15 Facts About Yevgeny Zinichev

Yevgeny Nikolayevich Zinichev was a Russian politician and military officer.

Yevgeny Zinichev served as the Minister of Emergency Situations from 2018 until his death, and was a member of the Security Council of Russia.

Yevgeny Zinichev was last ranked General of the Army in 2020.

Yevgeny Zinichev was born in Leningrad on 18 August 1966.

Yevgeny Zinichev was a KGB officer from 1987 until 1991, and a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Yevgeny Zinichev worked at the Central Office of the Federal Security Service of Russia, going from operative officer to head of regional management.

From 2006 until 2015, Yevgeny Zinichev worked in the personal security of the Presidential Security Service, accompanying the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on working trips.

In June 2015, Yevgeny Zinichev was appointed Chief of the Federal Security Service of Russia in the Kaliningrad Oblast, replacing Alexander Kozlov in this post.

The official biography of Yevgeny Zinichev says that from 1987 to 2015, he "served in various positions in state security agencies".

On 28 July 2016, amid the largest staff rotation of 2016, President Putin appointed Yevgeny Zinichev as acting Governor of Kaliningrad Oblast.

On 7 October 2016, Yevgeny Zinichev was appointed deputy director of the FSB.

In December 2018, Yevgeny Zinichev was promoted to the rank of Colonel-General in the post of Minister of Emergency Situations.

Yevgeny Zinichev died on 8 September 2021 in Norilsk, aged 55, during the filming of an interdepartmental exercise to protect the Arctic zone of Russia.

Yevgeny Zinichev's death was the first case in the history of post-Soviet Russia of the death of an incumbent federal minister.

Yevgeny Zinichev was married, and had a son, a grandson and two granddaughters.