# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ivan-savchenko
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:47:45.866Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ivan-savchenko"
name: "Ivan Savchenko"
slug: "ivan-savchenko"
description: "Ivan Tikhonovich Savchenko was a Soviet Communist Party and KGB executive. Savchenko made a career as a political officer in the Red Army during World War II. A protégé of Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev, Savchenko transferred to the Ministry of State Security in 1951. In 1952 he was promoted to the chief of the Special Services Department, in 1953 to the Chief of the KGB's Eighth Chief Directorate. His record at the national Party and KGB levels was lackluster, and 1959 he was transferred from Moscow to Chişinău as the head of the Moldavian SSR KGB. In 1967–1979 Savchenko represented the KGB in Romania and Bulgaria."
tagline: "KGB officer"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1908-03-09"
deathDate: "1999-09-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.16
  momentum:             0.9
  historical:           5.470590666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  25
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iwan_Sawczenko_(funkcjonariusz)"
    title: "Iwan Sawczenko (funkcjonariusz)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%BE"
    title: "Иван Савченко"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Savchenko"
    title: "Ivan Savchenko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%BE_%D0%86%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%A2%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Савченко Іван Тихонович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Savcenko"
    title: "Ivan Savcenko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%BE%2C_%D0%98%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%A2%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Савченко, Иван Тихонович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17427791"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump