Vladimir Kulishov

Vladimir Kulishov was born on 20 July 1957 in the Rostov Oblast.

In 1979, he graduated from the Kiev Institute of Civil Aviation Engineers, worked at the Rostov Civil Aviation Plant No. 412.

In August 1982, he has been serving in the state security agencies, as he graduated from the Higher School of the KGB of the USSR named after F. E. Dzerzhinsky.

Since 2000, he has worked in the central office of the FSB of Russia.

Since July 2003, he became the head of the FSB of Russia in the Saratov Oblast.

In 2004, 1st Deputy Head of the Department for Combating Terrorism of the 2nd Service of the FSB of Russia, later Head of the Department of the FSB of Russia for the Chechen Republic.

From August 2008 to March 2013, he was the deputy director of the FSB of Russia - Chief of Staff of the National Anti-Terrorism Committee.

In March 2013, TASS and RIA novisti first reported that Kulishov had been appointed as the First Deputy Director of the FSB of Russia - Head of the Border Guard Service of the FSB of Russia. He officially took office on 11 April.

On October 6, 2022, against the backdrop of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Kulishov was included in the EU sanctions list for "supporting and implementing actions and policies that undermine or threaten the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine." The European Union notes that under the leadership of Kulishov, employees of the Border Guard Service of the FSB of the Russian Federation took part in systematic "filtration" operations and forcible deportations of Ukrainians from the occupied territories of Ukraine, in addition, Russian border guards illegally subjected citizens of Ukraine to lengthy interrogations, searches and detentions.

He is also included in the sanctions lists of Switzerland, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

His wife, Inga Leonidovna Kulishova lives and works in Moscow. The couple has two sons and a daughter.