MOSCOW, October 9 (AVN) - President Vladimir Putin has appointed Yuri Brazhnikov deputy minister of emergency situations, the Military News Agency learned on Monday.
Brazhnikov was born in Germany in 1947. He graduated from the Belarussian Lenin State University in 1970 and the Timoshenko Military Academy of Chemical Protection in 1977.
In the next two years, Brazhnikov was a junior researcher at the Shikhany testing ground in the Volga region. From 1987 to 1989, he served as a senior researcher of the General Staff operative and strategic research centre, then became deputy head of the international co-operation sector in the State Commission of the USSR Council of Ministers.
Brazhnikov joined the Emergencies in 1991. He worked as deputy head of a sector in the Russian State Committee for Emergency Situations, then as a senior official of the committee's main international co-operation department. He was awarded the Order of Friendship and the Order of Courage and commissioned the rank of reserve colonel.
Prior to his current appointment, Brazhnikov headed the Emergencies Ministry international co-operation department.