Biography of Vladimir Bulavin
Vladimir Ivanovich Bulavin is a former KGB and Federal Reserve intelligence officer who oversees security and anti-terrorist operations in the Russian Federation. He was involved in stabilizing the situation in the North Caucasus. From 2013 to 2016 he acted as the representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the northwestern direction. In July 2021, he was appointed head of the Customs Service.
Head of the Federal Customs Service Vladimir Ivanovich Bulavin
Who is he - Bulavin Vladimir Ivanovich?
True, in the almost full two years that Vladimir Bulavin has been in office, a real revolution has not happened in the department. They began to talk less out loud about the scale of corruption, and it would be strange if such “subtle matters” became the subject of idle conversation.
But what is much more surprising is that Vladimir Bulavin was unable to reduce the conflict between the Federal Customs Service and the FSB to zero, although it would seem difficult to find a more ideal performer for this role. Moreover, the tension between departments has only worsened...
The early years of Vladimir Bulavin. Education
Vladimir Ivanovich Bulavin was born in the Lipetsk region. In 1975, he successfully graduated from the Institute of Railway Transport in Moscow with a degree in automation and remote control. In 1979, he received a diploma for completing 2-year foreign language courses as part of the training for the KGB of the USSR (Red Banner School of the USSR).
In 1999, Vladimir Ivanovich received a Candidate of Legal Sciences degree, having defended his dissertation at the Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Nizhny Novgorod. The topic of his dissertation: “National security of modern Russia.” After graduating from the Institute of Railway Transport, young Vladimir took the position of mechanical engineering design engineer in Pavlov.
Titles and awards
Ranks
- Colonel General (2007)
- Candidate of Legal Sciences (1999) - defended his dissertation on the topic “National Security of Modern Russia”
Awards
- Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III degree[10]
- Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree
- Order of Military Merit
- Medal "60 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
- Medal "70 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
- Medal "For Distinction in Military Service" (FSB) 1st class
- Medal "For Impeccable Service" II degree
- Medal "For Impeccable Service" III degree
- Badge "Honorary Counterintelligence Officer"
- Badge "For service in counterintelligence" II degree
- Badge "For service in counterintelligence" III degree
- Anniversary badge “70 years of INO - PSU”
- Anniversary badge “75 years of INO-PGU-SVR”
- Departmental awards of the Russian Federation
Career of Vladimir Bulavin in law enforcement agencies
From 1977 to 1992, Vladimir Bulavin served in the KGB of the Nizhny Novgorod region. Further, until 2006, he held the post of head of the FSB Directorate of this region and, at the same time, headed the Council of Chiefs of FSB Agencies of the Volga Region.
In 2006, Bulavin's career took off. Its competence included not only a separate region, but an entire country. Vladimir Bulavin was appointed deputy director of the Russian FSB, heading the headquarters of the country's anti-terrorism committee. In 2007, Vladimir Ivanovich received the rank of Colonel General of the FSB. In 2008, he took over as First Deputy Secretary for Security.
Vladimir Bulavin: working meeting with the President On March 11, 2013, Bulavin was honored to become the President’s representative in the Northwestern Federal District. The appointment of Vladimir Ivanovich to the position caused some confusion, because he was in charge of Nizhny Novgorod, and not St. Petersburg. But, as the Kremlin argued, such a rotation was necessary to improve the work of the Prosecutor General’s Office and strengthen control over officials in the northwestern direction. Speech by Vladimir Bulavin A key role in this appointment was once again played by the head of administration under President Vladimir Putin, Sergei Ivanov, who had already given positive recommendations when Bulavin was appointed deputy FSB in 2006 and 2008 (when he was selected for the post of Deputy Secretary of the Security Council).
The honorary title “Honorary Citizen of the Nizhny Novgorod Region” was awarded on November 28, 2021 (Resolution of the Legislative Assembly of the Nizhny Novgorod Region No. 1214-VI)
It fell to him to head the Russian FSB Directorate for the Nizhny Novgorod Region at a turning point for the country. Under him, Nizhny Novgorod opened its doors to foreigners, and probably not only tourists came to us. In addition, the “pocket of Russia” has always attracted large-scale swindlers, who invariably fell under the watchful eye of state security officials. He is not only a true professional in the highest sense of the word, he is a person who devoted the best years of his life to the struggle to ensure the security of such an important region as the Nizhny Novgorod region.
Bulavin Vladimir Ivanovich was born on February 11, 1953 in the village of Ploskoye, Stanovlyansky district, Lipetsk region.
In 1975, he graduated with honors from the Moscow Institute of Railway Engineers, Order of Lenin and Order of the Red Banner of Labor, with a degree in Automation and Telemechanics, after which he worked as a design engineer at the Pavlovsk Machine-Building Plant until 1977.
Since 1977 he served in state security agencies. After graduating in 1979 from the training courses for operational personnel with knowledge of a foreign language at the Higher Red Banner School of the KGB of the USSR, he was sent to operational work in the Directorate of the KGB of the USSR for the Gorky Region, where he served further.
In 1992, he was appointed head of the Russian FSB Directorate for the Nizhny Novgorod Region. Over the 15 years of work in this position, Vladimir Ivanovich made a significant contribution to ensuring state security policy in our region.
Dedication, in-depth analysis of problems and a responsible approach to business allowed the regional management under the leadership of V.I. Bulavin to achieve high results in his activities. Clearly aware of the importance and significance of the special service in ensuring the security of the Russian Federation, especially in the context of ongoing reforms, he carried out a huge amount of work on the reorganization and development of management, as a result of which the Russian FSB Directorate for the Nizhny Novgorod Region was recognized as one of the most effective territorial security agencies, and Vladimir Ivanovich was appointed chairman of the Council of Chiefs of the FSB of Russia in the Volga Federal District.
On the initiative of V.I. Bulavin in the 1990s, the efforts of the heads of security and law enforcement agencies were combined to stabilize the operational situation in the Nizhny Novgorod region. As a result of joint efforts, strict criminal legal control was introduced at enterprises in the region, which made it possible to suppress the rampant organized crime.
He organized work to prevent raider takeovers of city-forming enterprises and conducted major corruption investigations. Several terrorist attacks were stopped on the territory of Nizhny Novgorod, including the bombing of the Gorky-Moskovsky railway station in 2000. In 2004 alone, under his leadership, 11 members of international terrorist organizations were detained in the Nizhny Novgorod region.
In 2006 V.I. Bulavin was appointed deputy director of the FSB of Russia, head of the apparatus of the National Anti-Terrorism Committee. Two years later, on June 2, 2008, he became First Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. Since March 11, 2013 - Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Northwestern Federal District.
Since July 28, 2021, Vladimir Ivanovich Bulavin has been the head of the Federal Customs Service. In this position, he made the work of customs authorities more systematic and transparent in interaction with business. The actions he took allowed enterprises of the Nizhny Novgorod region to quickly optimize their production base using a modern machine park and create additional jobs in the region’s industry.
Candidate of Legal Sciences (1999), Colonel General (2007), Honored Employee of the Security Agencies of the Russian Federation (2010).
Vladimir Ivanovich Bulavin was awarded the orders “For Merit to the Fatherland” III (2012) and IV (2007) degrees, “For Military Merit” (2000), Alexander Nevsky (2018), the badge “Honorary Counterintelligence Officer”, “For Service in Counterintelligence” II degree, Gratitude of the President of the Russian Federation (2019), medals of the USSR and the Russian Federation.
Date published: June 1, 2021 Last updated:
Vladimir Bulavin as head of the Federal Customs Service
In July 2021, the previous head of the Federal Customs Service, Andrei Belyaninov, resigned on his own initiative. Shortly before this, his apartment was searched as part of a case of alcohol smuggling. Belyaninov was found to have an undeclared sum of money (rubles, dollars and euros) with a total value of 60 million rubles, as well as jewelry. He presented such impressive funds as his personal savings. Belyaninov’s removal from the post of head of customs was not long in coming. Search of Andrei Belyaninov After this, Dmitry Medvedev elected Vladimir Bulavin to the post of head of the Customs Service. Having received the position, Vladimir Ivanovich said that he would do everything in his power to justify the trust placed in him by the president and prime minister. It.
The appointment of Bulavin to the post is quite understandable. He is a security official, the same age as Vladimir Putin, and is a figure whom the President clearly trusts. Vladimir Bulavin is the new head of the Federal Customs Service
Rotation
In March 2013, a high-ranking officer became the Presidential Plenipotentiary Representative in the Northwestern Federal District of the Russian Federation. This appointment came as a surprise to many, because the general was responsible for Nizhny Novgorod for many years, but not for Northern Palmyra. However, according to the official Kremlin, such a step was due to the fact that in this area there was a need to strengthen control over the work of the Prosecutor General's Office and over local officials, whose work caused many complaints.
This appointment for Bulavin occurred thanks to the patronage of his long-time comrade Sergei Ivanov, who at that time was the head of the presidential administration of the country and had already repeatedly recommended that Vladimir Ivanovich be promoted.
Chief Customs Officer
On July 28, 2021, Vladimir Ivanovich Bulavin was appointed to the position of head of the Federal Customs Service of Russia. This appointment was accompanied by a number of events. The previous head of this regulatory body, Andrei Belyaninov, was forced to voluntarily resign. And all because 60 million rubles in foreign currency and a lot of jewelry were found in his apartment as part of a search carried out in connection with the case of smuggling of alcoholic beverages. And although Belyaninov stated that all this was his personal property, his removal from service was a decided matter.
Interesting fact
According to rumors, it was Vladimir Ivanovich Bulavin, the plenipotentiary representative of the head of the Russian Federation, who greatly contributed to the fact that his predecessor in the Federal Customs Service lost his position as chief.
Having become the new head of customs, the Colonel General publicly stated that he would make every effort to justify the trust placed in him by the President and Prime Minister. As Vladimir himself noted, the level of security of Russia and the filling of the budget will directly depend on his activities.
In principle, the appointment of Bulavin to this position can be easily understood: he, like Putin, comes from the FSB and is the person whom Vladimir Vladimirovich clearly trusts very much on many key issues.
