И.Г. СТАРИНОВ И ОРГАНЫ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОЙ БЕЗОПАСНОСТИ

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to study the activities of Colonel I. G. Starinov and his interaction with state secu-rity bodies aimed at forming a strategy and tactics of sabotage work. It is stressed that his methods of work became a benchmark for carrying out special actions to destroy the critical infrastructure of the enemy and elimi-nate the leaders of enemy military and administrative structures. A wide range of historical research methods, such as comparative and historical methods, comparative meth-ods and others are used. Starinov' s activity is consid-ered as a reflection of the epoch in the military history of Russia. During his life, Starinov was called «the genius of the explosion», «the god of sabotage», «the grandfather of the Russian special forces». Being on duty, at various stages of his career, I. G. Starinov was in close coopera-tion with the security bodies: the OGPU, the NKVD, the MGB and the KGB. This cooperation took place during his work on the training of sabotage personnel in the 1930s in the Ukrainian Military District, and during his business trip to Spain. During the Great Patriotic War, I. G. Starinov, together with NKVD officers, trained CHEKA officers for sabotage and partisan work. In the postwar period I. G. Starinov worked again with KGB officers on a teaching job. As a result, the authors come to the conclusion that the activity of I. G. Starinov became the basis for the formation of special services in Soviet Russia. The au-thors emphasize that Starinov’ s methods of work in the field of sabotage are so perfect that they are of great importance to the present day, and are still in practical use by modern state security bodies and the Armed Forces of Russia.