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The last head of the KGB of the USSR died in Moscow

The cause of Vadim Bakatin’s death has not been reported. It was only learned that he will be buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery in Moscow.

Vadim Bakatin is 84 years old. Russian television channel NTV reported on his death on its Telegram channel.

Bakatin was born on November 6, 1937 in the city of Kiselevsk, Novosibirsk region (now Kemerovo), and in 1960 he graduated from the hydrotechnical faculty of the Novosibirsk Engineering and Construction Institute named after him. VV Kuibyshev, and later (in 1985) – the Academy of Social Sciences under the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

In 1983, Bakatin took the post of inspector in the Central Committee of the CPSU, and in 1988, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev offered him the post of Minister of Internal Affairs, previously held by Alexander Vlasov.

He took the post of head of the KGB after the August 1991 putsch, in which the then head of the KGB Kryuchkov took part. In this post, which he held just a few months before the collapse of the USSR, he is remembered for the fact that, with the sanction of Gorbachev, as a sign of “good will”, he handed over to the United States a wiretapping. scheme for the new building of the American embassy in Moscow.

In 1991, Bakatin became one of the candidates in the presidential election in the RSFSR.

Earlier it was reported that the first and last President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev was in a hospital in serious condition.

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Source: korrespondent

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