MOSCOW. Oct 25 (Interfax-AVN) - Colonel Nikolai Ignatov, the new commander of the 7th airborne division headquartered in Novorossiysk, got down to his duties on Friday, deputy chief of the Airborne Troops' HR department Colonel Sergei Dragunov told Interfax-Military News Agency.
Ignatov replaced Major General Yuri Krivosheyev, who quit the Armed Forces upon reaching the retirement age," Dragunov said.
Ignatov was born in the village of Dmitriyevskoye in the Tula region on May 13, 1956. He graduated from the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command College in 1980, Frunze Military Academy in 1990 and General Staff Academy in 2001.
"Ignatov has held various posts in the Airborne Troops. He got the title of the Hero of Russia for participation in the Moscow events of October 1993. He commanded a separate airborne brigade within the SFOR multinational peacekeeping forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1999. Upon graduation from the General Staff Academy in June 2001, he was appointed assistant to the airborne commander in charge of political work," Dragunov said.