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
BornSergei Mikhailovich Smirnov
(1950-10-12) October 12, 1950
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
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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.