Nikolai Patrushev

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Nikolai Platonovich Patrushev (Russian: Николай Платонович Патрушев) (born July 11, 1951) is the current Director of the Russian FSB, the successor organization of the KGB. He was born in Leningrad and graduated from Leningrad Shipbuilding Institute, where worked as an engineer at his department until 1974.

1 State Security career
- 1.1 KGB
- 1.2 FSB
2 External links

[edit] State Security career

[edit] KGB

Patrushev started his career at state security organs. After completing the KGB higher educational courses with the USSR Council of Ministers, he began to work at counter-intelligence section of the USSR UKGB Leningrad region. Patrushev later transferred to Ministry of State Security, Republic of Karelia in 1992.

[edit] FSB

Patrushev held an administrative position in the FSB from 1994 to 1998. He became the deputy chief of the president's administration of Russia in 1998. He served as the deputy director the department of economic safety FSB of Russia from October 1998, and from 1999 served as the first deputy director of Federal Security Service.

Patrushev was appointed as the director of FSB on August 9, 1999, following a presidential decree by Boris Yeltsin. His predecessor in this post was Vladimir Putin.

Patrushev holds the rank of Russian Army general and a PhD in law. Nikolai Patrushev has been the recipient of numerous national awards: the title of Hero of the Russian Federation, Honor of the Military Merits and 7 other medals.