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Putin appoints tanker as commander Western Military District
MOSCOW , November 10, 2018 , 13:08 - REGNUM President of the Russian Federation, Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Russia Vladimir Putin appointed Colonel-General Alexander Zhuravlev Commander of the Western Military District (ZVO). This was announced today, November 10, by the head of the press service of the ZVO Colonel Igor Muginov.Zhuravlev has been in the service in the USSR Armed Forces since 1982. In 1986, he graduated from the Chelyabinsk Higher Tank Command School named after the 50th anniversary of Great October Revolution, the Military Academy of the Armored Forces named after Marshal of the Soviet Union R. Ya. Malinovsky (1996), the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (2008). He served in the Central Group of Forces. After graduating from the Military Academy of Armored Forces in 1996, he served in the troops of the Far Eastern Military District, where he walked from the chief of staff of a tank regiment to the commander of a motorized rifle division. More at the link Posted by: badanov 2018-11-11 |
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