Russian general
Pavel Anatolyevich Popov
(
Russian
:
Павел Анатольевич Попов
; born 1 January 1957), is a Russian army officer who is the Deputy
Minister of Defense
since 7 November 2013. He holds the rank of
General of the Army
as of 11 December 2015.
[1]
Popov had previously been the Head of the
Civil Protection Academy of the Ministry of Emergency Situations
from 2004 to 2008, and the Deputy
Minister of Emergency Situations
from 2008 to 2013.
[2]
Biography
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Pavel Popov was born on 1 January 1957 in
Krasnoyarsk
. He is an ethnic Russian.
In 1978, he graduated from the
Alma-Ata Higher Combined Arms Command School
, after which he served in the
Group of Soviet Forces in Germany
of the
Soviet Army
. In 1986, he was transferred to the
Far Eastern Military District
as commander of a motorized rifle battalion.
After graduating from the
Frunze Military Academy
in 1990, Popov served as chief of staff - a deputy commander of the civil defense regiment of the
Central Asian Military District
from 1990 to 1993, a commander of the 493rd separate mechanized civil defense regiment from 1993 to 1996, and had been the First Deputy Head of the East Siberian Regional Center of the
EMERCOM
of Russia.
In 1996, Popov was appointed head of the East Siberian regional center of the EMERCOM of Russia, and in 1999 - the head of the Siberian regional center of the EMERCOM of Russia. In these positions, he directly supervised the rescue operations at
the crash site of the A-310 airbus
near the city of
Mezhdurechensk
in
Kemerovo Oblast
on 23 March 1994, the liquidation of the consequences of the earthquake on the
Kuril Islands
in 1994, and the
Il-76
transport plane crash in the suburb of
Abakan
in 1996. Under his leadership, the delivery of humanitarian cargo and construction materials to the flood-affected city of
Lensk
in 2001, the extinguishing of large forest fires in
Chita Oblast
in 2003, and the elimination of the consequences of the earthquake in the
Altai Republic
in 2003, as well as other emergencies were carried out.
On 12 June 2004, by Decree of the President of Russia No. 751, Popov was awarded the military rank of
colonel general
.
In 2004, he was appointed head of the
Civil Protection Academy of the Ministry of Emergency Situations
and held this position until 2008.
From 2008 to 2013, Popov served as Deputy Minister of Emergency Situations.
According to the income statement, in 2012 Popov earned more than 5.2 million rubles.
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In 2013, he was transferred to work at the
Ministry of Defense
and was appointed deputy minister. On 31 July 2013, the Minister of Defense,
Sergey Shoygu
, at the visiting meeting of the Collegium of the Ministry of Defense, announced that Popov would oversee the creation of the
National Defense Management Center
.
[4]
By the decree of the
President of Russia
, on 7 November 2013, Popov was appointed Deputy Minister of Defense
[5]
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Also, in connection with the appointment, he became a member of the collegium of the Russian Ministry of Defense.
[7]
He is one of the developers of the concept for a multi-level system of permanently operating Russian Defense Control Centers.
[8]
By the decree of the President of Russia on 11 December 2015, Popov was promoted to "General of the Army".
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Sanctions
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On 15 October 2020, the
European Union
sanctioned Popov in connection with
the poisoning
of
Alexei Navalny
. The sanctions include a ban on entry into the EU and on financial transactions, as well as an
asset freeze
.
[9]
Sanctioned by the
UK
government in 2022 in relation to
Russo-Ukrainian War
.
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References
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