Anatoliy Alekseevich Nogovitsyn (russian: Анатолий Алексеевич Ноговицын; 29 April 1952 – 5 November 2019) was a Russian military official. He served as the Deputy Chief of

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. Holding the rank of

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, he was known for being the primary spokesman of the Russian Armed Forces during

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and for warning

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about the possibility of a

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on 15 August 2008 after an agreement reached between the

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and

on 14 August 2008 about hosting part of a US missile defense shield in

. President

Dmitry Medvedev Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev ( rus, links=no, Дмитрий Анатольевич Медведев, p=ˈdmʲitrʲɪj ɐnɐˈtolʲjɪvʲɪtɕ mʲɪdˈvʲedʲɪf; born 14 September 1965) is a Russian politician who has been serving as the dep ...

later played down the

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threats against

Biography

In 1973 he graduated with honors from Armavir Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots (russian: Армавирское высшее военное авиационное училище лётчиков). In 2012, he was dismissed, officially for age reasons. Nogovitsyn died in Moscow on 5 November 2019.

References

External links

Biography of Nogovitsyn from Lentapedia

1952 births 2019 deaths Russian colonel generals Burials at the Federal Military Memorial Cemetery Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia alumni Zhukov Air and Space Defence Academy alumni {{Russia-mil-bio-stub