Vitaly Vasilyevich Fedorchuk

Witali Wassiljewitsch Fedortschuk ( Ukrainian Віталій Васильович Федорчук , Russian Виталий Васильевич Федорчук ; * December 27, 1918 in Ohijiwka , Moscow Government ; † February 29, 2008 in Moscow was a Soviet politician in Moscow ; † )

Career

Fedorschuk attended the military college in Kiev and had worked for the Soviet secret service SMERSH since 1939 . He became chairman of the KGB of Ukraine in 1970. Fedorschuk was KGB chief from May 26, 1982 to December 17, 1982 and Minister of the Interior of the Soviet Union from 1982 to 1986 . He died in Moscow in 2008 after a long illness and was buried in the Trojekurovo cemetery.

Honors

Order of the October Revolution (1971)
Order of Lenin (1977)
Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1973, 1980)
Order of the Great Patriotic War 1st class
Order of the Red Star (1943, 1952)

literature

A. Gorkin and others: Wojenny enziklopeditscheski slowar: Tom 2 . Bolschaja rossijskaja enziklopedija, 2001, ISBN 5-7905-0996-7 , p. 698 (Russian)

Web links

Message to the deaths of Fedortschuk (English)

personal data
SURNAME	Fedorschuk, Vitali Wassiljewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Федорчук, Виталий Васильевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Soviet and Ukrainian politicians
DATE OF BIRTH	December 27, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ohijiwka , Kiev Governorate
DATE OF DEATH	February 29, 2008
Place of death	Moscow


Cheka 1917–1922	Felix Edmundowitsch Dzerzhinsky (1917–1918) • Jakow Christoforowitsch Peters (1918) • Felix Edmundowitsch Dzerzhinsky (1918–1922)
GPU 1922-1934	Felix Edmundowitsch Dzerzhinsky (1922–1926) • Vyacheslav Rudolfowitsch Menschinsky (1926–1934)
NKVD 1934-1946	Genrich Grigoryevich Jagoda (1934–1936) • Nikolai Iwanowitsch Jeschow (1936–1938) • Lavrenti Beria (1938–1946)
MGB 1946–1954	Vsevolod Nikolajewitsch Merkulow (1946) • Viktor Semjonowitsch Abakumow (1946–1951) • Semyon Denissowitsch Ignatjew (1951–1953) • Lavrenti Beria (1953) • Sergei Nikiforowitsch Kruglow (1953–1954)
KGB 1954-1991	Ivan Serov (1954-1958) • Alexander Shelepin (1958-1961) • Vladimir Semichastny (1961-1967) • Yuri Andropov (1967-1982) • Vitaly Fedorchuk (1982) • Viktor Chebrikov (1982-1988 ) • Vladimir Alexandrovich Kryuchkov (1988–1991) • Leonid Vladimirovich Schebarschin (1991) • Vadim Viktorovich Bakatin (1991)