Savchenko, Ivan Tikhonovich

Born in the family of a peasant middle peasant. Ukrainian. Member of the CPSU (b) since October 1939.

In June 1923 - July 1925, he studied at the labor school in Taganrog , in July 1925 - June 1930 - at the Taganrog Industrial Technical School (diploma issued by the Metallurgical Institute in Kamenskoe in 1930), then head of the ore yard, head of continuous industrial training, assistant chief blast furnace plant, a senior engineer, methodologist, head teacher of courses of socialist labor masters , shift supervisor domain Metallurgical plant named after F. Dzerzhinsky (Kamenka factory of Dnipropetrovsk Dnipropetrovsk t he area ), with May 1941 - Secretary of the Bureau of CP (b) plant in Ukraine.

From May 1941, he worked in the Party Control Commission at the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) : Controller, Deputy Commissioner of the CPC at the Central Committee of the CPSU (B.) In the Chkalov region , from April 1943, responsible controller of the CPC at the Central Committee of the CPSU (B), from April 1944 CPC under the Central Committee of the VKP (b) in Molotovskaya , from May 1946 - in Voroshilovgrad regions .

From June 1947, Deputy Head of the Personnel Department at the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine , from December 1948 - Deputy Head of the Department of Planning, Finance and Trade Organs of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine, then worked in the Central Committee of the CPSU (B): Inspector of the Central Committee ( December 1950 - March 1951), head of the sector department of the party, trade union and Komsomol organs of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) (March 20 - August 1951). Then sent to work in the MGB .

Since 1951, in the state security organs:

• Deputy Minister of State Security of the USSR (August 26, 1951 - July 3, 1952),
• Head of the GUSS under the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) - CPSU (June 28, 1952 - March 12, 1953),
• Head of the 8th Directorate of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs (March 12, 1953 - March 18, 1954)
• Deputy Chairman of the KGB with the USSR Council of Ministers (March 13, 1954 - July 6, 1959),
• Chairman of the KGB under the Council of Ministers of the Moldavian SSR (July 11, 1959 - February 14, 1967),
• Head of the KGB Representative Office at the UGB of Hungary (February 14, 1967 - July 1969)
• Head of the KGB Office at the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Bulgaria (July 1969 - November 1979).

Since May 1980, retired.

• Colonel (January 4, 1954);
• Major General (May 31, 1954);
• Lieutenant General (April 25, 1975)

• Order of Lenin (October 30, 1967),
• Order of the October Revolution (December 13, 1977),
• 2 Orders of the Red Banner of Labor (January 23, 1948, March 28, 1958),
• 4 medals.

Foreign awards

Order of George Dimitrov (March 1978).

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