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Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kryuchkov (Russian: Влади́мир Алекса́ндрович Крючко́в; 29 February 1924 – 23 November 2007) was a Soviet lawyer, diplomat, and head of the KGB, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU.
Nov 25, 2007 · Vladimir Kryuchkov, the former KGB chief who spearheaded a failed coup against Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, has died at 83, Russia's foreign intelligence service said Sunday.
Nov 26, 2007 · MOSCOW, Nov. 25 — Vladimir A. Kryuchkov, who as the K.G.B. chief denounced perestroika as a menace to the Soviet Union and then took matters into his own hands by helping to spearhead a...
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Vladimir A. Kryuchkov. Soviet politician. Learn about this topic in these articles: Soviet coup of 1991. In KGB: Creation and role of the KGB. …KGB officers, including KGB chairman Vladimir Kryuchkov, played key roles in an abortive coup designed to return the Soviet system to ideological and bureaucratic purity.
Nov 27, 2007 · Vladimir Kryuchkov, the former head of the KGB who has died at the age of 83, was the moving force behind the abortive coup of August 1991, designed to oust President Mikhail Gorbachev and...
Nov 26, 2007 · MOSCOW — Vladimir Kryuchkov, who as the KGB chief denounced perestroika as a menace to the Soviet Union and then took matters into his own hands by helping to spearhead a coup against Mikhail S....
kryuchkov, vladimir alexandrovich (b. 1924), Soviet police official; head of the KGB from 1988 to 1991. Born in Volgograd , Russia , Vladimir Kryuchkov joined the Communist Party in 1944 and became a full-time employee of the Communist Youth League ( Komsomol ).
