Andrei Vasilievich Krasavin (1918-1979) —Soviet intelligence officer, major of state security , participant in the Great Patriotic War , USSR State Prize laureate , head of the Electronic Intelligence Division of the First Main Directorate of the KGB of the USSR .
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| Date of Birth | October 5, 1918 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of Birth |  Russian empire | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | December 9, 1979 ( 61) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Moscow  the USSR | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Affiliation | the USSR | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Type of army | KGB of the USSR | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years of service | 1939 - 1979 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Battles / wars | The Great Patriotic War | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Biography
Born on October 5, 1918 . In 1939 he was sent as an operational officer to work in the NKVD of the USSR .
Member of the Great Patriotic War since 1941 , worked as an operative, Art. the operative officer and the head of the department of the Office of the NKGB of the USSR for the Leningrad Region .
After the war, since 1946, in leadership positions in the Foreign Intelligence agencies of the Ministry of State Security of the USSR . Since 1946 he worked as a resident in Austria , since 1955 in France .
Since 1960, in the central office of PSU KGB of the USSR . Since 1971, the head of the 16th Division (Electronic Intelligence) of the Foreign Intelligence of the KGB of the USSR .
He died in the workplace in 1979 . He was buried at the Vagankovsky cemetery in Moscow.
Rewards
- Laureate of the USSR State Prize (1974);
- Order of the Badge of Honor ;
- Two orders of the Red Star ;
- Two Orders of the Red Banner ;
- Order of the October Revolution ;
- Order of Lenin ;
Departmental insignia:
- Honorary State Security Officer ;
Sources
- Encyclopedia of Russian Secret Services. - M .: AST , 2003 .-- 800 p.
- Krasavin A.V.
- 16th department of PSU KGB of the USSR