More Military Personnel Decrees

Kremlin.ru published four more decrees from President Medvedev on military personnel changes today. 

• General-Lieutenant Studenikin’s removal is surprising.  He’s had some good jobs, and he’s not necessarily too old to serve in another post. 
• Dismissed General-Colonel Tkachev commanded Baluyevskiy’s experimental Eastern Regional Command, the latest forerunner of today’s four OSKs.
• There’s a change as chief of staff in the federal chemical weapons storage directorate.
• That bastard child of the armed forces may be reorganizing – it sounds as if there may be a new Main Directorate of Railroad Troops, presumably it would be part of Bulgakov’s MTO empire.
• More staff officers from the MDs relieved and dismissed.  Former 58th Army commander Sobolev is dismissed.
• There’s even a change in one you don’t hear about every day (or even every decade) – the Special Service of Strategic Communications of the RF President.
• Finally, the changes in the new MDs are getting squared away – commanders and first deputy commanders in the new Southern, Eastern, and Central MDs roll over from their old positions.  Salyukov moves to the General Staff. 

Here are the details. 

Appointed:

• Colonel Igor Nikolayevich Dylevskiy, Chief, 5th Directorate, Main Operations Directorate, General Staff.
• Colonel Vladimir Leonidovich Suvorov, Professor, Military Art Faculty (Military Strategy), Military Academy of the General Staff, relieving him of duty as First Deputy Chief, 5th Directorate, Main Personnel Directorate, Defense Ministry.

Relieved of duties: 

• General-Lieutenant Aleksandr Igorevich Studenikin, Deputy CINC, Ground Troops.
• Colonel Andrey Gennadyevich Kharitonov, Chief of Staff for Armaments, First Deputy Chief of Armaments, Volga-Ural MD.

Relieved of duties and dismissed from military service:

• General-Major Vladimir Pavlovich Yedryshev, Chief of Missile Troops and Artillery, Volga-Ural MD.
• General-Major Nikolay Pavlovich Shebanov, Chief of Staff, First Deputy Chief, Federal Directorate for Safe Storage and Destruction of Chemical Weapons, Ministry of Industry and Trade.

Dismissed from military service:

• General-Major Yuriy Mikhaylovich Rovchak.

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Appointed:

• Colonel Sergey Viktorovich Bindel, Chief of Staff, Deputy Chief, Federal Directorate for Safe Storage and Destruction of Chemical Weapons, Ministry of Industry and Trade.

Relieved and dismissed:

• Rear-Admiral Aleksandr Nikolayevich Menyayelo, Deputy Chief, Main Directorate of Communications.

 Dismissed:

• General-Lieutenant Andrey Ivanovich Grigoryev.
• General-Major of Justice Viktor Anatolyevich Salatov.
• General-Colonel Nikolay Fedorovich Tkachev.

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Appointed:

• Colonel Dmitriy Yuryevich Boyarskiy, Deputy Director, Department of Planning and Coordination of Material-Technical Support, Defense Ministry, and Chief, Operational-Planning Directorate.
• General-Major Oleg Ivanovich Kosenkov, Chief, Main Directorate of Railroad Troops, relieved of duty as Chief of Staff, First Deputy Commander, Railroad Troops.

Relieved and dismissed:

• General-Major Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Bulanov, Special Service of Strategic Communications of the RF President.
• General-Major Vladimir Nikolayevich Glinin, Chief, Combat Training Directorate, North Caucasus MD.

Dismissed:

• General-Lieutenant Viktor Ivanovich Sobolev.

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Appointed:

• General-Lieutenant Aleksandr Viktorovich Galkin, Commander, Southern MD, relieved of duties as Commander, North Caucasus MD.
• General-Major Nikolay Nikolayevich Pereslegin, Chief of Staff, First Deputy Commander, Southern MD, relieved of duties as Chief of Staff, First Deputy Commander, North Caucasus MD.
• General-Colonel Oleg Leonidovich Salyukov, Deputy Chief of the General Staff, relieved of duties as Commander, Far East MD.
• General-Lieutenant Anatoliy Alekseyevich Sidorov, Chief of Staff, First Deputy Commander, Eastern MD, relieved of duties as Chief of Staff, First Deputy Commander, Far East MD.
• General-Lieutenant Sergey Vladimirovich Surovikin, Chief of Staff, First Deputy Commander, Central MD, relieved of duties as Chief of Staff, First Deputy Commander, Volga-Ural MD.
• General-Lieutenant Vladimir Valentinovich Chirkin, Commander, Central MD, relieved of duties as Commander, Siberian MD.