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Main Armor/Tank Directorate

Chief --- MAYEV, Sergey, Col-Gen (Segodnya, 12 Sep 97 p 3).  (Krasnaya Zvezda, 3 Apr 01).
[Lieutenant-General Yuriy Kovalenko was referred to as, "head of the Defense Ministry's armored vehicle department" (Agentstvo Voyennykh Novostey, 5 Sep 02).]

 

  • [Merger of the Main Armor Directorate and the Main Motor-Vehicle Directorate was approved in Nov. 1994.
  • [[Galkin]  “It is responsible for 41 armored and vehicle equipment repair plants, several dozen bases for storing armored and vehicle equipment and related property, tank and vehicle higher military schools, two research institutes, and several dozen military reception centers which organize the production of armored equipment and military vehicles." (Krasnaya Zvezda 25 Mar 95 p 3).]
  • [[Galkin] “The Main Armored Directorate has in its jurisdiction 47 repair enterprises, at which armored and automotive hardware is repaired. ” (Krasnaya Zvezda 7 Sep 96 pp 1-2).]
  • [Previous Chief was GALKIN, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich, Col-Gen, (Krasnaya Zvezda 12 Sep 87 p 1) Noted as, Lt-Gen, (Krasnaya Zvezda 2 Apr 88 p 2)  Noted as a Col-Gen, (Krasnaya Zvezda 9 Sep 90 1st Ed p 1). (Russian Public Television 0600 GMT 8 Sep 96).  BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION, GALKIN:  in the Army since 1954.  Ulyanovsk Guards Tank Command School (1958), the engineering faculty of the Armored Troops Military Academy (1968), and the General Staff Academy (1979). Served in the Group of Soviet Troops in Germany, in Moscow and Odessa Military Districts, and in the Far East, consecutively holding posts ranging from deputy commander of a tank battalion for technical affairs to Deputy Commander of the Far East MD for Armaments.  Since February 1995 Chief of the Main Armored Directorate of the Russian Federation Ministry of Defense. (Krasnaya Zvezda 7 Sep 96 pp 1-2).]

First Deputy Chief --- ZHURAVLEV, Nikolay Alekseyevich, Lt-Gen, (Krasnaya Zvezda 10 Aug 90 1st ed p 1) Noted as a Lt-Gen, (Moscow TEKHNIKA I VOORUZHENIYE in Russian No 2, Feb 93 pp 41, 44-45).
Deputy Chief  --- REBRIKOV, Vladimir, Lt-Gen (Krasnaya Zvezda 29 May 01).
Deputy Chief (Repair) POPOV, Nikolay B., Lt-Gen (Voyeninform Military News Agency, 27 Jul 00).
Deputy Chief --- KOVALEV, Nikolay G., Lt-Gen (Krasnaya Zvezda 13 Apr 96 p 3). (Agentstvo voyennykh novostey, 13 January, 2000).

  • [KOVALEV: First Deputy Chief of the former Main Motor-Vehicle Directorate Appointed May 1994, (Moscow VOYENIFORM MILITARY NEWS BULLETIN No 9 (33), Sep 94 p 4).]

 Deputy Chief --- ISAKOV, Nikolay, Lt-Gen, (Armeyskiy Sbornik, Nov 95 No 11, (Signed  to press 25 Oct 95) pp 46-48).

Armor Maintenance and Supply Directorate

  • (Itar-Tass 1800 GMT 17 Feb 93).

38th Armor and Tank Military Equipment Scientific Research / Testing Institute (Kubinka) (NIIBT)

  • (Russian Public Television 0600 GMT 8 Sep 96).

Chief --- DERYABIN, Nikolay, Maj-Gen (Moscow Segodnya in Russian 12 Sep 97 p 3).

Deputy Director of RF MoD Scientific Research Institute --- DOBROMIROV, Viktor, (Russian Public Television 0900 GMT 12 Dec 97).

Omsk Tank Engineering Institute

  • [Subordination unknown (Agentstvo Voyennykh Novostey 23 Apr 01 ).]

Scientific-Technical Committee

Chief --- YELISEYEVM Aleksandr, Maj-Gen (Agentstvo voyennykh novostey, 24 March, 2000).