Background
Alexander Belevitin was born on November 22, 1959, in Konosh, Arkhangelsk, Russian Federation. The son of a serviceman.
Alexander Belevitin was born on November 22, 1959, in Konosh, Arkhangelsk, Russian Federation. The son of a serviceman.
Alexander graduated from the faculty of training doctors for the Missile and Land Forces of the Kirov Military Medical Academy (1985).
After graduation, Alexander worked at the ambulance station in Tambov. In 1978-79 he served in the ranks of the Armed Forces of the USSR, served in the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany. In 1985-88 he worked as a doctor of the medical unit of a separate special-purpose brigade of the 40th Army of the Turkestan Military District, was a participant in military operations in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
Since 1990, Alexander worked as a senior resident of the Department of Surgery Improvement of Doctors No. 1 of the Military Medical Academy, assistant to the head of the clinic for cardiovascular surgery. Since 1997, he became a deputy head of the department for clinical work. Since July 2002, he worked as a head of the clinical department, since March 2004 – deputy chief of the Military Medical Academy for Clinical Work. From the 11th of May, 2007, he was the head of the Military Medical Academy (St. Petersburg).
In 2012 Moscow military court sentenced the country's former top army doctor to eight years in prison for abuse of office and large-scale bribery. The court found Major General Alexander Belevitin guilty of ordering two MRI scanners, screening equipment used to produce images of internal bodily structures, for the Defense Ministry at inflated prices and skimming off a portion of the profits, the Rapsi news agency reported.