
SITE MAP	Unclassified	Revised: 21 March 2003
FBIS/Central Eurasia Program Directory of RF Defense Related Agencies and Personnel

Main Directorate for Special Construction (GUSS)

(ГЛАВНОE УПРАВЛЕНИЕ СПЕЦИАЛЬНОГО СТРОИТЕЛЬСТВА МИНИСТЕРСТВА ОБОРОНЫ РФ)

[GUSS is subordinate to the General Staff's Main Directorate for Construction and Troop Billeting.]

Chief --- BELOV, Andrei K., Lieutenant-General (Military News Bulletin No 011, 1 Nov 02). [BELOV: "Born on August 27, 1953 in the town of Polotsk, Vitebsk Region, Belarussian Soviet Socialist Republic, he graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Construction Engineers, there he also had military training, in 1975. In August 1975 he went to serve for the Severvoenmorstroi naval construction organisation of the Northern Fleet, where he rose from work superintendent to head of that organisation and was subsequently promoted to deputy fleet commander for construction and billeting. In 1999 - 2001 he was head of the Central research Institute of the Defence Ministry. In April 2001 he was promoted to deputy head of construction and billeting of the Defence Ministry. He was appointed Head of the Main Directorate of Special Construction of the Defence Ministry by presidential decree of August 8, 2002" (Military News Bulletin No 011, 1 Nov 02).]

[Previous Chief was GREBENYUK, Anatoliy Vladimirovich, Lt-Gen (Noted as a Lt-Gen, Krasnaya Zvezda, 11 January 2001). Grebenyuk was born in 1955 in the Rovenskaya Oblast. After graduating from the Ukrainian Institute of Water Management Engineering, he worked in an atomic power station. In 1981, he was drafted into the Armed Forces and in 5 years became the Chief of the UNR [Work Supervisor's Section], and at the age of 33 - one of the youngest chiefs of the Directorate of Engineering Works [UIR]. In 1991, he was named the Deputy Troop Commander of the Privolzhsko-Uralskiy Military District for Construction and Troop Billeting (Krasnaya Zvezda 17 Mar 01). Since 1994 he has been the Chief of the GUSS. He is a Distinguished Builder of the Russian Federation and Azerbaijan. He is an Economic Sciences Candidate. He is married with two sons - both of whom are Military University cadets. (Krasnaya Zvezda 28 Mar 00 1, 3 ).]

57th Military Construction Directorate

60th Specialized Construction Directorate

161st Engineering Works Directorate

437th Construction Directorate

450th Military Construction Directorate

906th Construction Directorate

Construction Directorate of the city of Moscow

Engineering Works Directorate (in Chechnya)

Military Maintenance Directorate

Deputy Chief --- BEKOVITSKIY, Mikhail, Maj-Gen (Krasnaya Zvezda, 21 Mar 03).
Deputy Chief (?) --- MININ, Aleksandr, Maj-Gen was referred to as the "Deputy chief of the Federal Main Directorate for Construction" (Бюллетень "Проблемы химической безопасности" (UCS-INFO) 15.08.2001).

[Grebenyuk: During 2000 GUSS built garrisons for the 42nd MRD in Chechnya, worked on RVSN facilities at Tatishchevo, worked on test ranges relocation at Emba and Kapustin Yar "and were able to complete work on the construction and works for assuring nuclear security at tens of facilties." (Krasnaya Zvezda, 11 January 2001).]

[Lieutenant-General (retired) Viktor Mikhaylovich Zakimatov headed GUSS from 1987 to 1992 (Krasnaya Zvezda 22 Feb 01).]
["The basic production structure of the VSK [Miltary Construction Complex] is the RF Ministry of Defense's Main Directorate of Special Construction. Overcoming financial and organizational difficulties in the course of reforms, the collective of this main command was able to preserve its best traditions and its production and engineering-technical potential. A number of leading construction organizations and industrial enterprises from the disbanded Main Military Construction Directorate and the auctioned off Ministry of Defense Main Directorate of the Construction Industry joined it. Today the main command carries out construction and reconstruction of special facilities, building of facilities for troops, and providing military servicemen with housing and social-cultural facilities" (Armeyskiy Sbornik 01 Aug 00 pp 11-15).]

57th Military Construction Directorate [GUSS]

(Krasnaya Zvezda 24 Apr 01 P 1).

60th Specialized Construction Directorate [GUSS]

60-ое специализированное строительное управление

Head --- Marenkov, Georgiy, Col (Krasnaya Zvezda 2 Aug 01).

161st Engineering Works Directorate [GUSS]

(Agentstvo Voyennykh Novostey 9 Jul 01).

437th Construction Directorate [GUSS]

(Krasnaya Zvezda 24 Apr 01; Agentstvo Voyennykh Novostey, 25 Mar 02).

450th Military Construction Directorate [GUSS]

(Krasnaya Zvezda 06 Jun 01). (Krasnaya Zvezda 24 Apr 01 P 1).

906th Construction Directorate [GUSS]

[Built housing in Chechnya. 3,500 men (Krasnaya Zvezda, 26 Sep 01).]

Commander --- DVULUCHANSKIY, Sergey, Col (Krasnaya Zvezda, 26 Sep 01).

Construction Directorate of the city of Moscow [GUSS]

Commander --- DERGUNOV, Oleg, Col (Krasnaya Zvezda 11 Jan 01).

Engineering Works Directorate (in Chechnya)
[Based on the Stavropol Construction Directorate.]

Head --- Shkalenko, VladimirVladimirovich, Col (Krasnaya Zvezda 28 Mar 00 1, 3).

Military Maintenance Directorate

Head --- ?

[Previous head, "Lt-Gen Igor Shifrin, died last night in Groznyy's Oktyabrskiy district as a result of a terrorist act" (ITAR-TASS, 16 Nov 02).]