Biography
Vladimir Kryuchkov - politician who held the post of Chairman of the KGB of the USSR from 1988 to 1991. He was the right hand of Yuri Andropov, and during the decay period the USSR consisted of GCCP. The victim defeat, the statesman did not come with glances and tried to protest the verdict, made him and colleagues as provocateurs of the collapse of the Soviet Union.Childhood and youth
Vladimir Crochekov Rode from Volgograd. He was born on February 29, 1924. Young years of the boy did not differ from the life of peers, students of workers' families. Vladimir was 17 when the Great Patriotic War began. Due to the fact that he did not have time to achieve adulthood, the guy did not take to the front. It pleased the parents who managed to lose the eldest son. Brother Volodya died, so he cared with double power.
Throwing school, hooks became a marktift on an artillery factory, where his father received the position of head of the workshop. It freed Vladimir from calling to the army. The young man left the city, having left in evacuation, and home returned already in 1943. By this period, the start of the Komsomol career of the future policy. At first he was appointed a compusor at the construction site, and then provided the position of head of the district committee. Vladimir Kryuchkov joined the party.
In addition to social activities, he decided to close the question of obtaining full secondary education and became a student of the evening school. In 1945, Vladimir entered the Jurfak of the Saratov Institute, and a year later I was transferred to the All-Union Law Institute.
Personal life
Crochekov entered into marriage in his youth. Spouse Catherine worked as a teacher. The personal life of the pair has developed successfully. Wife was a peers of Vladimir and gave birth to two children - Sergei Kryuchkova and Alexey Kryuchkov.Alexey, Vasiroval, became the chief adviser to the CIS Department in the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Career and politics
Crochekov began working in the prosecutor's office, became a folk investigator and successfully moved along the career ladder, living in Stalingrad. From 1947 he held the position of the prosecutor of the investigative department, and after 3 years, already obtaining a diploma of his profile education, became the prosecutor of the Kirov district of the city.
In 1951, Vladimir was sent to study to the highest diplomatic school. After 3 years, they were distributed to the Foreign Minister's European Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the IV, and another year later, the State Actor became Deputy Secretary of the Embassy of the Soviet Union in Hungary. He even happened to participate in the political periods that occurred in this country in 1956.
In 1959, Vladimir Kryuchkov became a reference in the sector of Hungary and Romania in the Department of the Central Committee of the CPSU, engaged in interaction with compatures leading activity in the states where socialism was developed. The position of the head of the CPSU Central Committee of the CPSU, and after 2 years he was an assistant secretary of the organization Yuri Andropov. When the latter came to power in May 1967, the man became his right hand and a reliable companion.
In 1967, the shoulders of the State Affairs were responsible for managing the USSR KGB secretariat. From 1971 to 1974, he was noticed in the post, and later, and personally was the head of the first main department of the KGB of the Soviet Union. Cooooki activity focused on issues of foreign intelligence. In the status of the KGB deputy chairman, it is involved in the implementation of Soviet troops into the territory of Afghanistan during the fighting. Vladimir Alexandrovich participated in the work of the representative office of the KBB.
From 1984 to 1989, he was a deputy of the Council of Nationalities of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the 11th convocation from the Republic of Belarus. In 1988, politics appointed the Chairman of the KGB. A year later, in this post, he combined with membership in the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU, and since 1990 he was a member of the USSR Presidential Council. Until the collapse of the Soviet Union, the statesman ruled security issues, and subsequently served as the Minister of the USSR.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the investigations, which were conducted with respect to this process, followed the arrest of a high-ranking official. Mikhail Gorbachev liberated him from his posts. Two years of hooks were concluded and subjected to interrogations. In 1993, he was released on a subscription of the unseen in the company Gennady Yanayev and other politicians held in the GCCP. A year later, the man was subjected to amnesty.
The new twist in the biography of the statesman was employment in the "Experimental Creative Center" and follow-up as Chairman of the Board of Directors in the Region Joint-Stock Company. He was also an adviser to the Director of the FSB of Russia under President Vladimir Putin.
Vladimir Kryuchkov consisted of the Committee of Movement Supporting the Army, and participated in the organization and subsequent work of the Society of State Security Veterans. The former chairman of the KGB practically did not give an interview, but sometimes appeared in public on professional holidays.
Death
Politician died on November 23, 2007 at the age of 83. The cause of death became a heart attack. The grave of Vladimir Kryuchkova is located in Moscow at the Troyekovsky cemetery. Photos of the State Worker today can be seen in the archives and some books on the history of the USSR and Russia.