Lazar Matveev

Lazar Matveev
Matveev during meeting with Russian President Putin in 2017
Birth name	Lazar Lazarevich Matveev
Born	(1927-04-17) April 17, 1927 (age 94) 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 Russian intelligence leader and 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.^[1]

On the 8th May 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.^{[citation needed]}

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