Biography Popovkin Vladimir

Do you want to see only good news? Return to ordinary tape? Prior to this appointment, from June he served as the First Deputy Minister of Defense of Russia. Earlier, he held the positions of the head of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation - Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, commander of the space forces of the Russian Federation, chief of staff - First Deputy Commander of the Space Forces, a retired Army, candidate of technical sciences.

Vladimir Alexandrovich Popovkin [25], [20] was born on September 25th [26], [32], [22]. After the end of the technical school, Father Popovkin served in the tank division. Vladimir Popovkin was born there, and three years later - and his younger brother Vasily. After the Tashkent earthquake, Popovkin moved to the city of Kalinin Tver, where Vladimir began to study at the Physics and Mathematics School [30].

In the year, Popovkin graduated in Leningrad, the Faculty of Military Engineering Institute named after Mozhaisky, after which he went to serve on the Baikonur Cosmodrome [26], [30]. He served as an officer and senior officer of the department of the head of the space funds of the USSR Ministry of Defense. In the year he moved to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation of the Russian Federation, held the positions of the senior officer officer, the head of the group, deputy head of the department, and in the year he was appointed head of the direction in the main operational department of the General Staff [26], [32], [32].

In the summer of the year, by decree of President Vladimir Putin, Major General Popovkin was appointed chief of staff - the first deputy commander of the space forces of Anatoly Perminov [36], [26]. In December of the same year, Popovkin was also mentioned in the press as the head of the Board of Trustees of the Military Space Peter the Great Cadet Corps - an educational institution engaged in the training of mainly future officers of the space forces [35].

In March, by decree of the head of state, Lieutenant General Popovkin was appointed commander of the space forces of the Russian Federation, previously held this post of Perminov shortly before this became the new head of the Federal Space Agency of Russia Roscosmos [34], [28], [31]. Subsequently, the journalists who wrote about Popovkin called him the youngest leader "in the upper echelons of the military government" and read the continuation of a successful career "After all, such projects are being discussed - some flight plans for Mars are worth it!

It was reported that Popovkin, together with the head of the dews, Viktor Cherkesov, was to build a "new system of procurement for state defense -offs" [25], [27]. In February, Popovkin received the title of Army General [38], [14]. In April, Popovkin was fired from military service, but in the rank of a civil servant he retained his position [23], [24], [22].

Commenting on Popovkin’s exit to resignation, journalists drew attention to the fact that he would be able to work in the Ministry of Defense in the future “without loss in the salary”, but until then, until they get tired ”[21]. In June, Popovkin [16], by the Decree of President Dmitry Medvedev, was appointed First Deputy Minister of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov. Popovkin's predecessor, Colonel General Alexander Kolmakov, was relieved of his post and dismissed from military service.

Medvedev also said that the new first deputy minister "would coordinate the issues of weapons, military equipment, to solve other issues related to the civil component of the" Ministry of Defense [18], [19]. Already in July, the department, headed by Popovkin, announced the plans almost doubles - from 13 to 20 trillion rubles to increase allocation to finance the state weapons program for the Russian army for years [15].

At the end of April, Medvedev dismissed Popovkin from office in connection with the transition to a new job - instead of Anatoly Perminov, he was appointed head of Roscosmos [11], [12], [13]. In August, Roscosmos suffered a number of failures with launching missiles-at first the Proton-M launch vehicle was unable to bring the Express-Am4 communications satellite a communications satellite, then the Soyuz-U carrier with the unmanned ship Progress MM, which was supposed to be attached to the ISS.

Experts associated these accidents with the "crisis in the industry", and they called it "systemic", and not related to the activities of Popovkin [8], [9]. In November, Roscosmos suffered another major failure: the Automatic interplanetary station Fobos Grunct, which for the first time had to deliver samples of soil from the satellite of Mars to Earth, as a result of an emergency, could not leave the earth's orbit [5], [6], [7].

Popovkin in an interview, which he gave on January 9, Izvestia, said that the reasons for the refusal of the motor installation of the apparatus remained unknown, emphasizing that the launch of Fobos Gront, which was “designed and created in a limited amount of funds,” was originally associated with great risk.At the same time, the official did not rule out that “very powerful means of influence” were applied to the “phobos group”, when he was outside the visibility zone of Russian means of tracking.

The same "impact", according to Popovkin, who could cause failures in the work of other Russian spacecraft. The official explained that such situations can be prevented using a satellite relay “Ray” relay, which was supposed to be restored by the year and could allow to control the work of spacecraft outside the visibility of ground -based tracking stations in the CIS [4], [10], [39].

In the report submitted by the head of Roscosmos by a special interagency commission on January 30 of the year, the most likely cause of the phobos group accident was named a programming error [2]. On February 2, Popovkin himself stated that the version of the destructive effect on the electronics of the "phobos" of the American radar did not find experimental confirmation [1]. Popovkin has a degree of candidate of technical sciences [26].

He was awarded the orders "For Merit to the Fatherland" of the IV degree, "For military merits", the medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" of the II degree and other medals [30]. Popovkan is married for the second time, raises his daughter Anna, from his first marriage he had a daughter Natalya [17], [30]. Used materials [1] Sergey Buntman.

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