Lazar Matveev
Lazar Matveev | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Lazar Lazarevich Matveev |
| Born | May 8, 1927 Krasnoyarsk Krai, RSFSR, Soviet Union |
| Allegiance |  Soviet Union |
| Service | KGB |
Lazar Lazarevich Matveev (Russian: Ла́зарь Лазаре́вич Матве́ев; born 8 May 1927) is a former Soviet intelligence leader. He served as a senior KGB liaison officer in Dresden, East Germany during 1985 to 1990, where Vladimir Putin, the current President of Russia, worked for him.[1]
On the 8th May 2017, on Matveev's 90th birthday, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his former KGB colleagues Sergey Chemezov and Nikolay Tokarev who also worked for Matveev, visited him in his home in Zhulebino, Moscow to celebrate his birthday. Putin brought him a wrist watch with the presidential coat of arms and a rare copy of a Pravda newspaper that was printed in 1927 – the year Matveev was born.[2][3]
References
- ^ Politike.ru | Лазарь Матвеев | http://politike.ru/termin/matveev-lazar-lazarevich.html
- ^ RT | Putin visits his former KGB boss on his 90th birthday | https://www.rt.com/viral/387578-putin-kgb-boss-birthday/
- ^ Kremlin.ru | http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/54464