Viktor Trufanov Explained

Viktor Trufanov
Виктор Труфанов
Office:Head of the Russian Coast Guard
Term Start:2006
Term End:2011
Predecessor:Vyacheslav Serzhanin
Successor:Yuri Alexeyev
Birth Date:6 December 1952
Birth Place:Borovsky, Kazakh SSR (now Kazakhstan)
Alma Mater:Dzerzhinsky 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

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

His state awards:

and series of departmental awards and commemorative.

Notes and References

  1. http://www.rferl.org/content/US_Warship_Conducts_Joint_Training_With_Georgia/1972338.html Trufanov react to U.S. Warship that Conducts Joint Training With Georgia