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	Head of the Main Directorate of International Military Cooperation.

Born 31 Aug 1943 on Frunze Sovkhoz in Kirghiz SSR.

Education:

• Tashkent Higher Combined Arms Command School (1964).
• Frunze Military Academy (1974).
• Candidate of history, professor.

Career:

• 1964, served in Carpathian MD and the GSFG.
• 1974,  Deputy regimental commander, Moscow MD.
• 1976, transferred to the central apparatus of the Ministry of Defense.
• June 1987, appointed head of the Legal Department of the USSR MoD.
• Referred to as Lt-Gen (Krasnaya Zvezda 12 Sep 91 First Edition p 3). ( Izvestiya 24 Jan 92 Morning Edition pp 1, 2).
• June 1987, became head of the Ministry's Administrative Department (Krasnaya Zvezda 13 Nov 88 p 1.) .
• July 1992 - Secretary of the Defense Ministers' Council of the members of the CIS.
• 1 October 1996, appointed Head of the Main Directorate of International Military Cooperation.
• Noted as a Col-Gen, (Russian Television Network 5 Jan 98 ).

(Military News Bulletin No 10, Oct 96 p 8).]