Rashid Nurgaliev

Date of Birth: 08.10.1956

Rashid Gumaryevich Nurgaliev – Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation since May 22, 2012. Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation (2004-2012).

Place of Birth. Education. Born in Dzhetigar, Kustanay Region (Kazakh SSR), in a family of police officers. He completed school in Nadvoitsy, Karelian ASSR. In 1979 he graduated from the Physical and Mathematical Faculty of Petrozavodsk State University named after O.B. Kuusinen. Doctor of Economic Sciences.

Career. 1979-1981 - Physics teacher at the school in Nadvoitsy, Karelian ASSR.

In 1981, he began his service in the KGB of the USSR in Karelia: he rose from the operational officer of the Kalevala District Association and the Kostomuksha city district to the head of the Medvezhyegorsk district association and the head of the anti-terrorism department of the Republic of Karelia.

Since 1995, he served in the central office of the Federal Intelligence Service and later the Federal Security Service: as the chief inspector of the organizational and inspection management, as the head of the internal security department.

1998-1999, he headed the main control department of the President of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin.

Since 1999, he led the department of the main control management to combat smuggling and illegal drug trafficking in the Department of Economic Security, later he was deputy director - head of the inspection management of the FSB of Russia.

In 2002, he was appointed First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia.

On March 9, 2004, he was appointed Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.

In May 2012, he resigned and handed over the office to General Vladimir Kolokolzev.

Since May 22 2012 - Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the RF.

Sanctions. Due to the war in Eastern Ukraine and direct support for the hostilities, Nurgaliev was placed on the European Union's sanctions list on July 25, 2014, as he 'was involved in shaping the policy of the Russian government that threatened the territorial integrity, sovereignty, and independence of Ukraine.'

Since April 6, 2022, he has been subject to personal US sanctions due to the large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. He is also on the sanctions lists of Ukraine, Japan, the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Switzerland.

Awards. Army General.

Family. Married, two children.

04.10.2023.