Draft:Leonid Erin
Leonid Tikhonovich Erin | |
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| Леони́д Ти́хонович Е́рин Леанід Ціханавіч Ерын | |
| Chairman of the State Security Committee of the Republic of Belarus | |
| In office 27 November 2000 – 18 November 2004 | |
| President | Alexander Lukashenko |
| Prime Minister | Vladimir Yermoshin Gennady Novitsky Sergei Sidorsky |
| Preceded by | Vladimir Matskevich |
| Succeeded by | Stepan Sukhorenko |
| Head of the State Security Service of the President of Belarus | |
| In office 25 September 2000 – 27 November 2000 | |
| President | Alexander Lukashenko |
| Prime Minister | Vladimir Yermoshin |
| Preceded by | Uladzimir Navumau |
| Succeeded by | Gennady Nevyglas |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 17 November 1951 Orsha, Vitebsk region, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union (now Belarus) |
| Education | Belarusian State University of Transport Academy of Foreign Intelligence |
| Occupation | Politician Policeman |
| Military career | |
Leonid Tikhonovich Erin (Belarusian: Леанід Ціханавіч Ерын; born 17 November 1951) is a Belarusian politician
Early life
[edit]Erin was born on 17 November 1951 in Orsha in the Vitebsk Region, which was then part of the Byelorussian SSR at the time of his birth.[1] After graduating from the Belarusian Institute of Railway Engineers in 1973, he started working in the locomotive depot of the Sverdlovsk station.[2] In 1974 he started working for the KGB of the BSSR.[2] From 1975 to 1986 he then started working for the KGB in the Vitebsk region.[3]
From 1982 to 1985 he was an employee of the Operational Group of the KGB in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, where he particularly worked in the Kaldar District.[4][5] Afterwards, he returned to his previous position of being an employee of the KGB of the BSSR in the Vitebsk Region from 1985 to 1988.[4] From 1989 to 1991 he then worked in the central office of the KGB, and after the collapse of the Soviet Union starting working in the FSB and headed the FSB in Moscow and for the entire Moscow region until 1995.[6] However, he returned to Belarus in 1995.[6] On 20 October 1995 he was appointed Deputy Chairman of the State Security Committee of the Republic of Belarus.[7]
Political career
[edit]Chairman of the KGB
[edit]Post-politicial career
[edit]Personal life
[edit]Honours and awards
[edit]International sanctions
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Кто есть кто в Беларуси (in Russian). Мэджик Бук. 2001. p. 100. ISBN 978-985-6544-16-6. Retrieved 13 June 2025.
- ^ a b "ЕРИН Леонид Тихонови" (PDF). elib.bsu.by. Retrieved 13 June 2025.
- ^ "Глава КГБ не вернулся из отпуска". Kommersant (in Russian). 19 November 2004. Retrieved 13 June 2025.
- ^ a b Щит и меч Отечества (in Russian). Междунар. центр интеграционной информации. 2006. p. 277. ISBN 978-985-6715-24-5. Retrieved 13 June 2025.
- ^ Krushinskiĭ, I͡Uriĭ (2006). Афганский дневник (in Russian). Академвидав. p. 82. ISBN 978-966-8226-34-2. Retrieved 13 June 2025.
- ^ a b "Лукашенко хочет КГБ без тормозов". Газета (in Russian). 18 November 2004. Retrieved 13 June 2025.
- ^ "Законодательство Республики Беларусь – Normativka.by". normativka.by. Retrieved 13 June 2025.