 Until 2000 he had worked for the KGB and successor organizations to it.Until 1995 he had been the Chief of the Novosibirsk Oblast FSB Directorate, and later, in 1995 – 2000, led the Counterintelligence Department of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB), in 1997 – 2000 as a Deputy FSB Director.Pechyonkin has been promoted to Lieutenant General.