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Leonid Kvasnikov

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KGB officer (1905-1993)

Lived 1905 to 1993 · aged 88
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Leonid Romanovich Kvasnikov was a Soviet and Russian chemical engineer and a spy, serving first in NKVD and later served in KGB. Graduated with honors from the Moscow Institute of Chemical Machine-Building in 1934 and worked as an engineer in a chemical plant for several years in the Tula region.

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1996Hero of the Russian Federation
1985Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class
1985Order of the Red Star
1959Order of the Red Banner of Labour
1954Order of the Red Star
1949Order of Lenin
1944Order of the Red Star
1942Honorary worker of the NKVD
Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Honorary Officer of the State Security

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Leonid Romanovich Kvasnikov was a Soviet and Russian chemical engineer and a spy, serving first in NKVD and later served in KGB. Graduated with honors from the Moscow Institute of Chemical Machine-Building in 1934 and worked as an engineer in a chemical plant for several years in the Tula region. Kvasnikov continued postgraduate engineering studies and joined the KGB in 1938 as a specialist in scientific-technical intelligence. Beginning in 1939 he was the section head of scientific and technical intelligence. Kvasnikov served a few short-term assignments in Germany and Poland and rising swiftly to become deputy chief and then chief of the KGB scientific intelligence section.

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Lived 1905 to 1993 · aged 88
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