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The last USSR Defense Minister, Air Marshal Yevgeny Shaposhnikov, died of coronavirus.
According to the Telegram channel Mash, on November 25, Shaposhnikov, 78, was diagnosed with COVID-19 and pneumonia. The former official was hospitalized in one of the Moscow hospitals and connected to a ventilator.
On December 5, his condition worsened and his blood oxygen level dropped dramatically. On December 8, Shaposhnikov died.
Evgeny Shaposhnikov was born in 1942 in the Rostov region. In 1963 he graduated from the Kharkov Higher School of Military Aviation Pilots, later the Air Force Academy. Gagarin and the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR.
From 1959 he served in the Air Force of the USSR Armed Forces as a fighter pilot. In the 1960s, he became a flight commander in the Carpathian Military District. He then worked in various managerial positions.
He headed the USSR Ministry of Defense from August 23 to December 26, 1991. In the same year he was granted the rank of Air Marshal. Until September 24, 1993, he was in command of the CIS Armed Forces.
In June 1993 he was appointed Secretary of the Russian Security Council. He also served as a representative of the then President of the Russian Federation, Boris Yeltsin, in Rosvooruzheniye.
In 1995 he headed Aeroflot and in March 1997 he became Assistant to the President of Russia in the development of aviation and cosmonautics.
In the early 2000s, he worked as an advisor to the CEO of JSC Sukhoi Company and later became a member of the board of directors of JSC Sukhoi Civil Aircraft.
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