Vadim Bakatin

Last chairman of the KGB (1937-2022) · Politicians · Died at 84

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2022Died31 July 20221987Order of LeninAward1976Order of the Badge of HonourAward1970Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"AwardMore about this1937Born6 November 1937

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Awards

Order of Lenin1987

Order of the Badge of Honour1976

Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"1970

Medal "Veteran of Labour"

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About this person

Vadim Viktorovich Bakatin was a Russian politician who served as the last chairman of the KGB in 1991. He was the last surviving former chairman of this organization. He was appointed to dismantle the KGB, but he was unable to control this organization and to fulfill the task due to political reasons. However, he was able to fulfill a plan to disintegrate the intelligence agency into separate organizations. He ran for the Russian presidency as an independent candidate in the June 1991 election.