Lieutenant General Ramil Khalilovich Nadyrov () is a Tajik military leader who was the

Chief of the General Staff The Chief of the General Staff (CGS) is a post in many armed forces (militaries), the head of the military staff. List * Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (United States) * Chief of the General Staff (Abkhazia) * Chief of General Staff (Afg ...

of the

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from 2002 to 2014. He was also the first Chief of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) from April 2003 to June 2004.

Biography

He was born on July 24, 1967 in the city of Kurgan-Tube (now called

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), in what was then the

Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic The Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic,, ''Çumhuriji Şūraviji Sotsialistiji Toçikiston''; russian: Таджикская Советская Социалистическая Республика, ''Tadzhikskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Resp ...

. In 1974, he enrolled in the Kolkhozabad Secondary School and graduated from it with gold medal. In 1988, he graduated from the Chernigov Higher Military Aviation Pilot School after four years, and served in

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in a fighter regiment of the

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. On 11 May 1992, he was appointed as Senior-Assistant to the Head of Duty Shift of 806th Air Traffic Control. After the

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, he served in the Ministry of Defense of Tajikistan in the positions of senior officer of the

Tajik Air Force The Tajik Air and Air Defense Forces (russian: Военно-воздушные силы и противовоздушная оборона Таджикистана; ) is the aerial military service branch of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Ta ...

, chief of operations, and deputy chief of staff of the Air Force. On 24 June 1998, he graduated from the

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(which he was enrolled on 8 September 1995) with a gold medal. He then served as Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the

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. He was appointed to the post of Chief of the General Staff on 22 August 2001, serving concurrently as the First Deputy Minister of Defense to Minister

Sherali Khayrulloyev Sherali Khayrulloyevich Khayrulloyev (russian: Шерали Хайруллоевич Хайруллоев; tg, Шералӣ Хайруллоевич Хайруллоев) is a retired Tajikistani general and politician. He was the Minister of D ...

. On 1 January 2004, the Joint Headquarters of the

CSTO The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) is an intergovernmental military alliance in Eurasia consisting of six post-Soviet states: Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan. The Collective Security Treaty has ...

began operating in Moscow on the basis of the

Russian General Staff The General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (russian: Генеральный штаб Вооружённых сил Российской Федерации, General'nyy shtab Vooruzhonnykh sil Rossiyskoy Federatsii) is the mil ...

. Major General Nadyrov was appointed Chief of Staff of the CSTO, appointed on April 28, 2003 and taking up duties on 1 January. In 2006, he was again appointed Chief of the General Staff, a position he held up until early 2014, when he was succeeded by

Zarif Sharifzoda Major General Zarif Sharifzoda ( Russian and Tajik: Зариф Шарифзода) was a Tajik general who was the former Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Tajikistan. Biography He was born Zarif Tairovich Boboka ...

. Since then, he has been at the disposal of the Human Resources Department of the Ministry of Defense.

Awards

He holds many governmental awards such as the

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, as well as 21 medals. Dates of rank: * Colonel (2002) *

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(21 February 2003) *

Lieutenant General Lieutenant general (Lt Gen, LTG and similar) is a three-star military rank (NATO code OF-8) used in many countries. The rank traces its origins to the Middle Ages, where the title of lieutenant general was held by the second-in-command on the ...

(21 February 2006)

Personal life

His wife is Alina Anatolyevna Nadyrova, born in 1974 in Kurgan-Tube. She works at the Second Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the

Avicenna Tajik State Medical University Avicenna Tajik State Medical University (; russian: Таджикский государственный медицинский университет) or ATSMU is a public university in Tajikistan. Established in 1939, it is located in Dushanbe ...

. They have three daughters: Adeliya Nadyrova (born in 1993), Ameliya Nadyrova (born in 2004) and Ildari Nadyrova (born in 2006).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nadyrov, Ramil 1967 births Living people Tajikistani generals Chiefs of the General Staff (Tajikistan)