Valery Vladimirovich Kulikov (; born 1 September 1956) is a Ukrainian-born Russian politician, and former military commander. He served as the member of the

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of from the executive branch of

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from 19 September 2017 to September 2020. Kulikov has the rank of vice admiral, and was a deputy commander of the

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Biography

Valery Kulikov was born on 1 September 1956 in

Zaporizhzhia Zaporizhzhia, formerly known as Aleksandrovsk or Oleksandrivsk until 1921, is a city in southeast Ukraine, situated on the banks of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. It is the Capital city, administrative centre of Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Zaporizhzhia ...

, then in the

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. In 1974, he began active military service in the border troops. In 1980 he graduated from the Black Sea Higher Naval School named after P.S. Nakhimov and received a referral to the

. In 1994, he graduated from the

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. He held the positions of battery commander on the patrol ship ''Pylky'', commander of a missile and artillery warhead on patrol ships ''Pylky'', ''Razitelny'', and ''Ladny'', and was a senior assistant commander of the patrol ship ''Bezzavetny'' and missile cruiser ''Slava'', and commander of the missile cruisers ''Admiral Golovko'' and ''Moskva'', the commander of a brigade of landing ships, and the head of the combat training directorate of the Black Sea Fleet, and headed the combat training directorates of the

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and the Navy. Since February 2010, Kulikov was the acting commander of the

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. On 29 September 2010, Rear Admiral Sergei Alyokminsky was appointed the new commander. In 2013, with the rank of Rear Admiral, by decree of Russian President

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, Kulikov was appointed Deputy Commander of the Black Sea Fleet. By the decree of the President of the Russian Federation of 5 May 2014 No. 302, by Putin, Kulikov was awarded the military rank of Vice Admiral. On 19 September 2017, by the decree of the Governor of Sevastopol,

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, Kulikov was vested with the powers of a member of the Federation Council - a representative of the executive body of state power of

. On 26 September 2017, by presidential decree, Kulikov was relieved of his post as deputy commander of the Black Sea Fleet and dismissed from military service with the rank of vice admiral. On 13 September 2020, as a candidate from

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, he won with a score of 43.35% in the by-elections to the

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in district No. 2, which remained vacant for several months after Yekaterina Altabayeva was approved as the representative of the Legislative Assembly in the Federation Council. He left the Federation Council on 2 October 2020.

References

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