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Alexander Nikolayevich Shelepin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Шеле́пин; 18
August 1918 – 24
October 1994) was a
Soviet politician and
intelligence officer...
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Chairman of the KGB from
November 1961 to May 1967. A protégé of
Alexander Shelepin, he rose
through the
ranks of the
Communist Youth League (Komsomol). Semichastny...
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Aleksandr Shelepin (in office: 1958–1961), but
Shelepin carried out Brezhnev's
palace coup d'état
against Khrushchev in 1964 (despite
Shelepin not then...
- 1964. The conspirators, led by Brezhnev,
First Deputy Premier Alexander Shelepin, and KGB
chairman Vladimir Semichastny,
struck in
October 1964,
while Khrushchev...
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ambitions of
Alexander Shelepin, the
former chairman of the KGB and
current head of the Party-State
Control Committee. In
early 1965,
Shelepin began calling for...
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Bulganin Nikita Khrushchev Preceded by
Sergei Kruglov Succeeded by
Alexander Shelepin People's
Commissar for
Internal Affairs of the
Ukrainian SSR In office...
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State Security Ivan
Serov (March 13, 1954 –
December 8, 1958)
Alexander Shelepin (December 25, 1958 –
November 13, 1961)
Vladimir Semichastny (November...
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within the party. Due to this risk,
Brezhnev allied himself with
Alexander Shelepin, the KGB chairman, to
oppose both
Podgorny and Kosygin. Podgorny's position...
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directly from the
headquarters of the KGB in Moscow. At that time,
Alexander Shelepin was
Chairman of the
Committee for
State Security of the
Council of Ministers...
- Hero of the
Soviet Union "for the
special deed". The KGB boss
Alexander Shelepin presented all
these awards to Ramón
Mercader in person. In the aftermath...
