Oleg Safonov


Oleg Aleksandrovich Safonov (Russian: Олег Александрович Сафонов, born August 24, 1960 in Ulyanovsk, Soviet Union) is a Russian official. In 1982 he graduated from the Border Guards Higher School of the KGB in Moscow and subsequently served for the KGB until 1991. It is sometimes claimed that for some time he served in Dresden together with Vladimir Putin.[1] In 1991-1994 he worked under Vladimir Putin in the Committee for the External Relations of the Saint Petersburg Mayor's Office. From November 14, 1996, to October 30, 2007, Safonov was a deputy Interior Minister of Russia, appointed by President Putin. On October 30 2007, Vladimir Putin appointed him plenipotentiary envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District.[2] Safonov was believed to be married to a daughter of Viktor Ivanov. However, in April 2009, an article indicated that Oleg Safonov's wife was named Lyudmila Gennadayevna. An alternate theory is that the Safonovs' daughter, Elizabeta, is married to Viktor Ivanov's son, Yaroslav. [3]

Oleg Safonov
Олег Сафонов
State Secretary - Deputy Director of the Federal Drug Control Service of the Russia
In office
12 June 2009  2016
Preceded byAleksandr Fyodorov
Succeeded byposition abolished
3rd Russian Presidential Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District
In office
29 October 2007  30 April 2009
Preceded byKamil Iskhakov
Succeeded byViktor Ishayev
Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs
In office
14 November 2006  29 October 2007
Auditor of the Accounts Chamber of Russia
In office
18 March 2005  7 March 2007
Preceded byAleksandr Kushnar
Succeeded byAleksandr Zhdankov
Personal details
Born
Oleg Aleksandrovich Safonov

(1960-08-24) 24 August 1960
Ulyanovsk, Russia, Soviet Union
Political partyUnited Russia

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