Nikolai Patrushev
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Nikolai Platonovich Patrushev (Russian: Никола́й Плато́нович Па́трушев) (born July 11, 1951) is a former Director of the Russian FSB, the successor organization to the KGB, and the current secretary of the Security Council of Russia. He was born in Leningrad and graduated from Leningrad Shipbuilding Institute in 1974, where he worked as an engineer at his department.
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[edit] Career
In 1974 he graduated from the Leningrad Ship-building Institute (now the State Marine Technical University of St.Petersburg); worked as an engineer.
He joined the KGB in 1975.
[edit] KGB
In 1974—1975 he attended the Higher Courses of the KGB with the USSR Council of Ministers in Minsk.
In 1975 he began to work at the counter-intelligence section of the KGB regional directorate for the Leningrad region; ended up being chief of the service for combatting contraband and corruption.
Upon finishing a year-long refresher courses at the Higher School of the KGB (now the FSB Academy), in June 1992, he was appointed Minister of State Security of Karelia which post he held until 1994.
[edit] FSK/FSB
In 1994, under Sergei Stepashin as Director of the FSK, he was appointed chief of the FSK Directorate of Internal Security. According to Yuri Felshtinsky, the transfer saved him from the ongoing criminal investigation in Karelia[1].
After Stepashin's resignation on June 30, 1995, Patrushev got a less senior post of deputy chief of the Organisation and Inspection Department of the FSB.
In May - August 1998 he was chief of the Control Directorate of the Presidential Staff; in August - October he was Deputy Chief of the Presidential Staff; in October 1998 he was appointed Deputy Director of the FSB and chief of the Directorate for Economic Security.
In April - August 1999 he was First Deputy Director of the FSB.
He was appointed Director of the FSB on August 9, 1999, by Boris Yeltsin's decree, replacing 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.
In January 2007, Patrushev joined the expedition of polar explorer Arthur Chilingarov, that flew on two helicopters to Antarctica and visited South Pole and Amundsen-Scott station.[2]
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ ФСБ взрывает Россию. by Alexander Litvinenko and Yuri Felshtinsky, Chapter 4.
- ^ Patrushev lands at South Pole during Antarctic expedition
[edit] External links
- FSB biography (in Russian)
- Biographies of the Fradkov Cabinet
- Biography by Vladimir Pribylovsky (in Russian).
| Preceded by ? |
Head of the Internal Security Department of FSB 1994 - May 31, 1998 |
Succeeded by Viktor Ivanov |
| Preceded by Vladimir Putin |
Chief of the Control Directorate of the Russian presidential administration May 31, 1998, – October 1998 |
Succeeded by Yevgeny Lisov |
| Preceded by Vladimir Putin |
Director of FSB August 9, 1999, – May 12, 2008 |
Succeeded by Alexander Bortnikov |
| Preceded by Valentin Sobolev (acting) |
Secretary of Security Council of Russia May 12, 2008 – present |
Incumbent |
