Viktor Trufanov

Viktor Trufanov
Виктор Труфанов
Head of the Russian Coast Guard
In office
2006–2011
Preceded byVyacheslav Serzhanin
Succeeded byYuri Alexeyev
Personal details
Born (1952-12-06) 6 December 1952 (age 71)
Borovsky, Kazakh SSR (now Kazakhstan)
Alma materDzerzhinsky KGB Higher School

Colonel General Viktor Trofimovich Trufanov (Russian: Виктор Трофимович Труфанов) was the Head of the Coast Guard Department of the Border Service of the Federal Security Service of Russia (2006-2011).

Biography[edit]

He was born in December 6, 1952 in the village of Borovsky in the Borovsky District of the Kostanay Region in Kazakhstan.

In 1974 Trufanov graduated from Alma-Ata Higher Command School of the KGB Border Guard. In 1984 he finished the KGB Dzerzhinsky Higher School (now the FSB Academy).

From 1974 to 2003 he served in the KGB of and in the Russian FSB.

In 2003 Trufanov was appointed as a deputy head of the Border Services of the Russian Federal Security Service.[1]

Viktor Trufanov is married with one daughter.

Awards[edit]

His state awards:

and series of departmental awards and commemorative.

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