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Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kruchkov
Владимир Крючков
Birth at
29 February 1924
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Vladimir Alexandrovich Kryuchkov was born on February 29, 1924 in Stalingrad. He began his career in 1941 as a factory worker, then became a Komsomol activist. In 1944-1946 he was the first secretary of the district committee and the second secretary of the city committee of the Komsomol in Stalingrad. In 1946-1951 he worked as an investigator and prosecutor; in 1949 he graduated from the All-Union Correspondence Law Institute. After graduating from the Higher Diplomatic School of the Ministry of
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Vladimir Alexandrovich Kryuchkov was born on February 29, 1924 in Stalingrad. He began his career in 1941 as a factory worker, then became a Komsomol activist. In 1944-1946 he was the first secretary of the district committee and the second secretary of the city committee of the Komsomol in Stalingrad. In 1946-1951 he worked as an investigator and prosecutor; in 1949 he graduated from the All-Union Correspondence Law Institute. After graduating from the Higher Diplomatic School of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR in 1954, Vladimir Kryuchkov was sent to diplomatic work, since 1955 he worked in the Embassy of the USSR in Hungary. During the Hungarian events of 1956, he was singled out by Ambassador Y.V. Andropov and invited later to his office of the Central Committee of the CPSU. Together with Andropov, Kryuchkov moved to work in the State Security Committee in 1967, becoming an assistant to the chairman of the KGB. In 1971, he became the first deputy chief (and later chief) of the First Main Directorate (intelligence) of the KGB of the USSR. Since 1978 he simultaneously held the post of deputy chairman of the KGB, in 1988 he became chairman of the KGB of the USSR, occupying it until August 21, 1991. After the August putsch, as a member of the State Emergency Committee, V. Kryuchkov was arrested and until 1992 was in the "Sailor's Silence". Currently retired. Author of memoirs "Personal business".