Vadim Viktorovich Bakatin (Вадим Викторович Бакатин) (born November 6, 1937) was a Soviet politician who served as the last chairman of the KGB in 1991. He is 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 task1
He was born in Kiselyovsk, Kemerovo Oblast and educated at Novosibirsk Construction Engineering Institute and Academy of Social Sciences.
Career
1960-71 - supervisor, chief engineer, director of construction works.
1964-91 - Member of the CPSU.
1971-73 - chief engineer of housing construction combine.
1973-75 - Second Secretary of Kemerovo City Committee.
1977-83 - Secretary of Kemerovo District Committee.
1985 - Inspector of CPSU Central Committee.
1985-87 - First Secretary of Kirov District Committee.
1986-90 - Member of CPSU Central Committee.
1987-88 - First Secretary of Kemerovo District Committee.
1988-90 - USSR Minister of Internal Affairs.
1990(Jan-Nov) - Member of the Presidential Council.
1991(Aug-Dec) - Head of KGB.
1991-92 - Head of Interrepublican Security Service.
1992 - Vice-President and Director of Department of Political and International Relations of the international "Reforma" Fund.
Quotes
The traditions of chekism must be eradicated, must cease to exist as an ideology.2
References
^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 Secret Empire: The KGB in Russia Today., Westview Press. Boulder, CO., 1994., ISBN 0-813323-231
