Hard childhood, war, hungry years became an impetus for him to study well, and an attempt to learn Indian culture turned into the meaning of life. Leonid Vladimirovich Shebarshin, after graduating from the Institute of International Relations, began his career as an attache interpreter in Pakistan. When the State Security Committee became interested in a capable young man as an employee, Leonid Vladimirovich considered it an honor and agreed to work for the good of his homeland. For two years he headed the foreign intelligence service. And with the collapse of the USSR, a career in the field of state security ended. At the age of 77, Leonid Vladimirovich committed suicide by shooting himself in his apartment.
Marina Grove
It was from this place that the life of the future intelligence officer and wit Leonid Vladimirovich began. Mother Shebarshina Praskovya Mikhailovna was born with Maryina Roshcha, she was born in 1909. After graduatingseven years old, went to work in an artel. In 1931 she married Vladimir Ivanovich, a native Muscovite. So, in 1935, Leonid was born, and a couple of years later - Valeria.
A family of four huddled in a little room on eight squares. Leonid, recalling that time, wrote that he sometimes had to sleep on the floor, as there was no place for a bed.
When my father was drafted into the army, life was difficult for a mother with two children. There was not enough bread, it was cold and hungry. But they were lucky: Vladimir Ivanovich returned from the front alive, although he was wounded. Life began to improve, the father got a job. But in 1951, Leonid's father died of an addiction to alcohol at the forty-third year of his life from a brain hemorrhage.
Study
Shebarshin Leonid Vladimirovich, whose biography began with a difficult childhood, being a schoolboy, understood that strength is in knowledge. Therefore, he read a lot (this habit was instilled in him by his father) and dreamed of helping his family: his mother and sister. Teaching was easy for him. In 1952 he received a certificate and a silver medal. At the same time, the entrance exams for students who graduated with honors were canceled.
The first speci alty that Leonid wanted to master was the profession of a military pilot-engineer. But upon admission, strict requirements were imposed on the he alth of the applicant. An attempt to study at the Zhukovsky Academy turned out to be a failure: the medical board advised Shebarshin not to risk it and take the documents. They justified this by saying that they will take it now, and later they will still be expelled according to the statehe alth.
On the recommendation of a friend, Leonid decides to enter the Institute of Oriental Studies at the Faculty of Indian Culture. In 1954, the institute was disbanded and all students were transferred to MGIMO.
Virgin soil
Becoming an international student, Leonid Vladimirovich Shebarshin had to spend more money on the road from Maryina Roshcha to the institute and back. The family still lived in poverty. At night, the young man had to unload the wagons. And when Leonid mastered the Urdu language, he was able to copy manuscripts, for which he received more money than for physical labor.
Life went on as usual: successful sessions, favorite reading, medieval translations. Until in 1956, the student was sent to Kazakhstan to harvest. Leonid got the position of assistant combine operator. During this period, students not only learned the price of bread, but also rallied and earned money. And Shebarshin Leonid Vladimirovich also met his future wife.
Nina Pushkina was a student from the Chinese department. They returned from the virgin lands as an inseparable couple and signed a few months later. And already the family went to practice in Pakistan.
Hello Asia
The art of diplomatic conversation Leonid Vladimirovich Shebarshin began to study in the city of Karachi. He was appointed interpreter and assistant to the ambassador. They lived with Nina in the embassy building. The room was rather bad: damp and small. But at that time, the Shebarshin couple believed that you couldn’t imagine a better home. In the summer of 1959, their son Alexei was born. Soon, the junior employee of the embassy, Leonid Vladimirovich, was transferred toattache position.
Wladimir was engaged in the domestic policy of Pakistan. And his knowledge of the Urdu language helped him in this. The long trip was coming to an end, and the family left Karachi in 1962, returning to Moscow.
Interesting offer
For four years in Asia, Leonid has grown professionally to the third secretary. And this is a significant achievement for a 27-year-old man. In Moscow, Shebarshin got a job at the Foreign Ministry in the department of Southeast Asia. Leonid's duties, as he himself wrote, consisted of boring official negotiations, correspondence and dreary party meetings. Compared to Pakistan, working in the Russian Foreign Ministry did not bring joy and was not interesting.
At that moment, Shebarshin received an offer to visit the KGB for a secret conversation. In the committee, he was offered to become a state security officer. So Leonid Vladimirovich got into the intelligence school.
Mastering a new profession
The future head of foreign intelligence, Leonid Vladimirovich Shebarshin, received theoretical and practical skills in the field of ensuring the country's security at the 101st intelligence school. Trained with him 5 people selected for this service.
Studied new disciplines, held practical classes in the city. The goal was to identify the observation, to communicate with the source, and to compile reports. All this required good physical preparation, fiction, emotionalexcerpts. During training, Leonid came up with a scheme for the operation, which was later awarded with a prize. Later he applied it in his work, and the scheme paid off.
In 1963, the Shebarshin family was given an apartment. A year later, Tatyana was born. She lived for 19 years and died of an asthma attack, having managed to give birth to her grandson.
Intelligence officer
Leonid Vladimirovich Shebarshin, being an employee of PSU, was sent to the internal political group of the embassy in Pakistan. Having shown successful results in his work, in 1968 he took retraining courses at the KGB Institute. Three years later, Leonid Vladimirovich is already the first deputy resident of state security in India. And from 1975 to 1977, he independently manages intelligence networks in India.
Work in Asia ended with the appointment of Leonid Vladimirovich as the head of the PGU KGB. This period (1989-1991) in the country was designated in history as an active stage of perestroika. In the intelligence department, the idea of friendly Soviet-American relations began to be imposed. Economic difficulties began, a shortage of goods. The superpower was losing the world leadership position.
After the August putsch 1991-25-08 Leonid Vladimirovich wrote a letter of resignation. These events marked the beginning of the creative activity of the chief of intelligence. In 1998, the book "Chronicles of Timelessness" was published, authored by Shebarshin Leonid Vladimirovich. The aphorisms of the chief intelligence officer of the USSR are relevant to this day. Another publication was the biographical book The Hand of Moscow, which was released in 1993.
In 2012L. V. Shebarshin shot himself from a premium pistol.
Leonid Vladimirovich Shebarshin: quotes
They say that the best creative works are created when their author is in a state of mental decline and disappointment. So Leonid Vladimirovich published a collection of aphorisms "Chronicles of Timelessness" after the experience of disappointment. The homeland, for the security of which he fought all his life, no longer exists. "Main adversary" (the term for the US in KGB circles) is now an ally.
Quotes:
- Has there been anything in the history of our state other than mistakes and crimes?
- Soviet power gradually descended to theft. Democracy started from him.
- They swore that they were building a new state, but they built only private dachas.
- The new leader is better than any old one - this is the axiom of Russian political science.
