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Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia. Military Academy of Strategic Missile Forces.
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Aleksandr Golovko
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Since 24 December 2012 til 31 July 2015 he was the Commander of the Aerospace Defence Forces. General Golovko was born in Dnipropetrovsk in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1964. He joined the Soviet military and graduated from Marshal Leonid Govorov Air Defence and Radio Engineering Academy in 1986.
After graduation he served in the Titov Main Test and Space Systems Control Centre in the Soviet and Russian Space Forces.
From June 2011 to December 2012 he was the commander of Plesetsk Cosmodrome and was then appointed as head of the Aerospace Defence Forces, replacing Oleg Ostapenko, who had been promoted to Deputy Defence Minister. He commands the Russian Aerospace Defense Forces (2012-2015) before he was appointed as the Commander of the reestablished Russian Space Forces.
