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Sherali Mirzo
Colonel General Sherali Mirzo () is a Tajik Colonel General who serves as the Minister of Defence since 20 November 2013, succeeding Sherali Khayrulloyev. Biography Early life and military career Mirzo was born in 1967 in the Moskovskiy District (present-day Hamadoni) in the Khatlon Region in the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic. He graduated from the Perm Higher Military Command Academy and joined the armed forces after independence in 1994. During the Tajik civil war, he commanded the military forces of the Vose' District. In 1994-1995 he was a senior officer of the military training department of the Ministry of Defense and from 1997-2002, he was the commander of the 7th Separate Motor Rifle Battalion. He was appointed to this position on 13 August of that year to replace Colonel Mahmud Khudoiberdiyev, holding the rank of a Lieutenant colonel at the time. He spent four years studying at the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia. Appointm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Defence (Tajikistan)
The Ministry of Defence of Tajikistan (; ) is the Ministry of defence, defence ministry of Tajikistan, overseeing the Tajik Ground Forces, Tajik Air Force, Air Force, Tajik Mobile Forces, Mobile Forces. It also oversees purchases of equipment for the Armed Forces of Tajikistan, Tajik military. The other branches of the military, such as the Tajik Border Troops, Border and Tajik Internal Troops, Internal Troops, are overseen by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Tajikistan), Interior Ministry of Tajikistan. The Defence Ministry was founded in 1993 with Russian assistance. History Origins The ministry succeeded the Defense Committee of the Republic of Tajikistan, led by former Commissar, military commissar of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic, Tajik SSR General Muminzhan Mamadjanov. It was founded just weeks after the Soviet Union was officially dissolved and months after Tajikistan declared its independence. The committee went through multiple phases, with one of its chairmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perm Higher Military Command Academy
Perm or PERM may refer to: Places *Perm, Russia, a city in Russia **Permsky District, the district **Perm Krai, a federal subject of Russia since 2005 **Perm Oblast, a former federal subject of Russia 1938–2005 **Perm Governorate, an administrative unit until 1923 **Great Perm, a medieval state *Perm, Ontario, a small community in Canada Other uses * Perm (hairstyle), or permanent hairstyle, that may last for several months * Perm (unit), a unit of permeance (or water vapor transmission) of materials and membranes * PERM (computer), an early electronic computer * Permanent Labor Certification (Program Electronic Review Management), an American electronic labor certification system * P.E.R.M. or Petrol Electric railmotor * "Perm", a 2016 song by Bruno Mars from '' 24K Magic'' * Permian, a geologic period See also *Permian (other) *Permsky (other) *Permutation (mathematics) *UEC-Perm Engines JSC UEC-Perm Engines () is a company based in Perm, Russia, Perm, Rus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Islamic Republic Of Iran Armed Forces
The Iranian Armed Forces, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran Armed Forces, are the combined military forces of Iran, comprising the Islamic Republic of Iran Army (''Artesh''), the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (''Sepah'') and the Police Command (''Faraja''). Iranian Armed Forces are the largest in the Middle East in terms of active troops. Iran's military forces are made up of approximately 610,000 active-duty personnel plus 350,000 reserve and trained personnel that can be mobilized when needed, bringing the country's military manpower to about 960,000 total personnel. These numbers do not include Law Enforcement Command or Basij. Most of Iran's imported weapons consist of American systems purchased before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, with limited purchases from Russia in the 1990s following the Iran–Iraq War. However, the country has since then launched a robust domestic rearmament program, and its inventory has become increasingly indigenous. According to Ir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammad Bagheri (general)
Major General Mohammad Bagheri (, 1960 – 13 June 2025; born Mohammad-Hossein Afshordi ) was an Iranian military officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), who served as the Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces from 2016 to 2025. He was killed along with other senior officers during a series of airstrikes launched by Israel on 13 June 2025. He was the highest ranking military officer in Iran at the time of his death. Career Bagheri, a military intelligence expert with experience dating back to the Iran–Iraq War, held a Ph.D. in political geography and reportedly taught at Iran's Supreme National Defense University. In 1980, he joined the IRGC. Mohammad Bagheri was a member of a group identified by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) as the IRGC Command Network, which includes other commanders such as Mohammad Ali Jafari, Ali Fadavi, and Gholam Ali Rashid. According to AEI's Critical Threats Project, the group "dominates the upper echelons of Ira ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tehran
Tehran (; , ''Tehrân'') is the capital and largest city of Iran. It is the capital of Tehran province, and the administrative center for Tehran County and its Central District (Tehran County), Central District. With a population of around 9.8 million in the city as of 2025, and 16.8 million in the metropolitan area, Tehran is the List of largest cities of Iran, most populous city in Iran and Western Asia, the Largest metropolitan areas of the Middle East, second-largest metropolitan area in the Middle East after Cairo, and the 24th most populous metropolitan area in the world. Greater Tehran includes several municipalities, including, Karaj, Eslamshahr, Shahriar, Tehran province, Shahriar, Qods, Iran, Qods, Malard, Golestan, Tehran, Golestan, Pakdasht, Qarchak, Nasimshahr, Parand, Pardis, Andisheh and Fardis. In the classical antiquity, part of the territory of present-day Tehran was occupied by Rhages (now Ray, Iran, Ray), a prominent Medes, Median city almost entirely des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sughd Region
Sughd Province, also referred to as the Sogdia Region, and Leninabad before 2001, is one of the four administrative divisions and one of the three provinces that make up Tajikistan. Centered in the historical Sogdiana, it is located in the northwest of the country, with an area of some 25,400 square kilometers and a population of 2,707,300 (2020 estimate), up from 2,233,550 according to the 2010 census and 1,871,979 in 2000. The capital is Khujand. The Province's ethnic composition in 2010 was 84% Tajik, 14.8% Uzbek, 0.6% Kyrgyz, 0.4% Russian and 0.1% Tatar. The province shares a border with Uzbekistan ( Surxondaryo, Qashqadaryo, Jizzakh, Sirdaryo, Namangan, Samarkand, Tashkent and Fergana regions), Kyrgyzstan ( Osh and Batken regions) and Districts of Republican Subordination. The Syr Darya river flows through it. It contains the Akash Massif and Mogoltau Massif Important Bird Areas. Sughd is separated from the rest of Tajikistan by the Gissar Range (passes may be closed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baljuvon District
Baljuvon District (; ) is a district in Khatlon Region, Tajikistan Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. Dushanbe is the capital city, capital and most populous city. Tajikistan borders Afghanistan to the Afghanistan–Tajikistan border, south, Uzbekistan to .... Its capital is the village Baljuvon. The population of Baljuvon District is 30,400 (January 2020 estimate). Administrative divisions The district has an area of about and is divided administratively into five jamoats. They are as follows:Jamoat-level basic indicators United Nations Development Programme in Tajikistan, accessed 8 October 2020 References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tajik Border Troops
The Border Troops (), also called the Border Service, is the border guard of Tajikistan. Functioning under the State Committee for National Security as part of the Armed Forces, the border guards are trained by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, along with the Afghan Border Police. A higher education college is located in the capital, Dushanbe, the Border Troops Academy, and a Border Troops Training Centre is located south of it, in the Rudaki District. The main control station of the border troops is the Border Management Center of the Main Border Guard Directorate of the SCNS. Outside the border troops, a detachment of the Border Service of the FSB deployed in Tajikistan mostly consists of Tajik conscripts preferring to serve under Russian command. History At the very beginning of the Tajikistani Civil War, one of the main factors in the escalation was the state border. As a result, a Special Border Brigade, and later the Border Protection Departmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Committee For State Security Of The Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic
A committee or commission is a body of one or more persons subordinate to a deliberative assembly or other form of organization. A committee may not itself be considered to be a form of assembly or a decision-making body. Usually, an assembly or organization sends matters to a committee as a way to explore them more fully than would be possible if the whole assembly or organization were considering them. Committees may have different functions and their types of work differ depending on the type of organization and its needs. A member of a legislature may be delegated a committee assignment, which gives them the right to serve on a certain committee. Purpose A deliberative assembly or other organization may form a committee (or "commission") consisting of one or more persons to assist with the work of the assembly. For larger organizations, much work is done in committees. They can be a way to formally draw together people of relevant expertise from different parts of an organi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Committee For National Security (Tajikistan)
The State Committee for National Security (SCNS; ; ) is the principal national security and intelligence agency of Tajikistan. Its main responsibilities include Internal security, internal and Border control, border security, Counterintelligence, counter-intelligence, counter-terrorism, War on Drugs, counter-narcotics, fighting organized crime, and surveillance. The chairman of the committee and all of his deputies are appointed by and answerable to the president of Tajikistan. Colonel General Saimumin Yatimov has served as the SCNS chairman since September 2, 2010. The SCNS is governed by the Law About National Security Bodies of the Republic of Tajikistan. Its activity is formally overseen by the Office of the Prosecutor General, although in practice the external oversight of the SCNS is virtually non-existent. History The SCNS is the Tajik successor organization to the KGB, Committee for State Security (KGB) of the Soviet Union and its Committee for State Security of the Taji ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Military Academy Of The General Staff Of The Armed Forces Of Russia
The Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation () is the senior staff college of the Russian Armed Forces. The academy is located in Moscow, on 14 Kholzunova Lane. It was founded in 1936 as a Soviet institution, based on higher command courses that had been established at the M. V. Frunze Military Academy, itself founded in 1918. An General Staff Academy (Imperial Russia), earlier General Staff Academy had existed during the Imperial Russia, Imperial period, since 1832. Students were, and probably still are, admitted to the Academy in the Military rank, ranks of lieutenant colonel, colonel, and General-Major (one star). Most were colonels or newly promoted generals. Officers enter in their late 30s, as a general rule. Officers selected for this academy would have first attended the appropriate service or branch academy (see Military academies in Russia). Graduates who were not already generals or admirals usually were promoted to this ran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
