Lazar Lazarevich Matveev (

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: Ла́зарь Лазаре́вич Матве́ев; born 17 April 1927) is a former Soviet intelligence leader. He served as a senior

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liaison officer to the

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, during 1982 to 1989, where

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, the current President of Russia, worked for him. On Matveev's 90th birthday, Russian President

and his former

colleagues Sergey Chemezov and

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who also worked for Matveev, visited him in his home in Zhulebino,

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to celebrate his birthday. Putin brought him a wrist watch with the presidential coat of arms and a rare copy of the

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newspaper that was published on 17 April 1927 – the day Matveev was born.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Matveev, Lazar People from Krasnoyarsk Krai 1927 births Living people KGB officers