Oleg Belokonev
Belarusian military officer
Major General Oleg Alexeyevich Belokonev (Belarusian: Алег Аляксеевіч Белаконеў, Aleh Alyakseyevich Belakoneu, Russian: Олег Алексеевич Белоконев; born 15 May 1965) is a Belarusian general who was the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Belarus from 2014 to 2019. He notably oversaw the Zapad 2017 exercise with Russia during his tenure as Chief of the General Staff.
Biography
He was born on 15 May 1965 in a rural village in the Primorsky Krai region of the Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic. He is of Russian origin. He first began his service in the Armed Forces of the USSR in the early 1980s. He graduated with honors in 1987 from the Omsk Higher All-Arms Command School and was immediately sent to serve in the armed forces thereafter. Belokonev then began to rise to the position of platoon commander and eventually commander of a motorized rifle battalion.
In 1999 Belokonev graduated with a gold medal from the Military Academy of Belarus before going back into active duty service in the Armed Forces of Belarus. In the early 2000s, Belokonev primarily served in the area of operations of the Grodno Military Commandant of the Western Operational Command.
In August 2010, he was appointed commander of Belarusian Special Forces.
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