MOSCOW, August 6 (AVN) - Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed Lieutenant General Mikhail Rudchenko at the post of deputy interior minister and chief of the Interior Ministry main department for the Southern federal district, a spokesman for the Putin administration told the Military News Agency on Monday.
Rudchenko was born in the Kunakovo village of the Saratov region on July 1, 1945. He started working as a policeman in 1971 in the criminal investigation department. Rudchenko was on service trip in Afghanistan in 1980 to 1981. He was appointed first deputy chief of the Saratov regional police department and chief of the criminal investigation police in 1993 while in 1991 he became head of the Krasnoyarsk territory police.
With Rudchenko's appointment Russian Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov completed the organisation of leadership in recently formed police departments in federal districts. Though only chief of the Southern federal district police department was promoted to the rank of deputy interior minister.