FSB Academy

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The FSB Academy (Russian: Академия ФСБ), in full the Academy of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (Russian: Академия федеральной службы безопасности Российской Федерации), is an education and research institution federally chartered to prepare Russian intelligence personnel for the Federal Security Service in particular and for the Russian Intelligence Community in general.

The academy was formed by presidential decree on August 24, 1992 on the foundation of the Higher School of the KGB, and is located in Michurinsky Prospekt, Moscow, Russia. It consists of the Institute of Cryptography, Telecommunications and Computer Science (Институт криптографии, связи и информатики, ИКСИ) and the Institute for Operational Training (Институт подготовки оперативного состава, ИПОС^[1]) in various facilities.^[2]

Colonel General Viktor Ostroukhov has been Head of the Academy from 2007 until 2019.^[3] It was then directed by Colonel General Yevgeny Sysoyev and since 2022 it has been directed by Lieutenant General Nikolay Vladimirovich Plotnikov.