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Vladimir Alexandrovich Kryuchkov Владимир Александрович Крючков The KGB chairman who designed the August coup Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1924–2007
Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov Евгений Максимович Примаков The Arabist premier who turned his plane around over the Atlantic Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1929–2015
Viktor Fyodorovich Grushko Виктор Фёдорович Грушко The KGB operational deputy who bridged foreign intelligence and counterintelligence Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1930–2001
Yuri Sergeyevich Plekhanov Юрий Сергеевич Плеханов From KGB eavesdropping chief to head of leadership security, the man who pulled the coup's trigger Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1930–2002
Alexander Vladimirovich Vlasov Александр Владимирович Власов Creator of OMON and the last communist prime minister of Russia, defeated by Yeltsin Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1932–2002
Leonid Vladimirovich Shebarshin Леонид Владимирович Шебаршин Last chief of Soviet foreign intelligence Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1935–2012
Boris Karlovich Pugo Борис Карлович Пуго From Latvian KGB chief to USSR interior minister, a guardian of order shattered in the coup he backed Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1937–1991
Vadim Viktorovich Bakatin Вадим Викторович Бакатин The last KGB chairman, appointed to dismantle it Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1937–2022
Nikolai Mikhailovich Golushko Николай Михайлович Голушко The last chairman of the KGB of the Ukrainian SSR, who went on to serve the security services of three states: USSR, Ukraine, and Russia Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1937–2025