Ivan Alexandrovich Serov was a Soviet intelligence officer who served as Chairman of the KGB from March 1954 to December 1958 and Director of the GRU from December 1958 to February 1963. Serov was NKVD Commissar of the Ukrainian SSR from 1939 to 1941 and Deputy Commissar of the NKVD under Lavrentiy Beria from 1941 to 1954.
- Occupation
- military personnel, politician, intelligence officer
- Position held
- Chairman of the KGB, deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the USSR
- Citizenship
- Russian Empire, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
- Born
- August 12, 1905
