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Vadim Bakatin
Vadim Bakatin
Вадим Бакатин
	Bakatin in 1988
Leader of the Inter-Republican Security Service of the USSR
	In office; 6 November 1991 – 15 January 1992
Premier	Ivan Silayev
Preceded by	Post established
Succeeded by	Post abolished
Chairman of the KGB
	In office; 29 August 1991 – 3 December 1991
Premier	Ivan Silayev
Preceded by	Vladimir Kryuchkov
Succeeded by	Post abolished
Minister of Interior of the Soviet Union
	In office; 20 October 1988 – 1 December 1990
Premier	Nikolai Ryzhkov
Preceded by	Alexander Vlasov
Succeeded by	Boris Pugo
Personal details
Born	6 November 1937; Kiselyovsk, Kemerovo Oblast, Soviet Union
Died	31 July 2022 (aged 84); Moscow, Russia
Nationality	Soviet (1937–1991); Russian (1991–2022);
Political party	Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1964–1991)

Vadim Viktorovich Bakatin (Russian: Вадим Викторович Бакатин; 6 November 1937 – 31 July 2022) was a Russian politician who served as the last chairman of the KGB in 1991. He was the last surviving former chairman of this organization. He was appointed to dismantle the KGB, but he was unable to control this organization and to fulfill the task^[4] due to political reasons.^[5] However, he was able to fulfill a plan to disintegrate the intelligence agency into separate organizations.^[6] He ran for the Russian presidency as an independent candidate in June 1991.

Early life and education

Vadim Bakatin was born in Kiselyovsk, Kemerovo Oblast, in 1937. He graduated from the Novosibirsk Civil Engineering Institute and the Academy of Social Sciences under the CPSU Central Committee.^[7]

Career

From 1960 to 1971, Bakatin was supervisor, chief engineer, and director of construction works. From 1964 to 1991, he was the member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. From 1986 to 1990, he served as a member of the CPSU Central Committee. Bakatin was appointed Minister of Interior of the Soviet Union in 1988, replacing Alexander Vlasov.^[8] Bakatin's tenure lasted until 1990. In 1991, he was made the head of KGB. Eventually, he was able to disintegrate the KGB, dismiss Fourth Department of the Chief Directorate "З", Fifth Chief Directorate, the actual political police apparatus that ran the secret informants, political dossiers, and dissident-hunting machinery.^[6]

After the disintegration of the KGB, he served as head of the Inter-republican Security Service of the Soviet Union.

Bakatin had been put forth as a candidate for the Communist Party's nomination for the 1990 Soviet Union presidential election. However, he decided not to compete.^[9]

In 1991, Vadim Bakatin as Chief of the KGB revealed to the U.S. ambassador Robert Schwarz Strauss to the Soviet Union the methods that had been used to install covert listening devices in the building that had been intended to replace Spaso House as the American embassy in Moscow. Strauss reported that this revelation was made from a sense of cooperation and goodwill, with "no strings attached". Bakatin's action was met with harsh criticism, including allegations of treason^[10] which were eventually retracted.

In 1992, Bakatin was appointed vice-president and director of the Department of Political and International Relations of the international "Reforma" fund. From 1997 on, Bakatin was a director/advisor of Baring Vostok (Moscow).

1991 presidential campaign

Bakatin was a candidate in the 1991 Russian presidential election. His running mate was Ramazan Abdulatipov. He ultimately placed last in the election out of six candidates, receiving 2,719,757 votes (3.5% of the votes cast).