Director of the Federal Security Service of Russia Bortnikov Alexander: biography, photo

Bortnikov Alexander - one of the most classified persons of the Russian politic. This is a real gray cardinal of the country. A person who has great influence, but is not at all public. However, he is obliged to this position - he is the director of the FSB of Russia and a kGB man with forty years of experience. About the biography, career and personal life of this famous person and our article will tell.

Childhood and youth Bortnikova

About the origin and the childhood years of the country's chief efesbesnik practically nothing is known, in contrast, for example, from his predecessor - Mr. Patrushev. Official sources only indicate that Alexander Bortnikov, whose biography began on November 15, 1951, was born in Perm and is Russian by nationality even during the life of the great leader of the peoples Joseph Stalin.

Even the ubiquitous journalists are silent on this topic - either they do not know, or for some reason keep quiet. The only thing that leaked into the media space is the characterization of the young Bortnikov. He was a modest and quiet child, he did not like public activity, and he succeeded in learning only by diligence, diligence and diligence.

The same can be said about the student years that Alexander Bortnikov held at the Leningrad Institute of Railway Engineers. Obraztsova.

Start of work

It is not known whether Bortnikov dreamed of becoming a railwayman since childhood or the choice of a university was completely random, but after graduating from the institute in 1973 he took a job in his specialty and worked diligently at the enterprises of Gatchina in the Leningrad region.

It is possible that Bortnikov did not intend to connect fate with this sphere of life, but simply worked out the time for the distribution. One way or another, but two years later his life is drastically changing.

KGB

It is rumored that the quiet and inconspicuous Bortnikov Alexander was recruited by the State Security Committee in his student years. Then such practice was widespread in the Soviet Union - the employees of the bodies selected personnel in universities, stopping, perhaps, not on the most gifted, but on the disciplined and diligent. And all this is similar to the truth, since already in 1975 the "rookie" receives a crust of the Higher School of the KGB of the USSR. Dzerzhinsky. By the way, at the same time, the young strategist (obviously with a vision for the future) joined the ranks of the Communist Party, of which he was a member until its dissolution.

And in the same 1975 Alexander Bortnikov, whose photo is still hardly known to anyone, joined the KGB Directorate for the Leningrad Region. On the corridors of the most mysterious building in the city on the Neva, he walked almost 20 years. In the same place, I probably met Vladimir Putin, with whom they are almost the same age. The current president of Russia has played a significant role in the career growth of his not even a friend - just a good friend. But before the collapse of the Soviet Union, Bortnikov's service did not differ in special highs. At first he was an ordinary opera, then he occupied at least leadership positions, but rather small ones.

Federal Security Service for St. Petersburg

But after 1991, things began to stir. Bortnikov Alexander, diligent and patient officer (now) of the FSB in St. Petersburg and the region, rose first to the deputy chief of this organization. After a while he became its leader. He became the main St. Petersburg chekist in 2003, replacing Sergei Smirnov in this post . The latter was transferred to Moscow.

But Alexander Vasilievich did not have long to work in St. Petersburg. In 2004, Vladimir Putin remembered him and took the old acquaintance closer to himself.

On the approaches to the summit

On February 24, 2004, Bortnikov took over the post of deputy director of the FSB of the Russian Federation, which before belonged to Yuri Zaostrovtsev, who was fired as a result of a corruption scandal. Alexander Vasilyevich headed the department for counterintelligence support of the credit and financial sphere of the Federal Security Service.

However, on this post he remained only a month. In March, the department was liquidated, and its head was transferred to the post of director of the economic security service , which in fact meant a demotion.

But Bortnikov was not upset about this. As usual, he showed maximum excerpt and was soon rewarded. In 2006, he was awarded the rank of army general, and in 2008 he took such a position, which can only be dreamed of ...

Head of the Federal Security Service Alexander Bortnikov: a new stage in his career

In 2008, Dmitry Medvedev became the president of Russia. And this year was significant not only for him, but for Alexander Bortnikov. He was appointed director of the FSB.

In this position he replaced Nikolai Patrushev, whose activities did not satisfy the previous president of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin. Nikolay Platonovich showed too much activity, often flashed on television, and many of his actions were not coordinated with the country's leadership. As a result, he lost his seat of the chief security officer of Russia and was transferred to the secretaries of the State Security Council. On a post more fictitious than real. And his successor took up real business.

The main activities of the director of the FSB Bortnikov

Director of the Federal Security Service Alexander Bortnikov received the authority of the country's chief security officer at a time that was not easy for Russia. In the south, the war in Chechnya continued to smolder , and the state was undermining the increasing number of terrorist acts from within. And with all this it was necessary to do something ...

In mid-spring of 2009, President Medvedev signed a decree on the cancellation of the Chechen counter-terrorist operation, which lasted ten years. It was Alexander Bortnikov - director of the FSB of the Russian Federation - who had to take the implementation of this decision into practice. In the autumn of 2009, the leadership of the operational headquarters of the security service of Chechnya passed to the central body.

Slowly the flames came to naught, and the Chechens returned to normal life. And those who tried to interfere with them, the FSB tracked and caught. But terrorism has not disappeared. In the country, as well as under Patrushev, houses, trains, metro stations and other objects continued to explode. Human victims did not become less.

And although the head of the FSB of Russia Alexander Bortnikov in his reports regularly spoke about the fact that the struggle is effective and more than half of the terrorist acts can be prevented, but the facts remain facts. In March 2010, an explosion in the Moscow metro killed forty people, and in Kizlyar (Dagestan), about the same time, 12 died. In early winter of 2011, a bomb explosion carried to the Domodedovo airport by a suicide bomber led to 37 casualties. 9 inhabitants and guests of Grozny said goodbye to their lives during the August terrorist attacks in Grozny in the same year.

May and August of 2012 became blood-black for Dagestan and Ingushetia. There were killed 13 and 8 people respectively. And at the end of 2013, the attention of the whole world was focused on Volgograd, where the terrorists first blew up the bus, then set off the bomb at the railway station, and a day later the bus exploded. The total number of victims was 32, with more than a hundred injured. And this is not yet a complete list of the terrible acts of terrorists.

The FSB admits that it is not easy to defeat terrorism, as bandits constantly recruit more and more new minions. But his work is rather positive, rather than vice versa.

Scandalous stories with Bortnikov's participation

The current director of the Russian FSB, Alexander Bortnikov, was involved in two high-profile stories. Both of them took place even before his appointment to the post of chief Chekist of the country in 2008, and both are not confirmed by the facts.

The first one is connected with Alexander Litvinenko, who spoke highly of the Russian authorities and eventually was poisoned by London. It is Bortnikova, the liberal political forces of Russia, like some foreign special services, who are accused of organizing this murder.

The second story concerns the money of Russian officials on offshore accounts abroad, which Alexander Vasilyevich allegedly helped to withdraw. And his participation in this turbid case, almost no one doubts, unlike the scandal with Litvinenko. However, there is no direct evidence of this.

The name of the first person of the FSB of Russia flashed in some other "entertaining" stories. But the loudest were the aforementioned two.

Personal life of the general

Alexander Bortnikov is married to Tatiana Borisovna Bortnikova, with whom they have lived happily together for more than forty years. To date, the wife of the director of the FSB is a pensioner.

The couple has a son, Denis, born in 1974, who at the moment is the head of the board of OJSC Bank VTB North-West. In the footsteps of his father, he did not go and the career of a Chekist preferred the fate of a financier, graduating from the St. Petersburg University of Economics and Finance in 1996 and immediately finding a job in the specialty.

Apparently, Denis Alexandrovich, as well as Alexander Vasilyevich, is a solid and consistent person. Both father and son, having chosen once the road, follow it to the very end. Of course, to the victorious.