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Ministry Of Defence (Belarus)
The Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Belarus (; ) is the government organisation that is charged with the duties of raising and maintaining the Armed Forces of Belarus. The formation of the ministry began in March 1992, after the events of 1991 in which the Soviet Union had effectively dissolved. The ministry was formed on the basis of the former Headquarters of the Soviet Army's Belorussian Military District. Seven officers have served as Minister of Defence of Belarus: Petr Chaus, Pavel Kozlovskii, Anatoly Kostenko, Leonid Maltsev (1995–96), Colonel General Alexander Chumakov, a Russian officer, (1996–2001), Yuriy Zhadobin (2009–2014), Andrei Ravkov (2014–2020), and Viktor Khrenin (2020–present). The ministry is part of the Security Council of Belarus, interdepartmental meeting with a mandate to ensure the security of the state. The president, currently Alexander Lukashenko, appoints the minister of defence, who heads the ministry, as well as the h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Defense (Soviet Union)
The Ministry of Defense (Minoboron; ) was a government ministry in the Soviet Union, which supervised the Soviet Armed Forces. The first Minister of Defense was Nikolai Bulganin, starting 1953. History The Ministry of Defence was renamed a number of times. From 1917 to 1934 it was the People's Commissariat for Military and Naval Affairs, from 1934 to 1946 it was the People's Commissariat of Defense of the Soviet Union, and in 1946 the People's Commissariat for the Armed Forces. On February 25, 1946 the People's Commissariat of Defense of the Soviet Union and the People's Commissariat of the Navy of the Soviet Union were amalgamated into a Ministry of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union (). The ministry became responsible for: "developing long-term plans for the development of the army and navy and improving organization and logistics fall types and branches of troops of the Armed Forces, which were controlled through the corresponding main commands in accordance with the sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonid Maltsev
Colonel General Leonid Semyonovich Maltsev (, ; born August 29, 1949) is a retired Belarusian Ground Forces officer. He served as the Minister of Defence of Belarus twice (1995–1996 and 2001–2009) and the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Belarus (1994–1995). Early life and education He served in the Soviet Army from 1967 after graduation from Minsk Suvorov Military School. In 1971, Maltsev graduated from Kiev Higher Military Command School (cum laude). Military career He served in the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany as an infantry platoon commander. In 1972 he became a mechanized infantry company commander. In 1974 he was the commander of a motorized rifle battalion. In 1979 he graduated from Frunze Military Academy. In 1979 Maltsev served in the Far East Military District as a deputy commander of the infantry regiment and in 1980 as the commander of a motorized rifle regiment of the school, in 1982 as a Chief of Staff Motorized Rifle Division, and in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandr Petrovich Chumakov
Aleksandr Petrovich Chumakov (; ; born on 26 November 1941) is a retired Belarusian Army colonel general and former Minister of Defence of Belarus. Chumakov commanded the 120th Guards Motor Rifle Division from 1980. In June 1986, he became commander of the 20th Guards Army. In August 1988, he became chief of staff of the Belorussian Military District. After serving as a Soviet adviser in North Korea, Chumakov was a member of the Russian military contingent in Transnistria. Between December 1995 and October 1996, he was chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Belarus. He was the Minister of Defence of Belarus from 1 November 1996 to 28 March 2001. Chumakov's term took place between Leonid Maltsev's two non-consecutive terms as Minister of Defence. Early life Chumakov was born on 26 November 1941 during World War II to Pyotr Grigoryevich Chumakov and Marya Grigoryevna Chumakova in the village of in Rostov Oblast. His father, a Gosbank inspector, served with the Red ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pavel Pavlovich Kozlovsky
Pavel Pavlovich Kozlovsky (, ), also translated as Paul Kozlowski, is a retired Soviet and Belarusian military leader and independent politician. A colonel-general in the Army of Belarus following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991, he was appointed the second Minister of Defence after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, serving from 1992 to 1994. In this role he was succeeded by Anatoly Kostenko. He unsuccessfully sought to challenge the incumbent President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko in a campaign for the presidency in 2001, but failed to gather the sufficient number of signatures to stand in the election. Early career He was born on 9 March 1942 in the village of Volkovnya into a peasant family. His father was a Red Army soldier who was killed in 1945 during the Second World War. After graduating high school in 1961, Kozlovsky entered the Tashkent Higher All-Arms Command School, which he graduated in 1965. He served in the following positions: company ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Chaus
Pyotr Ryhoravič Chavus (born 7 January 1939) is a Soviet-Belarusian retired lieutenant general and politician the first Defence Minister of Belarus, serving from December 1991 to April 1992. He was succeeded by Pavel Pavlovich Kozlovsky. He graduated from Minsk Suvorov Military School and later Tashkent Higher Military Command School. He began his service as commander of a tank platoon in the North Caucasus Military District. He then served as the deputy commander of a tank battalion in the Belorussian Military District. In 1968, he participated in Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. He graduated from the Military Political Academy named after Lenin. In 1978, he attended the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces. He served in the Central Asian Military District in 1980. In 1987, he became an adviser to the Chief of the General Staff of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. From 1988 to 1991 he was the chief of staff of the Baltic Military District Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Border Guard Service Institute Of Belarus
The Border Guard Service Institute of Belarus () is the educational institution of the Border Guard Service of Belarus. History The school was established on August 19, 1993, when, in accordance with the Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus No. 564 the Minsk Higher Military-Political-Arms School faculty was established for border troops. On May 17, 1995, Presidential Decree 192 created the Military Academy of Belarus, which included the faculty of border troops. The first graduation of officers was in 1997. During its existence, the faculty held 13 graduations for about 1,000 border guard officers; 25 students received gold medals and 69 graduated with honors. The institute was established in accordance by decree of the President Alexander Lukashenko on May 5, 2010. Just four days later, on Victory Day, it made its first national appearance among the parade formations participating in the 2010 Minsk Victory Day Parade on Victors Avenue. From July 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minsk Suvorov Military School
The Minsk Suvorov Military School (MnSVU) is one of the Suvorov Military Schools in Belarus and in other former Soviet Republics for military cadets. The MnSVU is a state specialised educational institution that focuses on military subjects and trains students for universities and further military or civil service. According to President Lukashenko, the school has made a "significant contribution to the patriotic education of the younger generation and the training of future Belarusian officer." History In accordance with a resolution of the Council of Ministers of the USSR on 21 May 1952, the Suvorov Military School was opened in Minsk in 1953. In 1921, the Suvorov Military School building housed infantry courses for the United Belarusian Military School. The first set of cadets were assembled in September 1953. Most of the original pupils were orphaned children whose parents died in the Second World War. The day of the school is considered 6 November, which represents the d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Military Academy Of Belarus
Military Academy of the Republic of Belarus (, ) is higher military educational institution in the national education system of the Republic of Belarus and the leading institution in the education system of training, retraining and advanced training of military personnel. It is located on Independence Avenue (Prospekt Nezavisimosti) in the Belarusuan capital of Minsk. It has 10 departments that train officers of 38 specialties for all arms of service. Brief history and description Military Academy of the Republic of Belarus was established in accordance with the Presidential Decree No.192 on 17 May 1995 on the basis of two schools: the Minsk Higher Military Engineering School and the Minsk Higher Military Command School. The latter is the successor of the Minsk Higher Military-Political School, which was established on 10 May 1980, carrying out the training of more than 1,900 officers during its existence. From 1980 to 1991, the school gave military training to 900 people from 21 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Main Directorate Of Ideology Of The Ministry Of Defence Of Belarus
The Main Directorate of Ideology of the Ministry of Defence of Belarus (, ) is the military cultural and psychological service of the Republic of Belarus. It is a subdivision of the Ministry of Defence of Belarus and is operated by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Belarus. The current head of the directorate is Colonel Leonid Kasinski. Since 2005, the official professional holiday of the directorate is celebrated on 15 December. Activities Belarus was the first country among the Post-Soviet states where positions of military psychologists were introduced into the structural bodies of ideological work. Established on 20 February 2004, the Main Directorate of Ideology of the Ministry of Defence of Belarus conducts the following duties: *Participates in the organization of all cultural events in the armed forces, including the Minsk Independence Day Parade and the Victory Day Parades in the capital. *Hosts musical festivals and military tattoos in the country. *Provi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Lukashenko
Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko (also transliterated as Alyaksandr Ryhoravich Lukashenka; born 30 August 1954) is a Belarusian politician who has been the first and only president of Belarus since the office's establishment in 1994, making him the List of current state leaders by date of assumption of office, current longest-serving European leader. Before embarking on his political career, Lukashenko worked as the director of a state farm (''sovkhoz'') and served in both the Soviet Border Troops and the Soviet Army. In 1990, Lukashenko was elected to the Supreme Soviet of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, he assumed the position of head of the interim anti-corruption committee of the Supreme Council of Belarus. In 1994, he won the presidency in the country's 1994 Belarusian presidential election, inaugural presidential election after the adoption of a new Constitution of Belarus, constitution. Lukashenko opposed Shock ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
President Of Belarus
The president of the Republic of Belarus is the head of state of Belarus. The office was created in 1994 with the passing of the Constitution of Belarus by the Supreme Council of Belarus, Supreme Council. This replaced the office of Supreme_Council_of_Belarus#Chairmen_of_the_Supreme_Council, Chairman of the Supreme Council as the head of state. The tasks of the president include executing foreign policy, foreign and domestic policy, defending the rights and general welfare of citizens and residents, and upholding the Constitution. The president is mandated by the Constitution to serve as a leader in the social affairs of the country and to act as its main representative abroad. The duties, responsibilities and other transitional clauses dealing with the presidency are listed in Chapter Three, Articles 79 through 89, of the Constitution. The term for the president is five years, but due to a 1996 Belarusian referendum, 1996 referendum, 2001 Belarusian presidential election, the ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrei Ravkov
Lieutenant General Andrei Alyakseyevich Ravkov (, born on 25 June 1967 in Revyaki, Vitebsk Region) is a Belarusian General and military leader who last served as the State Secretary of the Security Council of Belarus in 2020. Early life and career In 1984, he graduated from Minsk Suvorov Military School. In 1988, he graduated with honors from the Moscow Higher Military Command School. He worked his way from the commander of the platoon to commander of the battalion. In 1999, he graduated with a gold medal from the Command and Staff Department of the Military Academy of Belarus. In 2005, he graduated with honours from the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and was appointed commander of the 103rd Separate Guards Mobile Brigade. From 2006 to 2012 he served as Chief of the Operations Department and concurrently as Deputy Chief of Staff of the Western Operational Command. On 16 November 2012, he became Commander of the North West ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
