Alexander Boechko

Alexander Dmitrievich Boechko (; born 1965) is a Belarusian military officer who served as chairman of the State Border Committee of the Republic of Belarus from August 2012 to November 2013.

Early life and education Alexander Boechko was born in 1965 in the Novohrad-Volynskyi Raion of the Zhytomyr Oblast of the Ukrainian SSR.

In 1986, he graduated from the Tbilisi Higher Artillery Command School in Georgia. He also graduated from the in 1999 and the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia in 2009.

After the war, Boechko served in the Border Guard Service of Belarus, first in the Grodno and then the Lida Border Groups. Candidacy of Boechko was supported by former Minister of Defense, Leonid Maltsev. However, the president was unhappy with his performance and fired him on 2 November 2012. Opposition media linked his dismissal to the crash of a Belarusian An-2 less than a month earlier in the Zhytomyr Oblast of Ukraine, which was reportedly involved in cigarette smuggling.

During his tenure, Belarus finalized its border with Latvia in 2013.

In 2014, Boechko was appointed as the border representative to the CIS Executive Committee. He held this position until 2023, when he was replaced by another former chairman of the Belarusian border guard, Anatoly Lappo. He has held the rank of colonel since 2003.

Personal life Alexander Boechko is married and has two sons. Order of the Red Banner (Soviet Union, 1988)