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Siberian Military District for service with an anti-aircraft missile division. He rose through the ranks and posts over the following years, and after studies at the Military Command Academy of Air Defence, had staff and command positions across the Soviet Union, in the Odessa,

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s, as well as abroad in

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as part of the

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. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Yuryev continued to serve in the military, and graduated from the

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in 1994. Service as a division commander in the

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followed, and in 2001 he became commander of the

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. Yuryev served as the Army's commander until retiring in 2006 with the rank of

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. In retirement Yuryev worked for the automobile manufacturer

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, and was also president of the "M. T. Kalashnikov Military-Sport Union". He had a career in local politics, sitting as a deputy in the as a representative of

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. Over his career Yuryev had received several government awards, and those of the

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.

Military career

Yuryev was born on 28 March 1951 in the city of Novorossiysk,

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, then part of the

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, in the

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. His father Leonid Yevgenievich Yuryev, born in 1914, was a soldier, while his mother, Anna Stepanovna Yuryeva, born in 1918, was a medical worker. Both are buried in the village of , Stavropolsky District,

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. He studied at the Engels Anti-Aircraft Missile School as a cadet from 1968, graduating in 1972. He was then appointed head of intelligence of an anti-aircraft missile division in the Siberian Military District, serving as such until 1974. He was then appointed senior engineer of a mobile radar complex in the Siberian Military District, holding the position until 1977, when he became head of a regimental command post and deputy chief of staff, still within the Siberian Military District. In 1979 he enrolled in the Military Command Academy of Air Defence, graduating in 1982. General-staff-academy-building-moscow-russia-may-2016

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After completing his studies at the Academy, Yuryev was appointed the commander of an anti-aircraft missile division in the

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, before, in 1984, becoming chief of staff and deputy commander of an anti-aircraft missile brigade stationed in

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, as part of the

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. This posting lasted until 1985, when he became commander of the brigade, before returning to the Soviet Union in 1988 to take up the post of chief of staff and deputy commander of an air defence division in

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. From 1989 to 1991 Yuryev was chief of staff and deputy commander of the air defence division in the

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, and then from 1991 to 1992 he was deputy commander of the air defence corps in the

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. In 1992 Yuryev enrolled in the

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, specialising in the study of command and staff-level operational and strategic issues. He graduated in 1994 and became a division commander in the

Far Eastern Military District The Far Eastern Military District (russian: Дальневосточный военный округ; Dalʹnevostochnyĭ voennyĭ okrug) was a military district of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 2010 it was merged with the Pacific ...

. From 1997 until 2001 he served as commander of the Separate Air Defence Corps, part of the

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, based in

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. In 2001 he became commander of the

5th Air and Air Defence Forces Army The 5th Army of VVS and PVO (''5-я Краснознамённая армия военно-воздушных сил и противовоздушной обороны'') was the Russian Air Force's smallest Air Army, with the headquarters located ...

. During his time in command the 5th Army's area of responsibility included twenty-two subjects of the Russian Federation: five

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, four autonomous okrugs, and thirteen

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. During time in command the Kant air base in

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was established as an overseas base of the 5th Army, as part of the aviation component of the

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. The 5th Air and Air Defence Forces Army also had responsibility for the launch and recovery of manned and unmanned space objects, with Yuryev and his personnel achieving good results in this work. Between 2003 and 2005 the 5th Air and Air Defence Forces Army was recognized as the best in Russia's Air Forces for combat readiness, combat training, the state of military discipline and the rule of law. For this the Army and its personnel received the thanks of the President of Russia. Yuryev served as the Army's commander until retiring in April 2006 with the rank of

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.

Retirement and political career

Following his retirement, Yuryev was hired in June 2006 by the automobile manufacturer

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to be its Deputy General Director for Social and Economic Development and Cooperation with Government Agencies. From 2007 he was employed as AvtoVAZ's executive director for interaction with government bodies. In retirement he was also president of the "M. T. Kalashnikov Military-Sport Union". Yuryev embarked on a career in local politics, winning a seat in the IV convocation on 11 March 2007, as a representative of

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. He sat as Deputy Chairman of the Samara Provincial Duma. On 30 January 2012 Yuryev announced that he was leaving United Russia to "get out of the backstage struggle." He registered as an independent candidate in that year's mayoral elections for the city of

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, winning 3.96 percent of the vote. Over his career Yuryev had received the government awards of the

Order "For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" The Order "For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" (russian: Орден «За службу Родине в Вооружённых Силах СССР»), also known as the Order "For Service to the Motherland in the Armed For ...

Third Class in 1987, and the

Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" The Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" (russian: Орден «За заслуги перед Отечеством», ''Orden "Za zaslugi pered Otechestvom"'') is a state decoration of the Russian Federation. It was instituted on 2 March 1994 by P ...

Fourth Class in 2001. He had also received the several orders of the

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; the Order of Holy Prince Daniel of Moscow Third Class, the

Order of Saint Righteous Grand Duke Dmitry Donskoy The Order of Saint Righteous Grand Duke Dmitry Donskoy is an award of the Russian Orthodox Church. It was created on 1 October 2004 by Patriarch Alexiy II and the Holy Synod as a means of marking courageous service to the Russian state or contribu ...

Third Class and the Third Class. He also had over thirty medals. On 28 April 2009 the Samara Provincial Duma awarded him an honorary badge "For merits in lawmaking."

Death

Yuryev died on 25 April 2020 at the age of 69. His funeral and burial took place on 27 April at the Church of Saint George the Victorious in the village of . He was married, with a daughter and a granddaughter.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Yuryev, Yevgeny 1951 births 2020 deaths People from Novorossiysk Russian lieutenant generals Recipients of the Medal of Zhukov Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class Recipients of the Order "For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR", 3rd class Recipients of the Order of Holy Prince Daniel of Moscow Recipients of the Order of Saint Righteous Grand Duke Dmitry Donskoy, 3rd class Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia alumni Zhukov Air and Space Defence Academy alumni