15 Facts About Vadim Bakatin

Vadim Viktorovich Bakatin was a Russian politician who served as the last chairman of the KGB in 1991.

Vadim Bakatin was the last surviving former chairman of this organization.

Vadim Bakatin was appointed to dismantle the KGB, but he was unable to control this organization and to fulfill the task due to political reasons.

Vadim Bakatin ran for the Russian presidency as an independent candidate in June 1991.

Vadim Bakatin was born in Kiselyovsk, Kemerovo Oblast, in 1937.

Vadim Bakatin graduated from the Novosibirsk Civil Engineering Institute and the Academy of Social Sciences under the CPSU Central Committee.

From 1960 to 1971, Bakatin was supervisor, chief engineer, and director of construction works.

Vadim Bakatin was appointed Minister of Interior of the Soviet Union in 1988, replacing Alexander Vlasov.

Vadim Bakatin had been put forth as a candidate for the Communist Party's nomination for the 1990 Soviet Union presidential election.

Vadim Bakatin's action was met with harsh criticism, including allegations of treason which were eventually retracted.

In 1992, Vadim Bakatin was appointed vice-president and director of the Department of Political and International Relations of the international "Reforma" fund.

Vadim Bakatin was a candidate in the 1991 Russian presidential election.

Vadim Bakatin ultimately placed last in the election out of six candidates, receiving 2,719,757 votes.

Vadim Bakatin, his grandson, was born on 24 June 1998 and was an international football player and played for AS Monaco FC at youth level.

Vadim Bakatin died on 31 July 2022 at a hospital in Moscow, Russia, at the age of 84.