Valery Gerasimov

Russian general (born 1955)

General of the Army Valery Vasilyevich Gerasimov (born 8 September 1955) is a Russian military officer who has been the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces and first deputy minister of defense since 2012. His previous commands included three military districts and a combined arms army. Gerasimov was born in Kazan and was commissioned in the Soviet Army after graduating from the Kazan Higher Tank Command School in 1977.

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