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Lazar Matveev is a former Soviet military officer and politician who served as the Minister of Defense of the Soviet Union from 1984 to 1988. He was born in Krasnoyarsk Krai, RSFSR, Soviet Union (now Russia) on 17 April 1927. Matveev joined the Soviet Army in 1945 and served in the Far East Military District. He graduated from the Frunze Military Academy in 1954 and the General Staff Academy in 1965. He was promoted to the rank of General of the Army in 1984. Matveev served as the Minister of Defense of the Soviet Union from 1984 to 1988. During his tenure, he oversaw the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan and the reduction of the Soviet military. He also oversaw the modernization of the Soviet military and the development of new weapons systems. Matveev retired from the military in 1988 and was awarded the Order of Lenin and the Order of the Red Banner. He died on 28 April 2021 at the age of 94.

Popular As Lazar Lazarevich Matveev
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Age 97 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 17 April, 1927
Birthday 17 April
Birthplace Krasnoyarsk Krai, RSFSR, Soviet Union (Now Russia)
Nationality Russia

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1927

Lazar Lazarevich Matveev (Russian: Ла́зарь Лазаре́вич Матве́ев; born 17 April 1927) is a 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.

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.