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FBIS/Central Eurasia Program
Directory of RF Defense Related Agencies and Personnel
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  •  Colonel-General YEFREMOV, Ivan

    Commander,Moscow Military District
    Born in the Kirov region in 1946.

    Education:

    • 1967, Ulyanovsk Guard Tank School
    • 1976 Military Academy of Armoured Troops
    • 1988 General Staff Academy 

    Career:

    • Served in the Southern Troop Group as chief-of-staff, deputy regiment commander, regiment commander and deputy division commander. 
    • 1982 to 1986 Division commander in the Carpathian MD. 
    • 1988 sent to the Trans-Baikal military district as first deputy commander of a combined-arms army.  Subsequently promoted to chief of staff - first deputy army commander, and later became army commander, in the Moscow Military District. 
    • November 1996 Moscow MD Chief-of-Staff
    • 6 August 1999 head of the Defence Ministry University. 
    • April-June 2001 Chief of the Defence Ministry Main Cadres Directorate. 
    • 12 July 2001 Commander, Moscow MD
    (Agentstvo Voyennykh Novostey 13 July 2001; Voyeninform Military News Agency 1 Jul 01).