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Lazar Matveev
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Matveev in 2017
Birth name Lazar Lazarevich Matveev
Born (1927-04-17) April 17, 1927 (age 97)
Krasnoyarsk Krai, RSFSR, Soviet Union (Now Russia)
Allegiance  Soviet Union
Service/branch KGB

Lazar Lazarevich Matveev (Russian: Ла́зарь Лазаре́вич Матве́ев; born 17 April 1927) is a former Soviet intelligence leader. He served as a senior KGB liaison officer to the Stasi in Dresden, East Germany, during 1982 to 1989, where Vladimir Putin, the current President of Russia, worked for him.

Vladimir Putin and Lazar Matveev (08-05-2017)

On Matveev's 90th birthday, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his former KGB colleagues Sergey Chemezov and Nikolay Tokarev who also worked for Matveev, visited him in his home in Zhulebino, Moscow to celebrate his birthday. Putin brought him a wrist watch with the presidential coat of arms and a rare copy of the Pravda newspaper that was published on 17 April 1927 – the day Matveev was born.

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