During Soviet times, were labor and creative activity huge number of people.Among them is the general Tsvigun, whose biography is filled with many interesting facts, as well as ongoing career growth.
Biohronika S.K.Tsviguna
Semyon Kuzmich Tsvigun - statesman of the Soviet Union.In 1967 - 1982 years.- One of the deputy chairman of the KGB of the USSR.
Stratievka Born in the village (Vinnitsa region of modern Ukraine) in 1917 in a family of ethnic Ukrainians.
In 1937 graduated with honors from the Faculty of History of the Odessa pedagogical institute.
from 1937 to 1939.conducts labor activity as a teacher and director of the school in Odessa.
Since 1939 - the work of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs.
In December 1941, went to the front.He fought for the South, Don, Western, Stalingrad and other fronts.It was in partisan detachments.
In 1945 he began working in the Ministry of State Security of the Moldavian SSR.
From 1951 to 1953 worked gg.- GB First Deputy Minister of the Moldavian SSR.
in 1953-1955.- First Deputy Chairman of the KGB of the Moldavian SSR.
in 1955-1957.- Head of the KGB of the Tajik SSR.
in 1963-1967.He headed the KGB of the Azerbaijan SSR.
In 1967 he was appointed first deputy chairman of the KGB.
Since 1978 Tsvigun - General of the Army of the USSR Armed Forces.
January 19, 1982 dies by suicide.
Family
General Tsvigun Semen Kuzmich was married to a famous Soviet writer Rosa Mikhailovna Yermolyeva.Seeds Mikhail Kuzmich's son - fellow Russian Foreign Ministry, served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russia to Djibouti (from 1995 to 1999) and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (from 2003 to 2009.).
creative activity General
Besides his service in senior positions in the KGB, General Tsvigun also known as the author of books about spies working in the Great Patriotic War, the author of scripts for films about the war, memoirist.In 1973 and in 1979 published two books Seeds Tsvigun called "Covert Front" (1973) and "We will return (1979).They also personally wrote the screenplays for two well-known front-line of the film: "Front Without Flanks" (premiered in 1974) and "The front of the rear of the enemy" (premiered in 1981).
Tsvigun image in literature and cinema
Soviet writer Julian Semenov General used the image in his novel "Secrets of Kutuzovsky Prospect", which tells about the work of the security personnel.
In addition, in a joint novel Eduard Topol and Friedrich Neznanskiĭ "Red Square" there is a description of one of the many versions of the suicide of General.However, in the novel it was changed surname: Tsvigun appeared in the book as a general vigunah.
In 2004, based on the novel "Red Square" on the Russian screen came the eponymous TV series, in which the role played vigunah V.Hlevinsky.
Awards of the USSR and foreign countries
Semen Tsvigun - General, received numerous awards not only of the Soviet Union, but also in foreign countries.Below is a list of awards General:
In 1977 he received the title of Hero of Socialist Labor, and attached to the title of the medal "Hammer and Sickle."
the years, was awarded two Orders of Lenin, Order of the October Revolution.One of the few figures who received two Orders of the Red Star.
For screenplays in 1978 was awarded the State Prize of the RSFSR, and in 1979 - the Lenin Komsomol Prize.
Certainly, General Tsvigun is an interesting historical figure.They left a trace in the history of not only the USSR but also in the culture of the whole country.
Death Tsvigun
Officially, General Tsvigun in his later years suffered from lung cancer severe.
various rumors related to the circumstances of the death Tsvigun, emerged from the fact that the funeral procession was attended by family members not Brezhnev, and there was no obituary for the signature of the Secretary General.As a result, a version of which the seeds Tsvigun summoned to the Central Committee, to report that in the case of large-scale corruption in government some of the defendants testified that Tsvigun, KGB general, also is one of the accomplices.According to the assumptions, upon completion of the conversation in the Central Committee asked Semyon Tsvigun day to think about the situation, and then went to his home and made the fatal shot.
However, Vladimir Kryuchkov, the former chairman of the KGB, spoke of the death of General Tsvigun Semyon Kuzmich so:
«The tragedy, which occurred in 1982, gave birth to the people a lot of rumors and speculation.The fact that he showed a severe form of cancer.Send metastases, which affected his psyche.He understood that burned alive and 19 January put a bullet in his head.It was a very honest man, who was a true patriot.It is also the story of the corruption crimes should be taken for at least a speculation because Tsvigun - General.Novodevichy Cemetery in the first few days after his death, buried in flowers. "
