MOSCOW, March 28 (AVN) - Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed Colonel-General Anatoly Perminov space troops commander on Wednesday, a spokesman for the presidential administration told the Military News Agency.
The space troops are a new military branch separated from the Strategic Missile Forces (SMF), stressed the spokesman. Prior to his current appointment the general was SMF chief-of-staff and first deputy commander.
Perminov was born in the central Russian Kirov region in 1945. He graduated from the Kirov Military Command and Engineering Institute, the Dzerzhinsky Military Academy and the General Staff Academy. He was appointed head of the state testing ground in Plesetsk in 1989, grew to head of the main department of missile armament use and military equipment in August 1993, and to SMF first deputy chief-of-staff in November 1994.
Perminov was appointed SMF chief-of-staff and first deputy commander on Septermber 1, 1997.