Sergei Smirnov (intelligence officer)
Sergei Smirnov | |
|---|---|
Smirnov around 2018 | |
| First Deputy Director of the Federal Security Service | |
| In office July 2003 – October 2020 | |
| President | Vladimir Putin Dmitri Medvedev |
| Succeeded by | Sergei Korolev |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Sergei Mikhailovich Smirnov October 12, 1950 Chita, Zabaykalsky Krai, RSFSR, Soviet Union |
| Alma mater | M.A. Bonch-Bruevich Leningrad Electroengineering Institute of Communications (B.S.) |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | Russia |
| Branch/service | KGB, FSK, FSB |
| Years of service | 1975–2020 |
| Rank | General of the Army |
Sergei Mikhailovich Smirnov (Russian: Серге́й Миха́йлович Смирно́в, born October 12, 1950) is a retired Russian intelligence officer whose career ended with a seventeen-year stint as First Deputy Director of the Federal Security Service (FSB). He was made a General of the Army in 2006.