Yury Zhadobin

Lieutenant-General Yuri Viktorovich Zhadobin (Belarusian: Юрый Віктаравіч Жадобін) was the Chairman of the KGB of the Republic of Belarus from 2007 to 2008 and the Minister of Defence of Belarus from 4 December 2009 to 27 November 2014. He replaced Leonid Maltsev and was succeeded by Andrei Ravkov. Zhadobin was subject to international sanctions as a person responsible for political repressions and human rights violations in Belarus.

Biography

Yuri Viktorovich Zhadobin was born on 14 November 1954 in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR.

In 1976, he was admitted to the Kazan Higher Tank Command School. In 1985, he joined the command department of the Malinovsky Military Armored Forces Academy. In 1999, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs. In September 2003, he became the head of the Presidential Security Service.

Personal life He is married to Larisa Alexandrovna, a doctor who teaches at the Faculty of Humanities of the Belarusian State University where she is currently a senior lecturer. He has one daughter named Aliaksandra, who is a captain of the internal services and a senior legal advisor to the department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations where he husband works.