Sergei Smirnov (intelligence officer)

Sergei Smirnov
Smirnov around 2018
First Deputy Director of the Federal Security Service
In office
July 2003  October 2020
PresidentVladimir Putin
Dmitri Medvedev
Succeeded bySergei Korolev
Personal details
Born
Sergei Mikhailovich Smirnov

(1950-10-12) October 12, 1950
Chita, Zabaykalsky Krai, RSFSR, Soviet Union
Alma materM.A. Bonch-Bruevich Leningrad Electroengineering Institute of Communications (B.S.)
Military service
AllegianceRussia
Branch/serviceKGB, FSK, FSB
Years of service1975–2020
RankGeneral 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.