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    Генерал-полковник ЛEБEДEВ Сергей Николаевич

    (Colonel General LEBEDEV Sergey Nikolayevich)
    Director, Foreign Intelligence Service 
    • Born 9 April 1948 in the city of Dzhizak (Uzbek SSR).  
    • Speaks German and English.

    Education

    • After graduation from 1970 Chernihiv branch of Kiev's Polytechnical Institute he stayed on to work at the institute.
    • Counterintelligence (at the KGB's Kiev school)
    • Intelligence training (the KGB's Red Banner Institute).
    • 1978 he graduated with distinction from the USSR Foreign Ministry Diplomatic Academy.  

    Career:

    • In 1971-1972 he served in the army.
    • From 1973 he worked in state security organs 
    • From 1975 in foreign intelligence (the USSR KGB First Main Directorate).  
    • Foreign tours of duty -- 
      • GDR, 
      • FRG, West Berlin, 
      • and the united Germany.
    • 1998-2000 he was the Russian Federation SVR's official representative to the United States.
    • Appointed director of the SVR 20 May 2000 by Russian Federation presidential edict.

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       He holds the military rank of colonel general.  And has won awards.
       He is married.  His wife Vera Mikhaylovna is a chemical engineer.  They have been together for 30 years.  They have two grown-up sons and a grandson.
       His father Nikolay Ivanovich, who was from Siberia, was a soldier in the war from the Volga to Austria and then worked as a driver; he died in 1994.
       His mother, Nina Yakovlevna, went through the blockade.  After the war she received a higher financial education and worked as an accountant.  She is currently retired.  She lives in Moscow.
       His hobbies are work, his family, and his dacha.
    (Rossiyskaya Gazeta, 20 Dec 02).
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