Vladimir Semichastny
| Vladimir Semichastny Владимир Семичастный |
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September 1964. Vladimir Semichastny, Chairman of the KGB (first from left), talking to Soviet intelligence officers Rudolf Abel (second from left) and Konon Molody (second from right).
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| 3rd Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB) | |
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In office November 13, 1961 – May 18, 1967 |
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| Premier |
Nikita Khrushchev Alexei Kosygin |
| Preceded by | Alexander Shelepin |
| Succeeded by | Yuri Andropov |
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Vladimir Yefimovich Semichastny 15 January 1924 village Hryhorivka, Donetsk Oblast, Soviet Ukraine |
| Died | 12 January 2001 (aged 76) Moscow, Russian Federation |
| Citizenship | Soviet (until 1991) and Russian |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Political party | Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
Vladimir Yefimovich Semichastny (Russian: Влади́мир Ефи́мович Семича́стный, January 15, 1924 – January 12, 2001) was a Soviet politician, who served as Chairman of the KGB from November 1961 to May 1967. A protégé of Alexander Shelepin, he rose through the ranks of the Communist Youth League (Komsomol).
Semichastny was born in January 1924 in the village of Grygorevka, near Grishino (today Krasnoarmiisk), in the Donetsk Oblast (later renamed Stalino Oblast) of Soviet Ukraine, to a working-class Russian family originally from Tula Province. After finishing high school in 1941, he began studying Chemistry at the Institute of Chemical Technology in Kemerovo, but his studies were interrupted by World War II; his family back in Ukraine were evacuated to Astrakhan, due to the Nazi conquest of the region, and Semichastny himself was drafted to the Red Army. After the liberation of the Donbass by the Red Army in 1943, Semichastny returned home. Later, he received a degree in History from Kiev State University.
After the end of the war, Semichastny became a full-time employee of the Communist Youth League (Komsomol), working in the fields of propaganda and administration. From 1947 to 1950 he was First Secretary of the Ukrainian Komsomol. In 1950 he was brought to Moscow to work in the central apparatus of the Komsomol, where he met and befriended Alexander Shelepin, forging very close ties with him and eventually succeeding him as First Secretary of the All-Union Komsomol.
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