Alexander Shishlyannikov

Major General Alexander Vladimirovich Shishlyannikov (Russian: Александр Владимирович Шишлянников) is a Tajik military officer and the first Minister of Defence of Tajikistan, serving from 1993 to 1995. He is an ethnic Russian.

Alexander Shishlyannikov
Александр Шишлянников
Minister of Defence of Tajikistan
In office
1993 – April 7, 1995
PresidentRahmon Nabiyev
Preceded byPost Established
Succeeded bySherali Khayrulloyev
Personal details
Born3 November 1950 (1950-11-03)
Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, USSR
Military service
Branch/service Soviet Army
 Tajik National Army
Years of service1971-1995
RankMajor General
Battles/warsSoviet-Afghan War
Tajik Civil War

Biography

Alexander Shishlyannikov was born on November 3, 1950 in Tashkent, the capital of the Uzbek SSR. In 1971, he graduated from the Tashkent Higher Tank Command School in Chirchik, and 10 years later, he graduated from the Malinovsky Military Armored Forces Academy in Moscow. In the 1980s, Shishlyannikov served in the Central and Turkestan Military District (based in the Kazakh and Uzbek capitals of Alma-Ata and Tashkent respectively), as well as the Western Group of Forces in East Germany. During this time, he was deployed with the Soviet 40th Army[1] to Afghanistan in the early stages of the Soviet-Afghan War.[2] By the time of the fall of the Soviet Union and the creation of independent nations, he was serving as an officer in the Uzbek defense ministry.

In January 1993, Colonel Shishlyannikov was appointed as the first defense minister of Tajikistan. He was among 200 officers brought from Uzbekistan on the orders of Emomali Rahmon.[3] One month later on February 23, Shishlyannikov would lead the celebrations in honor of the founding of the Tajik Armed Forces. During his tenure, it was expected that he would temporary and would eventually be replaced by Colonel Ramazon Radjabov, his deputy who was in favor with many elite circles.[4] Shishlyannikov played a key role in the early stages of the Tajik Civil War. In later July of that year, he hosted visiting Russian defence minister Pavel Grachev, where be criticized the position of "individual leaders of the CIS countries" for the proposals of the CIS Joint Armed Forces Command to bring peacekeeping forces into the republic being unfulfilled.[5]

He was relieved of his post on April 7, 1995, being succeeded by Sherali Khayrulloyev.[6][7][8]

References
  1. http://www.tajikistan.turkestan.ru/tj/konflikt/war1.html
  2. https://russian.rt.com/science/article/489814-tadzhikistan-rossiyskie-pogranichniki/amp
  3. https://regnum.ru/news/1578940.html
  4. https://asiaplustj.info/ru/news/tajikistan/society/20170615/on-ne-vernulsya-iz-boya
  5. https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/54173
  6. "Real efforts to create a genuine armed forces awaited the appointment of (ethnic Russian) Colonel Alexander Shishlyannikov as Defense Minister in January 1993".
  7. http://www.centrasia.ru/person2.php?st=1013881273
  8. http://www.labyrinth.ru/content/card.asp?cardid=28422
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