US Intelligence agent Brandon Scofield and Soviet KGB agent Vasili Taleniekov make their way through the obstacles and ravages of a cabal known as the Matarese.

* Vasili Nikandrov — Vladimir I. Lenin

Vasili Stepanovich Osipanov ( Осипанов, Василий Степанович in Russian ) ( 2. 21 ( 3. 5 ). 1861, Tomsk — 5. 8 ( 20 ). 1887 ), Russian revolutionary, member of Narodnaya Volya.

In the first stage, certain Commonwealth szlachta ( nobility ) encouraged by some Russian boyars ( Russian aristocracy )— but without the official consent of the Polish king Sigismund III Vasa — attempted to exploit Russia's weakness and intervene in its civil war by supporting the impostors for the Tsardom, False Dmitriy I and later False Dmitriy II, against the crowned Tsars, Boris Godunov and Vasili Shuiski.

* Vasili Yurchenko — canoeing, men's C-1 1000m

* Vasili Yakusha — rowing, single sculls ( 1x ) men

* Vasili Yurchenko, and Yuri Lobanov — Canoe / Kayak, Men's Flatwater C-2 1000 m ( Canoe Doubles )

* Veniamin But, Nikolai Komarov, Vasili Tikhanov, Aleksandr Dumchev, Pavel Gurkovsky, Viktor Diduk, Viktor Omelyanovich, Andrei Vasiliev, Aleksandr Lukyanov — Rowing, Men's Eight With Coxswain

* Aleksandr Marchenko, Vasili Yakusha — Rowing, Men's Double Sculls

Nikolai Tikhonov, the Chairman of the Council of Ministers, was succeeded by Nikolai Ryzhkov, and Vasili Kuznetsov, the acting Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, was succeeded by Andrei Gromyko, the former Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Nikolai Tikhonov, the Chairman of the Council of Ministers, was succeeded by Nikolai Ryzhkov, and Vasili Kuznetsov, the acting Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, was succeeded by Andrei Gromyko, the former Minister of Foreign Affairs.

* 1928 – Vasili Lazarev, Soviet cosmonaut ( d. 1990 )

* Vasili Kuznetsov ( athlete ) ( 1932 – 2001 ), Soviet decathlete

* Vasili Kuznetsov ( politician ) ( 1901 – 1990 ), Soviet politician

According to Vasili Mitrokhin, a former KGB major and senior archivist in the KGB intelligence central KGB office in the Yasenevo area of Moscow, Allende made a personal request for Soviet money through his personal contact, KGB officer Svyatoslav Kuznetsov ( codenamed LEONID ), who urgently came to Chile from Mexico City to help Allende.

Soviet defector Vasili Mitrokhin alleged in the 1990s that the Goulding leadership sought, in 1969, a small quantity of arms ( roughly 70 rifles, along with some hand guns and explosives ) from the KGB.

The Mitrokhin Archive by Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, on the evidence supplied by Mitrokhin's transcribed versions of Top Secret KGB files, alleges that the Soviet Union was principal in falsely connecting E. Howard Hunt to the Kennedy Assassination.

He left the Cabinet after the 1992 general election, and returned to the backbenches where he served as Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Select Committee from 1994 – 2001, during which time KGB agent Vasili Mitrokhin defected to reveal 87-year-old Melita Norwood as a Soviet spy .< ref >

Vasili Nikitich Mitrokhin (; March 3, 1922 – January 23, 2004 ) was a Major and senior archivist for the Soviet Union's foreign intelligence service, the First Chief Directorate of the KGB, and co-author with Christopher Andrew of The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West, a massive account of Soviet intelligence operations based on copies of material from the archive.

They were released when, after secret negotiations, the Bulgarian communists Dimitrov, Vasili Tanev and Blagoi Popov tried in Leipzig were allowed to leave for the Soviet Union.

On February 2, 1940, Yezhov was tried by the Military Collegium chaired by Soviet judge Vasili Ulrikh behind closed doors.

Vasili Vasilyevich Kuznetsov (; 5 June 1990 ), Russian Soviet political figure ; acting chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1982 to 1983, for a second time in 1984, and for a third time in 1985.

Vasili Kuznetsov, at the age of 76, was unanimously approved by the Supreme Soviet as First Deputy Chairman of the Presidium.

According to Vasili Mitrokhin, a former KGB major and senior archivist in the KGB intelligence central KGB office in the Yasenevo area of Moscow, Allende made a personal request for Soviet money through his personal contact, KGB officer Svyatoslav Kuznetsov ( codenamed LEONID ), who urgently came to Chile from Mexico City to help Allende.

Vasili Mikhailovich Altfater () ( 16 December 1883 – April 20, 1919 ) was a Russian-Soviet naval officer, the first Commander-in-chief of the Soviet Navy.

According to Vasili Mitrokhin, a former KGB major and senior archivist in the KGB intelligence central of Yasenevo, Allende made a personal request for Soviet money through his personal contact, KGB officer Svyatoslav Kuznetsov, who urgently came to Chile from Mexico City to help Allende.

* Soviet Major-General Vasili Blokhin

He was accused of being a Soviet disinformation agent by KGB defector Vasili Mitrokhin, and two members of former East Germany's secret police Stasi.

In 1969, according to Soviet dissident Vasili Mitrokhin, O ' Riordan was approached by IRA leaders Cathal Goulding and Seamus Costello with a view to obtaining guns from the Soviet KGB to defend Irish republican areas of Belfast during the communal violence that marked the outbreak of the Troubles.

According to the Vasili Mitrokhin and Christopher Andrew, the KGB and the Cuban Intelligence Directorate launched a campaign known as Operation TOUCAN.

* Andrew, Christopher M. and Vasili Mitrokhin ( 1999 ) The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB.

According to the former KGB archivist Vasili Mitrokhin, after the Athens Colonel Coup in April 1967, Longo and other PCI leaders became alarmed at the possibility of a coup in Italy.

* Vasili Mitrokhin and Christopher Andrew, The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB, Basic Books ( 1999 ), hardcover, ISBN 0-465-00310-9 ; trade paperback ( September, 2000 ), ISBN 0-465-00312-5

* Vasili Mitrokhin and Christopher Andrew, The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World, Basic Books ( 2005 ) hardcover, 677 pages ISBN 0-465-00311-7

* Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West, Gardners Books ( 2000 ), ISBN 0-14-028487-7

The Mitrokhin Archive -- The KGB in Europe and the West, by Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, documents extensive manipulation by the KGB in creating and fostering conspiracy theories regarding the Kennedy assassination.

The KGB Center, with the help of KGB's Ottawa resident, set about procuring two new passports for Fisher in the names of Robert Callan and Vasili Dzogol, but this process would take time.

* Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB, Basic Books, 1999, hardcover edition, pages 287 – 293 and page 306, ISBN 0-465-00310-9

* Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World, Basic Books, 2005, hardcover, 677 pages, ISBN 0-465-00311-7

* Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West, Gardners Books ( 2000 ), ISBN 0-14-028487-7

According to Vasili Mitrokhin, Fonseca was a KGB agent.