Oleg Safonov

Oleg Safonov
Олег Сафонов
State Secretary - Deputy Director of the Federal Drug Control Service of the Russia
In office 12 June 2009 – 2016
Preceded by	Aleksandr Fyodorov
Succeeded by	position abolished
3rd Russian Presidential Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District
In office 29 October 2007 – 30 April 2009
Preceded by	Kamil Iskhakov
Succeeded by	Viktor Ishayev
Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs
In office 14 November 2006 – 29 October 2007
Auditor of the Accounts Chamber of Russia
In office 18 March 2005 – 7 March 2007
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Personal details
Born	Oleg Aleksandrovich Safonov (1960-08-24) 24 August 1960 (age 61) Ulyanovsk, Russia, Soviet Union
Political party	United Russia

Oleg Aleksandrovich Safonov (Russian: Олег Александрович Сафонов, born August 24, 1960 in Ulyanovsk, Soviet Union) is a Russian official. In 1982 he graduated from the Border Guards Higher School of the KGB in Moscow and subsequently served for the KGB until 1991. It is sometimes claimed that for some time he served in Dresden together with Vladimir Putin.^[1] In 1991-1994 he worked under Vladimir Putin in the Committee for the External Relations of the Saint Petersburg Mayor's Office. From November 14, 1996, to October 30, 2007, Safonov was a deputy Interior Minister of Russia, appointed by President Putin. On October 30, 2007, Vladimir Putin appointed him plenipotentiary envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District.^[2] Safonov was believed to be married to a daughter of Viktor Ivanov. However, in April 2009, an article indicated that Oleg Safonov's wife was named Lyudmila Gennadayevna. An alternate theory is that the Safonovs' daughter, Elizabeta, is married to Viktor Ivanov's son, Yaroslav.^[3]

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