The Soviet Country. Forgotten Leaders

Ivan Serov (2x5)

Air date: Oct 06, 2019

Ivan Aleksandrovich Serov (August 12 [25], 1905, Afimskoye village, Kadnikovsky district, Vologda province, Russian Empire - July 1, 1990, Vishnevsky Central Krasnogorsk military hospital, Krasnogorsk, Moscow region, RSFSR, USSR) - head of Soviet special services, the first chairman of the State Security Committee under the Council of Ministers of the USSR in 1954-1958, head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff in 1958-1963, General of the Army (August 8, 1955, demoted to Major General April 12, 1963), Hero of the Soviet Union (05/29/1945 , stripped of his title on 03/12/1963).