Yuri Zhadobin

Lieutenant-General Yuri Viktorovich Zhadobin (Belarusian: Юрый Віктаравіч Жадобін) was the Defense Minister of Belarus from 4 December 2009 – 27 November 2014.[1] He replaced Leonid Maltsev and was succeeded by Andrei Ravkov.

Yuri Viktorovich Zhadobin was born on 14 November 1954 in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR.

In 1976, he was admitted to the Kazan Higher Tank Command School. In 1985, he joined the command department of the Military Academy of Armored Forces. In 1999, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs. In September 2003, he became the head of the Presidential Security Service. He was appointed chairman of the KGB on 17 July 2007. He served as the State Secretary of the Security Council from 2008 to 2009.

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