Vitaly Gamov

Major General Vitaly Ivanovich Gamov (; 1962 - 28 May 2002), was a Deputy Commander of the Pacific Regional Directorate of the Border Guard Service of Russia. He was killed in his house after refusing to take bribes and allow poachers to outsource their recourse to Japan.

Gamov was born to the family of a kolkhoz truck driver in Gorny Gigant near Almaty, Kazakhstan, then part of the Soviet Union. He graduated from the school of border guards and served mostly in the Russian Far East. He took part in the First Chechen War, was a commander of the South Kurily Border Guards, then Yuzhnosakhalinsk Group of Border Guards. He became a Major General at the age of 39.