| Lieutenant General Andrei Ravkov | |
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| Minister of Defence of Belarus | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 27 November 2014 | |
| Prime Minister | Andrei Kobyakov Syarhey Rumas |
| Preceded by | Yury Zhadobin |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 25 June 1967 Revyaki, Vitebsk Region, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic |
| Alma mater | Minsk Suvorov Military School, Moscow Higher Military Command School, Military Academy of Belarus, Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia |
Lieutenant General Andrei Alekseyevich Ravkov (Belarusian language: Андрэй Аляксеевіч Раўкоў, born on 25 June 1967 in Revyaki, Vitebsk Region) has been the Defence Minister of Belarus since 27 November 2014.[1]
Early life and career[]
Ravkov with Armenian Defense Minister Vigen Sargsyan.
Ravkov with Sergei Shoigu in 2015.
In 1984, he graduated from Minsk Suvorov Military School. In 1988, he graduated with honors from the Moscow Higher Military Command School. He worked his way from the commander of the platoon to commander of the battalion. In 1999, he graduated with a gold medal from the Command and Staff department of Belarus's Military Academy.
In 2005, he graduated with honours from the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and was appointed commander of the 103rd separate Guards mobile brigade. From 2006 to 2012 he served as chief of the operations department - deputy chief of staff of the Western Operational Command and chief of staff - first deputy commander of the North-Western Operational Command.
On 16 November 2012, he became commander of the North-Western Operational Command.[2]
In 2012, he was elected to the Minsk regional council of deputies from Borisov.
References[]
- ↑ Andrei Ravkov appointed Belarus' Defense Minister Belarusian Telegraph Agency
- ↑ "Andrei Ravkov — Military information portal of the Ministry of Defence of Republic of Belarus". http://www.mil.by/en/forces/squad/persons/203/. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
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