Lieutenant General Bakhodir Nizamovich Kurbanov () is an Uzbek military leader who has served as the

Minister of Defence of Uzbekistan The Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Uzbekistan ( uz, O'zbekiston Respublikasi Mudofaa vazirligi) exercises administrative and operational leadership of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Uzbekistan. The Uzbek Minister of Defense is the no ...

since 2017.

Life and career

He was born in late 1969 in the

Jizzakh Region Jizzakh Region ( uz, Jizzax viloyati, Жиззах вилояти, جٮززﻩخ ۋٮلايەتى, russian: Джизакская область, Dzhizakskaya Oblast') is one of the regions of Uzbekistan. It is located in the center/east of the co ...

. From 1987-1989, he served in the

Soviet Army uk, Радянська армія , image = File:Communist star with golden border and red rims.svg , alt = , caption = Emblem of the Soviet Army , start_date ...

. After the

fall of the Soviet Union The dissolution of the Soviet Union, also negatively connoted as rus, Разва́л Сове́тского Сою́за, r=Razvál Sovétskogo Soyúza, ''Ruining of the Soviet Union''. was the process of internal disintegration within the Sov ...

in 1991, Kurbanov enrolled in the

Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Uzbekistan The Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Uzbekistan ( uz, O'zbekiston Respublikasi Ichki ishlar vazirligi akademiyasi), also known as the Tashkent Police School ( uz, Toshkent politsiya maktabi) is the main educational institution of the ...

, of which he graduated from in 1994. In December 2013, Kurbanov was appointed to the post of Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Uzbekistan. n 2015, Colonel Kurbanov was appointed as Head of the Main Department of Internal Affairs of the City of Tashkent. In the years that followed, he served in various positions in the internal services and military units of the armed forces, such as Commander of the

Tashkent Military District The Tashkent Military District (, ), also known as the Tashkent Operational Command (, ) is a military district of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Uzbekistan based in the capital city of Tashkent. It serves the territory of the Tashkent Region ...

Defence minister

On 11 February 2019, Kurbanov was appointed as Minister of Defense, replacing Lieutenant General

Abdusalom Azizov Abdusalom Abdumavlonovich Azizov ( Uzbek: Abdusalom Abdumavlonovich Azizov; born January 20, 1960) is an Uzbek military leader who was the Minister of Defence of Uzbekistan from September 4, 2017 to February 11, 2019. He now serves as head of the ...

, who was transferred to the National Security Service. One of his first actions as defence minister was to chair a conference of the

Chiefs of Defence Chief may refer to: Title or rank Military and law enforcement * Chief master sergeant, the ninth, and highest, enlisted rank in the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force * Chief of police, the head of a police department * Chief of the boa ...

of the militaries of

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, as well as the Commander of the

United States Central Command The United States Central Command (USCENTCOM or CENTCOM) is one of the eleven unified combatant commands of the U.S. Department of Defense. It was established in 1983, taking over the previous responsibilities of the Rapid Deployment Joint Tas ...

Joseph Votel Joseph Leonard Votel (born February 14, 1958) is a retired four-star general in the United States Army who was commander of United States Central Command from March 2016 to March 2019. Before that, he served as commander of the United States Specia ...

. Since 15 August 2020, he has concurrently been the Chairman of the Mixed Martial Arts Association (MMA) of Uzbekistan.Триатлон федерациясига Хавфсизлик кенгаши котиби, ММА ассоциациясига эса мудофаа вазири раис бўлди
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kurbanov, Bakhodir Uzbekistani politicians Uzbekistani military personnel Defence Ministers of Uzbekistan People from Jizzakh Region Living people 1969 births

Life and career

Defence minister

See also

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