What is Lazar Matveev?
[[File:Lazar Matveev (08-05-2017).jpg|right|200px]] '''Lazar Lazarevich Matveev''' ([[Russian language|Russian]]: Ла́зарь Лазаре́вич Матве́ев; born 17 April 1927) is a [[Russia]]n intelligence leader and former Soviet intelligence leader. He was a senior [[KGB]] liaison officer during 1982 to 1989. He was the boss of [[Vladimir Putin]] when Putin worked for the KGB.<ref>Politike.ru | Лазарь Матвеев | http://politike.ru/termin/matveev-lazar-lazarevich.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210305001201/https://www.politike.ru/termin/matveev-lazar-lazarevich.html |date=2021-03-05 }}</ref><ref name=90birthday>{{cite news | title = Putin visits his former KGB boss on his 90th birthday (VIDEO) | url = https://www.rt.com/viral/387578-putin-kgb-boss-birthday/ | work = RT | date = May 8, 2017 | access-date = December 9, 2017}}</ref> Matveev was born in [[Krasnoyarsk Krai]], [[Soviet Union]]. ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Matveev, Lazar}} [[Category:1927 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:KGB people]] [[Category:Russian military people]] [[Category:Soviet military people]] [[Category:People from Krasnoyarsk]] {{bio-stub}}