predecessor successor death_date birth_place death_place nationality party office birth_date term_start premier image article_title term_end name
vladimir kryuchkov vladimir kryuchkov vadim bakatin vyacheslav gurgenov 30 march 2012 -lrb- 77 years -rrb- moscow , soviet union troyekurovskoye cemetery , moscow , russia soviet and russian communist party of the soviet union acting head of the foreign intelligence service of the kgb ussr chairman of the committee for state security the 24 march 1935 22 august 1991 6 february 1989 ivan silayev 250px leonid shebarshin
 23 august 1991 22 september 1991 leonid shebarshin Леонид Шебаршин
leonid shebarshin

leonid vladimirovich shebarshin -lrb- 24 march 1935 -- 30 march 2012 -rrb- became head of the first chief directorate of the kgb in january 1989 , when the former fcd chief , vladimir kryuchkov , was promoted to kgb chief .
prior to that , shebarshin had served as kryuchkov 's deputy from april 1987 .
he died on 30 march 2012 in moscow .
