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Oleg Vladimirovich Syromolotov (
Russian Russian(s) may refer to: *Russians (), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *A citizen of Russia *Russian language, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages *''The Russians'', a b ...
: Оле́г Влади́мирович Сыромо́лотов; born 19 May 1953) was Deputy Director of Russia's
Federal Security Service The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation �СБ, ФСБ России (FSB) is the principal security agency of Russia and the main successor agency to the Soviet Union's KGB; its immediate predecessor was the Federal Counterin ...
(FSB), the successor of the Soviet-era
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. He has headed the DKR, the organisation's
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branch. He was chief of security for the
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in
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. Syromolotov became major-general in the Russian Army on 18 December 1993. He rose through the ranks of the FSB, eventually becoming Director of Counterintelligence Support for the Transport Department of Economic Security. From 12 July 2000 until July 2004 he was Deputy Director of the Russian FSB − Federal Security Service chief of counterintelligence department. Syromolotov gave a rare interview on the 80th anniversary of the formation of Russia's first counterintelligence department in May 2002. He said that over the past two years, DKR personnel had caught 14 foreign agents and put some 260 foreign secret services employees under surveillance. Syromolotov was
colonel-general Colonel general is a military rank used in some armies. It is particularly associated with Germany, where historically general officer ranks were one grade lower than in the Commonwealth and the United States, and was a rank above full , but be ...
of the Army until early 2007, when he was promoted to
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alongside future FSB Director
Alexander Bortnikov Alexander Vasilyevich Bortnikov (; born 15 November 1951) is a Russian intelligence officer who has served as the Director of the Federal Security Service, director of the Federal Security Service (FSB) since 2008. He is one of the most powerfu ...
. On 28 April 2009 President
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issued Presidential Decree 468, which appointed Syromolotov as a member of the Presidential Council of the Russian Federation on the Development of Physical Fitness and Sports. He was also appointed by President Putin to head security for the XXII Olympic Winter Games and XI Paralympic Winter Games of 2014 in
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, and the XXVII World Summer Universiade 2013 in Kazan. His appointment came as a surprise to observers who expected that a
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specialist would be selected.


Honors

*2002 − Medal of Honor (Belarus) *2014 −
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Syromolotov, Oleg 1953 births Living people Federal Security Service officers Generals of the army (Russia) Recipients of the Paralympic Order Recipients of the Order of Courage (Russia) Deputy foreign ministers of Russia