Biography: family and early years
The father of the future general served in the Navy during the war. Since the end of 1994, Platon Ignatievich took part in escorting the northern sea convoys of the allies. He went into the reserve as captain of the 1st rank. Nikolai Platonovich’s mother, a chemist by training, worked as a nurse during the Soviet-Finnish war and during the siege of Leningrad. After the end of hostilities, she got a job in a construction company. Nikolai Patrushev studied in the same class with the future chairman of the Supreme Council of United Russia Gryzlov. In 1947, the future general graduated from the Leningrad Shipbuilding Institute. After receiving his education, Nikolai Patrushev got a job as an engineer in a design bureau at the university.
Start of career
From 1974 to 1975, Nikolai Patrushev attended the highest KGB courses in Minsk. In 1975, he began working in the counterintelligence unit of the KGB Directorate for the Leningrad Region. Here he held the positions of detective, head of the city department, deputy head of the regional department, head of the service for combating corruption and smuggling. In addition, Nikolai Patrushev attended a year-long advanced training course at the KGB Higher School.
Career
Patrushev spent 17 years working in the KGB counterintelligence structure. First he came to the position of an ordinary operative; Climbing the career ladder, he reached the post of head of the unit for combating smuggling and corruption. In 1992, he became the Minister of Security of the Republic of Karelia and remained in the region for two years.
Politician Nikolai Patrushev
After working in Karelia, he was entrusted with the post of head of the FSB unit, which monitored compliance with laws and regulations by service employees. After four years as head of the Internal Security Directorate, in 1998, Patrushev moved to the Kremlin for essentially a similar job.
Having headed the Main Control Directorate of the Presidential Administration, he conducted an audit of the functioning of state-owned enterprises. It is noteworthy that his predecessor in this post was Vladimir Putin.
Nikolai Patrushev and Vladimir Putin
Patrushev worked in the Administration of the Head of State for only four months. After his resignation, he returned to the FSB: he was appointed deputy director of the organization. Less than a year later, in August 1999, Nikolai Patrushev became director of the law enforcement structure and remained in the position for 10 years.
During the period of Patrushev's leadership of the Federal Security Service, a number of the largest terrorist attacks in the country's history occurred: house explosions in Buynaksk, Moscow, Volgodonsk, the seizure of a theater on Dubrovka, a terrorist attack at the Wings rock festival, the murder of Akhmat Kadyrov, explosions of two planes, the capture of students in Beslan . In the second half of the 2000s, the number of terrorist attacks decreased by 2-3 times compared to the statistics of previous years.
Sergei Ivanov and Nikolai Patrushev
In May 2008, he received the post of Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. This is an advisory structure under the head of state, which ensures the preparation of his decisions in the field of security.
While Patrushev headed the FSB, five people held this post: Vladimir Putin, Sergei Ivanov, Vladimir Rushailo, Igor Ivanov, Valentin Sobolev. Today, Patrushev’s service as Secretary of the Security Council is the longest in the entire history of the existence of the position.
Check of Rosvooruzhenie
This was Patrushev’s last major event as head of the GKU. The check was carried out by order of Yeltsin. As a result of the audit, serious financial violations were revealed on the part of Kotelkin’s team (former head of Rosvooruzhenie). Some sources contained information that Kuzyk, Boris Yeltsin’s former assistant in military-technical cooperation, appears in the inspection report. In addition, the document also included the names of some employees of the Presidential Administration. Yeltsin ordered a thorough investigation to identify and punish those responsible. This task was entrusted to Skuratov. The Administrative Apparatus did not rule out that this audit of Rosvooruzhenie became the reason for Patrushev’s subsequent resignation from the post of head of the GKU.
FSB
From the beginning of October 1998 to 1999, Nikolai Patrushev was deputy director of the Federal Security Service and head of the Department of Economic Security. It should be said that in his previous post he had more opportunities and was closer to the Government. On April 16, 1999, Patrushev became the first deputy director of the FSB. Since August 9 of the same year - acting director. At the end of September he was elected a member of the SORB of the CIS member countries. He held this position until May 2008. From February 2006 to mid-2008, he became head of the National Anti-Terrorism Committee.
Development of physical education and sports
Nikolai Platonovich Patrushev, whose nationality is Russian, in the mid-2000s began to actively support initiatives to develop physical culture and sports among the population. He was a member of the council for the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Sochi.
In 2004, he personally headed the All-Russian Volleyball Federation. The FSB director was fond of this sport in his youth. Now Patrushev Nikolai Platonovich, whose position was the president of the federation, oversaw the development of this sport nationwide. In this post, he replaced Valentin Zhukov, a famous Soviet volleyball coach.
Patrushev ruled the Volleyball Federation for 5 years. During this period, the women's national volleyball team achieved the greatest success. At the Summer Olympics in Athens, Nikolai Karpol's team advanced to the playoffs from second place in the group, defeating the Americans, Germans and Dominicans, but losing to the Chinese and Cubans.
In the quarter finals, the Russians easily defeated the South Korean team (3:0), in the semi-finals they fought hard, and beat the Brazilian team in five games. In the decisive match, Karpol's team again met with the Chinese. The Russians were close to success, winning the first two games 30:28 and 27:25. But the Asian volleyball players were able to turn the tide of the match. The Russian team brought only a silver medal to the national team's treasury. But it was also a significant success. Many at that time, to a certain extent, associated him with the figure of Patrushev at the head of the federation.
Other purposes
Since November 1999, Patrushev was deputy chairman of the Federal Anti-Terrorism Commission. Since the end of January of the same year, he was a member of the Interdepartmental Committee for the Prevention and Elimination of Emergency Disasters. Since mid-November, he became a permanent member of the Russian Security Council. From the same time until the end of April 2001, he joined the Presidential Commission for Combating Political Extremism. From January 2001 to August 2003, Patrushev was appointed head of the Operational Headquarters for managing counter-terrorism operations in the North Caucasus region. He transferred these powers to Gryzlov. In the spring of 2001, Patrushev began leading the task force to strengthen security, ensure the protection of residents of Karachay-Cherkessia and the Stavropol Territory, and provide emergency assistance to victims of terrorist attacks. In mid-October 2003, he joined the Maritime Board under the Government of the country.
In the spring of 2007, he was approved as a member of the Commission for resolving issues of military-technical cooperation between the Russian Federation and Western states. At the end of September of the same year, Patrushev was included in the Council for the Development of Sports and Physical Education. He participated in the preparation of the Olympics and Paralympic Games in Sochi. On May 12, 2008, he was Secretary of the Security Council. Nikolai Patrushev was also the president of the All-Russian Volleyball Federation from 2004 to 2009.
Nikolay Patrushev
Nikolai Platonovich Patrushev - Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation since May 12, 2008, Russian statesman, army general (2001). Nikolai Patrushev - Hero of the Russian Federation (2001). Director of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (1999−2008), full holder of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland. Nikolai Patrushev was also the chairman of the supervisory board of the All-Russian Volleyball Federation, the president of the All-Russian Volleyball Federation (2004−2009).
Early years and education
Nikolai Platonovich Patrushev was born on July 11, 1951 in Leningrad.
Father - Platon Ignatievich Patrushev (1918−1995) - comes from peasants. Platon Patrushev was a participant in the Great Patriotic War and served in the Navy since 1938, according to Nikolai Patrushev’s biography on Wikipedia. Member of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) since 1939, served on the destroyer "Threatening" of the Baltic Fleet, party organizer of the crew, then deputy commander of the destroyer "Active" for political affairs. He was awarded the medals “For the Defense of Leningrad”, “For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945”, the Order of the Red Star and the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st and 2nd degree. Nikolai Patrushev's father retired as a captain of the 1st rank.
Mother - Antonina Nikolaevna Patrusheva - is a chemist by training. Antonina Nikolaevna was a nurse during the Soviet-Finnish war and during the Leningrad blockade, after the war she worked in a construction company.
Nikolai Patrushev studied at Leningrad secondary school No. 211, his classmate was the future chairman of the Supreme Council of the United Russia party, Boris Gryzlov .
After school, Nikolai Patrushev received a higher education by entering the Leningrad Shipbuilding Institute at the instrument-making department.
Career of Nikolai Patrushev
Nikolai Platonovich Patrushev worked as an engineer at the institute's design bureau. Patrushev’s biography on the FSB website says that he worked as an engineer at one of the departments of the Leningrad Shipbuilding Institute.
It also notes that Nikolai Platonovich has been in the state security agencies since 1974.
In 1974-1975, Nikolai Patrushev was a student at the higher KGB courses at the USSR Council of Ministers in Minsk.
After completing the courses, Nikolai Platonovich Patrushev worked in the counterintelligence unit of the KGB of the USSR in the Leningrad Region, first as a junior detective, then as an detective. Nikolai Patrushev was appointed head of the city department, deputy head of the regional department, and finally, head of the service for combating smuggling and corruption. At the same time, Nikolai Platonovich completed a one-year advanced training course at the Higher School of the KGB of the USSR.
Then, in the biography of Nikolai Patrushev, the position of Minister of Security of the Republic of Karelia (1992−1994) appears. Nikolai Platonovich also worked as the head of the department of the Federal Counterintelligence Service of the Russian Federation for Karelia.
From 1994 to 1998, Nikolai Patrushev served as Head of the Internal Security Directorate of the FSB of Russia, and was deputy head of the department - head of the organizational and inspection department of the Department for Organizational and Personnel Work of the FSB of Russia.
Successfully climbing the career ladder, Nikolai Patrushev in 1998 was appointed head of the Main Control Directorate (GCU) of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, replacing Vladimir Putin .
Since January 29, 1999, Nikolai Patrushev has been a member of the Interdepartmental Commission for the Prevention and Elimination of Emergency Situations. In April, Nikolai Platonovich was appointed first deputy director of the FSB of Russia. From April 16, 1999 to May 12, 2008, Nikolai Platonovich Patrushev - Director of the FSB of Russia (also after Vladimir Putin).
On November 20, 1999, Nikolai Patrushev was appointed to the post of deputy chairman of the Federal Anti-Terrorism Commission.
From January 2001 to August 2003, Nikolai Platonovich headed the Operational Headquarters for managing counter-terrorism operations in the North Caucasus region.
Nikolai Patrushev’s track record includes the position of head of the task force to strengthen public security, protect the population from terrorism in the Stavropol Territory and the Karachay-Cherkess Republic and provide emergency assistance to citizens affected by terrorist attacks (2001), membership in the Maritime Board under the Russian government (2003) , Commission on Military-Technical Cooperation of the Russian Federation with Foreign States (2007), Council under the President of the Russian Federation for the Development of Physical Culture and Sports (since 2007), elite sports, preparation and holding of the XXII Winter Olympic Games and XI Winter Paralympic Games in 2014 in the city of Sochi.
On May 12, 2008, Nikolai Platonovich Patrushev was appointed to the post of Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.
On January 21, 2021, British High Court Judge Sir Robert Owen, during the announcement of the results of the public inquiry into the case of Alexander Litvinenko , said that the court had established that Litvinenko was killed by ex-officer of the State Security Service Andrei Lugovoi and his partner Dmitry Kovtun . Owen concluded that the murder was “most likely approved” personally by FSB head Nikolai Patrushev and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Sanctions against Nikolai Patrushev
On April 6, 2021, Patrushev was included in the US sanctions “Kremlin list” among 17 officials and 7 businessmen from Russia close to Vladimir Putin.
Nikolai Patrushev believes that the publication by the US Treasury of the list of persons included in the “Kremlin Report” will negatively affect relations between Moscow and Washington, but will not in any way affect the foreign policy pursued by Russia.
In addition, he believes that this publication was only an attempt by the administration of the current American President Donald Trump to distract public attention from the internal problems of the United States with a far-fetched external threat.
“The course taken by the United States in regional and international affairs, which includes countering such imaginary external threats as Russia and China, is intended, first of all, to divert the attention of ordinary Americans from the difficult internal situation in the United States,” he said.
According to Patrushev, uncoordinated actions of departments and ministries in the United States lead to the accumulation of internal problems and contradictions that the current authorities are unable to effectively resolve, Interfax reported.
Views of Nikolai Patrushev
In an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda, Nikolai Patrushev spoke about the “demonization” of people who began their career in the special services when they came to the highest echelons of power.
“The appearance on Staraya Square, in the Kremlin and in the regions of people who have gone through the school of leadership work in national security structures is a vital need to inject “fresh blood” into the administrative corps of Russia, a desire to tap into the potential of responsible and organized people who, despite everything, have retained "spirit of public service". I know many of them well. These are modern-minded, educated people. Not weak-willed idealists, but tough pragmatists who understand the logic of the development of international and domestic political events, ripening contradictions and threats. At the same time, they well understand the impossibility of returning to the old, the need to develop the country on the basis of a reasonable combination of liberal and traditional values,” says Nikolai Patrushev.
In that interview, Patrushev expressed the concept of “neo-nobles”.
“Our best employees, the honor and pride of the FSB, do not work for money. When I have to present government awards to our guys, I carefully look at their faces. High-brow intellectual analysts, broad-shouldered weather-beaten special forces soldiers, silent explosives experts, strict investigators, reserved counterintelligence officers... Outwardly they are different, but there is one important quality that unites them - they are service people, if you like, modern “neo-nobles,” he said then director of the FSB.
By the way, as Sobesednik wrote, “in 2007, the head of the Russian Imperial House of Romanov, Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna, granted Nikolai Patrushev a noble title.”
Nikolai Patrushev took the initiative to create an “Internet squad” of patriotic bloggers to conduct online educational work among children and youth.
According to his plan, official resources of the regional leadership should be involved in this work.
“We should also more actively use the capabilities of public organizations in the work of patriotic and spiritual-moral education of children and youth, think through measures within the framework of the volunteer movement to create an institute of so-called “Internet vigilantes,” attracting for this active Internet users from among bloggers,” - RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.
Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev believes that the new US national security strategy is imposing on the world the principles of the Cold War era, the main goal of which is to aggressively push through its economic interests in the world.
“Behind the images of aggressor countries imposed by Washington are real economic interests and the same expansionist attitudes of the Cold War that have not changed for decades,” the media quoted him as saying.
Earlier, Nikolai Patrushev warned that the United States was preparing a color revolution in Russia.
Nikolai Patrushev noted that Victoria Nuland , an assistant to John Kerry , then US Secretary of State, mentioned the amount of $5 billion spent by America to “support democratic institutions and civil society.” In fact, this means organizing a change of power.
“There was a legally elected president, whether someone liked him or not is a matter of assessment, but he was elected legally, and no one denied this. But the USA was not happy with it. And, although his presidency was coming to an end and the people of Ukraine would not have re-elected him, they decided to overthrow him by force. This was their political mistake. If they had waited, they would have been able to get the people they needed through the legal route. But they initiated a coup. There would be no coup, there would be no events in Crimea and eastern Ukraine,” the Secretary of the Security Council commented on the situation in “Nezalezhnaya”.
Nikolai Patrushev said that the Ukrainian national security strategy until 2021 implies a long confrontation with Moscow. The official noted that the document sets the task of abandoning the non-aligned status, transferring the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the military industry to NATO standards. “The goal of educating Ukrainian youth in the spirit of hatred towards Russia was noted. And this cannot but worry us,” the media quoted Patrushev as saying.
Nikolai Patrushev reported in 2015 that in the CIS countries there are laboratories subordinate to US structures for the creation of military biological weapons. “The number of laboratories that are under the jurisdiction of the United States and which they manage has increased 20 times. Including a number of laboratories under their leadership that operate on the territory of the CIS republics,” Patrushev informed.
In 2015, at a retreat in Vladivostok, Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev said that regional governors should take action in connection with the use of resources such as Google, Yahoo and WhatsApp by officials to resolve official issues. According to him, the use of resources located abroad poses a serious danger. This does not allow for sufficient protection of state and municipal information systems, especially since computer attacks against them have become more frequent in recent years.
Family and personal life of Nikolai Patrushev
Nikolai Platonovich Patrushev is married and has two sons.
Wife - Patrusheva Elena Nikolaevna - doctor, ultrasound specialist.
The eldest son Dmitry has been the Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation since May 18, 2021.
The youngest son Andrei graduated from the Academy of the FSB of Russia in July 2003, worked at the FSB of Russia in the so-called “industrial” department, and in September 2006 was appointed advisor to the director of Rosneft Igor Sechin . Andrey Patrushev was Deputy General Director for the development of offshore projects in. Then Andrey Patrushev was appointed chairman of the board of directors of TsentrKaspneftegaz, a joint venture of Gazprom and LUKOIL.
The name of Nikolai Patrushev’s nephew, Alexei Patrushev , appeared in the Panama Papers. He was a shareholder of the offshore company Misam Investments Ltd, Sobesednik reported.
Nikolai Platonovich loves to read, but prefers “short forms” due to lack of time. Nikolai Patrushev loves the stories of Chekhov and Zoshchenko.
Personal life
Patrushev Nikolai, whose wife Elena is a doctor by training, has two sons. The spouse owns a plot of land whose area is more than 4,500 square meters. m. in the village of Serebryany Bor. It is located next to the mansions of Sechin and Alekperov. The media published information that Patrushev’s wife worked in the structures of Vnesheconombank. This information is documented in the employment tax register. In 1993, she founded Borg LLP together with some former KGB employees and her husband’s classmate Gryzlov. The procurement and processing of recyclable materials was documented as a statutory activity.
The children of Nikolai Patrushev are graduates of the FSB Academy, both bankers. The eldest son became deputy prime minister of VTB in 2006. Dmitry Nikolaevich supervised interaction with large state-owned companies. Since 2010, he has been appointed chairman of the board of Rosselkhozbank, 4th in the country in terms of assets. His appearance in this position was preceded by a prosecutor's investigation. After his appointment, a fairly large number of leading managers left the bank, including Elena Skrynnik (Minister of Agriculture) and Kulik (Deputy Chairman of the Board). With the arrival of Dmitry Patrushev, the supervisory board of Rosselkhozbank was headed by Zubkov. The youngest son carried out his activities in the 9th division of the “P” management under the leadership of his father. He oversaw the situation in the oil industry. In 2006, Andrei Patrushev, by then a captain in the FSB, was appointed advisor to the chairman of the board of directors of Rosneft on information security issues. After 7 months, according to some sources, he was awarded the Order of Honor. According to other sources, he was awarded an award for participating in an air expedition to the South Pole.
Son-minister and son-businessman
Nikolai Patrushev has two sons. The eldest - Dmitry Patrushev - since May 18, 2021, Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation. On January 21, 2020, he was reassigned to this post.
In 2006, he graduated from the FSB Academy, since 2007 he served as senior vice president of VTB Bank, and in 2021 he became a member of the board of directors of Gazprom.
In 2010-2018, Dmitry Patrushev was also the chairman of the board and member of the supervisory board of OJSC Rosselkhozbank.
The youngest son of Nikolai Patrushev, Andrei Patrushev, graduated from the FSB Academy in 2003 and worked for some time in this department. In September 2006, he was appointed advisor to Rosneft director Igor Sechin. Then he joined the board of Gazprom Neft. He left this position in 2021, after which he became the direct owner of a 6.25% stake in Transtelesoft LLC, which specializes in the implementation and development of high-tech solutions for industry.
