Major General Pavel Ismailovich Ergashev is an Uzbek military leader who is a

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of the

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. He was appointed to this position on 11 January 2018 and was dismissed in March 2021. He is the son of former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Major General

Ismail Ergashev Ismail Ergashevitch Ergashev ( uz, Ismoil Ergashevitch Ergashev) was an Uzbek general who has served as second person to hold the post of Chief of the Joint Headquarters of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of Uzbekistan from 2004 to 2005. He ...

. He was among 12 high-ranking officials were banned from entering the

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for a year in November 2005 for their role in putting down the

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. At the time, he was a Colonel who commanded of a detachment of from the

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. On 4 September 2017, he was appointed by

Shavkat Mirziyoyev Shavkat Miromonovich Mirziyoyev (Uzbek Latin: ''Shavkat Miromonovich (Miromon o‘g‘li) Mirziyoyev'', Uzbek Cyrillic: Шавкат Миромонович (Миромон ўғли) Мирзиёев ; born 24 July 1957) is an Uzbek politician ...

to the post of Acting Deputy Minister of Defense and commander of the troops of the Southwestern Special Military District. He was awarded the Shon-Sharaf Order by President

Islam Karimov Islam Abduganiyevich Karimov ( uz, Islom Abdugʻaniyevich Karimov / Ислом Абдуғаниевич Каримов, italics=no; russian: link=no, Ислам Абдуганиевич Каримов; 30 January 1938 – 2 September 2016) was t ...

in August 2013.

References

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