I am glad to welcome all visitors to this website narrating the history of the outstanding Soviet intelligence officer Kim Philby and the legendary Cambridge Five. Their story is one of the most remarkable and heroic chapters in the history of our foreign intelligence. Kim Philby and his comrades helped alter the course of the 20 th century, to steer it in the direction of greater social justice, peace and humanism…

Kim Philby and I were happily married for eighteen years, and we were always very frank with each other. However, as a professional intelligence officer, my husband knew how to keep secrets, so the full picture of what Kim and the rest of the Cambridge Five did for the security of our Motherland only gradually became clear to me after he passed away in 1988…

The educational project "Kim Philby and the Cambridge Five" was initiated by Kim Philby’s widow Rufina Pukhova-Philby (1932−2021), Director General of the Institute for Foreign Policy Research and Initiatives Veronika Krasheninnikova, and co-founder of the Kim Philby Memorial Foundation Mikhail Bogdanov. The project was timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service and received financial support from the Presidential Grants Fund…

PhD in History, Director General of the Institute for Foreign Policy Research and Initiatives

The educational project "Kim Philby and the Cambridge Five" is funded by the Presidential Grants Fund, with media and information support of the SVR’s Press Office and the Russian Historical Society...