSNP for the North-Western District.
Shishin Sergey Vladimirovich
Entered the KGB school in 1984. He made a difficult journey from an ordinary employee to a colonel general in the FSB. He took part in military operations in Afghanistan, and later in Chechnya and Dagestan. From 2002 to 2004, he was the head of the FSB’s own security. From 2004 to 2006, he served as deputy director of the FSB, heading the 7th service (this is the service that ensures the activities of the structure). Today Shishin works as senior vice president of VTB.
Yakovlev Yuri Vladimirovich
From 2008 to 2016 he worked as head of the 4th FSB Service. During his service, Yuri Vladimirovich was awarded the rank of army general. Now is general director Rosatom Corporation. Worked in security agencies from 1976 to 2016. In 2016, Putin signed a decree dismissing Yakovlev. Awarded many state awards.
Korolev Sergey Borisovich
Lieutenant General of the FSB, headed the 4th FSB Service from 2016 to May 2018. This Service ensured the economic security of the FSB. Korolev began serving in the FSB in 2000, in St. Petersburg. Then he became an adviser to the Minister of Defense, head of the FSB's own security department. Korolev’s team handled many high-profile cases, and during his time there were massive layoffs of security officials.