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Colonel-General Alexey Fyodorvich Maslov (Russian: Алексей Фëдорович Маслов; born September 23, 1953) is the current commander-in-chief of the Russian Ground Forces. He is a graduate of the Tank Troops Military Academy and in the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces. Colonel General is a senior military rank which is used in some of the world’s militaries. ...
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Born 23 September 1953 in Panskoye, Kursk region, Alexey Maslov was educated at Kharkov Higher Tank Command School. His first service tours were in the Carpathian Military District, where he served as tank platoon, company, and battalion commander. In 1984, he earned a degree at the Tank Academy and was appointed as regiment commander (1986) and, later, deputy division commander within the Central (Group of Forces?), Czechoslovakia. From 1990 to 1994, General Maslov served as deputy division commander, Volga-Urals Military District and, in 1994, assumed command of the Guards Mozyr tank division there. Kharkov (rus: Ха́рьков) or Kharkiv (ukr: Ха́рків) is the second largest city in Ukraine, a center of Kharkivska oblast. It is situated in the northeast of the country and has a population of two million. ...
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In 1998, General Maslov graduated from the General Staff Academy and took up the post as deputy commander for training, within the then Transbaikal Military District. Military districts are territorial entities used for the purposes of military planning and strategizing. ...
In 1999, he became Chief of Combat Training in the Siberian M.D. In March 2000, he was appointed as chief of staff and first deputy army commander of 36th Army within the Siberian Military District.
From 2001 to 2003, General Maslov served as commander of 57th Army Corps in the Siberian Military District. (The official biography does not identify the Army Corps he commanded, but 57 AK was the only Army Corps active in the district at that time.) on 22 March 2003, he was appointed as chief of staff, first deputy Commander North Caucasus Military District. He later became First Deputy Commander and Chief of Staff of the Ground Forces. Military districts are territorial entities used for the purposes of military planning and strategizing. ...
The Russian Ground Forces (Russian: Сухопутные Ñилы РоÑÑии) are the land forces of Russia, formed from parts of the collapsing Soviet Army in 1992. ...
He was promoted to the rank of Colonel General on 12 June 2004.
By a Presidential Decree of 5 November 2004 Alexey Maslov assumed the duties as Ground Forces Commander-in-Chief, succeeding General Nikolai Kormiltsev.
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External links
- Scott & Scott, Russian Military Directory 2004, p.67
- http://www.warfare.ru/?catid=239&linkid=2239
- http://mil.ru/eng/1862/12068/12088/12220/12240/index.shtml - Official biography
- Biography at peoples.ru
Preceded by:
Nikolai Kormiltsev | Commander-in-chief of the Russian Army
November 5, 2004 – | Succeeded by:
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