Lieutenant General Valery Anatolyevich Semerikov (Russian: Валерий Анатольевич Семериков; born on 28 June 1954), is a Russian politician and military commander who had served as the acting Secretary General of the
Collective Security Treaty Organization
The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO, ) is an Intergovernmental organization, intergovernmental military alliance in Eurasia consisting of six post-Soviet states: Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan. Th ...
in 2017 and again from 2018 to 2019.
Biography
Valery Semerikov was born in Borovitsa in
Kirov Oblast
Kirov Oblast ( rus, Кировская область, p=ˈkʲirəfskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast) located in Eastern Europe. Its administrative center is the city of Kirov. As of the 2010 census, the population ...
on 28 June 1954.
In 1971, he entered the Kiev Higher Tank Engineering School, then served in the border troops.
In 1975, he served in the military in Transbaikalia on the border of the Soviet Union and
China
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In 1982, he was called to serve in
Afghanistan
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. After returning from the war, he is appointed as deputy head of the Priargunsky border detachment.
In the late 1980s, he studied at the Military Academy of Armored Forces named after Marshal R. Ya. Malinovsky, after which he was sent to work at the Main Directorate of Border Troops with honors.
In 1994, he was appointed Deputy Commander of the North-Western Border District.
In 1995, he entered the Military Academy of the General Staff, from which he graduated with honors. Then he served in the central office of the Federal Border Service in the positions of chief of staff of armaments, in which he was the deputy director of the FPS.
In 2002, he was appointed First Deputy Director of the Border Service and was responsible for the arrangement of the state border in the Caucasus.
In 2003, he retired from the army to the reserve and worked in the CSTO Secretariat as Deputy Secretary General.
From January 1, 2017, to April 13, 2017, and November 1, 2018, to December 31, 2019, he served as Acting Secretary General of the CSTO.
Awards
He was awarded the
Order of Friendship
The Order of Friendship (, ') is a state decoration of the Russian Federation established by Boris Yeltsin by presidential decree 442 of 2 March 1994 to reward Russian and foreign nationals whose work, deeds and efforts have been aimed at ...
in 2007.
Family
He is married and has a son, who is an army officer.
References
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1954 births
Living people