In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Viktorovich and the family name is Bakatin.
Vadim Bakatin
Вадим Бакатин
Bakatin in 1988
Leader of the Inter-Republican Security Service of the USSR
In office 6 November 1991[1] – 15 January 1992[2]
Premier
Ivan Silayev
Preceded by
Post established
Succeeded by
Post abolished
Chairman of the KGB
In office 29 August 1991[3] – 3 December 1991
Premier
Ivan Silayev
Preceded by
Vladimir Kryuchkov
Succeeded by
Post abolished
Minister of Interior of the Soviet Union
In office 20 October 1988 – 1 December 1990
Premier
Nikolai Ryzhkov
Preceded by
Alexander Vlasov
Succeeded by
Boris Pugo
Personal details
Born
(1937-11-06)6 November 1937 Kiselyovsk, Kemerovo Oblast, Soviet Union
Died
31 July 2022(2022-07-31) (aged 84) Moscow, Russia
Nationality
Soviet (1937–1991)
Russian (1991–2022)
Political party
Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1964–1991)
Vadim Viktorovich Bakatin (Russian: Вадим Викторович Бакатин; 6 November 1937 – 31 July 2022) 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[4] due to political reasons.[5] However, he was able to fulfill a plan to disintegrate the intelligence agency into separate organizations.[6] He ran for the Russian presidency as an independent candidate in June 1991.
^Указ Президента СССР от 06.11.1991 N УП-2818
^Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 15 января 1992 г. № 22 «Об освобождении от должностей руководителей министерств и ведомств»
^Постановление Верховного Совета СССР от 29 августа 1991 г. N 2370-I «О членах Кабинета Министров СССР»
^Yevgenia Albats and Catherine A. Fitzpatrick. The State Within a State: The KGB and Its Hold on Russia—Past, Present, and Future. 1994. ISBN 0-374-52738-5
^J. Michael Waller. Russia: Death and Resurrection of the KGB.
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