16 Facts About Sergei Romanovtsev

Sergei Dmitriyevich Romanovtsev was an officer of the Soviet Armed Forces.

Sergei Romanovtsev saw action in the heavy fighting in the south of the Soviet Union, and distinguished himself in battle by repelling a number of counterattacks in 1944.

Sergei Romanovtsev remained in the military after the war, entering the reserves in 1947 and subsequently graduating from military schools.

Sergei Romanovtsev joined the KGB's foreign intelligence service in 1954, while being part of the diplomatic service with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, carrying out duties in Western Europe and North America.

Sergei Romanovtsev retired in December 1991 with the rank of polkovnik, and with numerous honours and awards.

Sergei Romanovtsev was born into the family of a gunsmith on 29 September 1925 in Tula, in the Russian Soviet Socialist Federative Republic.

Sergei Romanovtsev received a secondary level education, and worked in a local factory.

Sergei Romanovtsev joined the defence effort shortly after the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, and between July and August 1941 was deployed as part of the Tula youth detachment to build defensive structures along the Dnieper near the city of Dorogobuzh.

Sergei Romanovtsev was then deployed in defence of Tula in an anti-tank role, and in 1943 he joined the Red Army.

Sergei Romanovtsev underwent training at the 1st Moscow Machine Gun School, which had been evacuated to Ryazan, and was then deployed to the front in July 1943.

Sergei Romanovtsev remained in the military after the war, entering the reserves in 1947 and subsequently graduating from the Higher Military-Pedagogical Institute in 1952, and then the Academy of the General Staff in 1954.

Sergei Romanovtsev had been a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1944.

Sergei Romanovtsev joined the KGB's foreign intelligence service in 1954, while being part of the diplomatic service with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, carrying out duties in Western Europe and North America.

Sergei Romanovtsev began as assistant of the Second European Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and was later employed at the Soviet embassy in Canada from 1955 to 1958, the embassy in the USA from 1960 to 1965, and the embassy in Finland from 1972 to 1976.

Sergei Romanovtsev retired in December 1991 with the rank of polkovnik, the Soviet equivalent to colonel, and settled in Moscow.

Sergei Romanovtsev joined the United Russia political party on 19 February 2013.