Borys Dukhov

Boris Innokentyevich Dukhov (Russian: Борис Иннокентьевич Духов; Ukrainian: Борис Інокентійович Духов; 9 November 1937 - 28 November 2011), was a politician and army officer who served as the Commander of the Air Defense Forces of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation from 1991 to 2000.

Dukhov had also served as Member of the Verkhovna Rada before restoring his Russian citizenship, serving from 1990 to 1991.

He was last ranked a colonel general in 1988.

Biography

Boris Dukhov was born in Krasnoyarsk on 9 November 1937 to a family of employees.

In 1945, he went to secondary school in Nizhneudinsk, Irkutsk Oblast.

In 1955, he entered the Leningrad Anti-Aircraft Artillery Technical School.

In April 1960, after graduation, he was appointed head of the radio engineering battery group in the Kiev Military District. Dukhov was appointed commander of the air defense of the Turkestan Military District. He took office in 15 May. He was the member of the Commission of the Verkhovna Rada on Defense and State Security.

On 13 December 1991, Dukhov submitted his deputy's mandate in connection with his appointment to the position of chief of air defense forces of the Ground Forces of the Ministry of Defense of the RSFSR and simultaneous departure from Ukraine.

By December 1991, Dukhov became the commander of the air defense forces of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, after his restoration of his Russian citizenship.

On 31 July 2000, Russian President Vladimir Putin fired Dukhov from the military post upon his retirement.

Dukhov died in Moscow on 28 July 2011 at the age of 73. He was buried at the Troyekurovsky cemetery.