This is stated in a message published on the UFSIN website in the Ulyanovsk region.

“On August 25, in the 91st year, the legendary major general of the internal service Vasily Snytserev passed away,” the department said.

In June, the former first deputy chairman of the KGB of the USSR and the head of the fifth, so-called ideological department, Army General Philip Bobkov died in Moscow.