political damage was great. Whatever the causes and circumstances of incidents, the resident is fully responsible for everything that happens at the station. On the flight AK was reported to Brezhnev. "Well," said Leonid Ilyich, "is a war and a war without the loss does not happen." Later life In 1983, Shebarshin returned to Moscow for a few months in the headquarters unit under the chief of the PGU Vladimir Kryuchkov and was appointed deputy chief of information-analytical department of intelligence. In 1984 Shebarshin, accompanying Kryuchkov, went on mission in Kabul belligerent. Until mid-1991, he had to commit more than 20 missions in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan to become intimately familiar, with the leaders of the country Babrak Karmal, Mohammad Najibullah, and Sultan Ali Keshtmand. In 1987, Shebarshin appointed deputy chief of PGU KGB and manages intelligence operations in the Middle East and Africa. In February 1989, he replaced Kryuchkov as vice president and he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general. In September 1991, as a result of differences with the new leadership of the KGB submits a report on the resignation and dismissed from military service. At the end of that year, together with his colleagues and friends – former chief of analytical department of the KGB, Lieutenant-General Leonov and former vice-president – Head of the Main Directorate of the KGB in Moscow and Moscow region, Lieutenant-General V. Prilukovym establish AO Russia national office of economic security." LV Shebarshin awarded the Order of the Red Banner (1981), Red Star (1970), the medal "For Military Merit" (1967), a "honorary member of the State Security" (1972). His name is immortalized in the museum's Foreign Intelligence Service. When KGB Chief Kryuchkov was arrested following the unsuccessful August 1991 coup against Mikhail Gorbachev, Shebarshin became head of the KGB for two days. RSFSR President Boris Yeltsin objected to the appointment and demanded a new candidate. He was replaced by Vadim Bakatin, whose job was essentially to dismantle the KGB. Shebarshin returned to his post as FCD head until Bakatin announced a new FCD deputy director, Vladimir Rozhkov, without consulting him. Shebarshin resigned his post on 20 September 1991. With his friend, Nikolai Leonov, Shebarshin founded a consulting firm, the Russian National Economic Security Service (RNESS), which is based in Moscow. He committed suicide in Moscow by shooting himself with his own gun. He was 77. By that time, he had