Commanders (in chief) – in the meaning of chief, commander, commanding general, supreme commander, or manager, etc. – of the border troops and organs of state security of the USSR and the RF were as follows.
First day of issue cover, 70th anniversary border troops KGB USSR, 1988
Artur Artuzov
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Artur Khristyanovich Artuzov was a leading figure in the Soviet international intelligence and counter-intelligence and security officer and spymaster of the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s.
Image of Artuzov on a commemorative Russian stamp, 2002