Mikhail Barsukov
| Mikhail Barsukov | |
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| Allegiance |
 Soviet Union Russia
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| Service |
KGB FSB |
| Rank | Army General |
| Operation(s) | Kizlyar-Pervomayskoye hostage crisis |
| Award(s) | Order of the Red Star |
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| Born | November 8, 1947 |
| Nationality |
Soviet Russian |
| Alma mater |
Moscow Military Commanders Training School, Frunze Military Academy |
Mikhail Ivanovich Barsukov (Russian: Михаил Иванович Барсуков; born on 8 November 1947) is a former Russian intelligence and government official. His most notable post was as the short-lived head of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) in mid-1990s.
Mikhail Barsukov was born in the city of Lipetsk, the capital of Lipetsk Oblast region in western Russia, the son of Ivan Barsukov, a Soviet Army non-commissioned officer serving as a radio communications operator. In 1955, he began his studies at the Lipetsk School No. 5 and finished high school at the Lipetsk School No. 12. Upon completion of high school studies, Barsukov enrolled in the Moscow Military Commanders Training School of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR in 1966. He studied tactics, strategy and military leadership for four years, prior to earning a commission as a KGB junior lieutenant in 1970. Barsukov also studied at a staff college called the Frunze Military Academy sometime during his career, though exact dates are unavailable.
Barsukov spent the majority of his career moving up through various officer ranks of the Kremlin Regiment, a paramilitary KGB (Ninth Chief Directorate) force responsible for the security of the Soviet seat of power political power and the highest levels of political leadership. In 1970 he was assigned to this regiment as a platoon commander, continuing onto higher positions but maintaining the same assignment of security operations in the first sector of Kremlin compound, which housed Senate building. By 1991, Barsukov achieved the position of deputy Commandant of the Kremlin, prior to the complete dissolution of the Soviet Union.
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