Major General Alexander Alexeyevich Lukyanenko () (born 13 September 1961 in

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) is a Transnistrian politician who served as the 3rd

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from 2012 to 2015 in the government of President

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. He was born in

, the capital of

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, as the son of a soldier serving with the

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. In 1978, he graduated from a

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and then at the

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in 1982. Throughout the next 30 years, he served in various units within the

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and the

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. On 26 January 2012, he was appointed Minister of Defense of the PMR. In August of that year, he was promoted to Major General. On 30 December 2015, he was dismissed from military service and was transferred to the reserve. He is married and has a son and a daughter.

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