Nikolai Lukashevich
Nikolai Lukashevich | |
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Native name | Николай Филиппович Лукашевич |
Born | 15 January 1941 Colonel General |
Commands held | Far Eastern Border District |
Awards | Order of Friendship of Peoples Order of the Red Star |
Nikolai Filippovich Lukashevich (Russian: Николай Филиппович Лукашевич; 15 January 1941 – 15 June 2021) was an officer of the Soviet military who held a number of posts in the Soviet Border Forces, and later the FSB Border Service, reaching the rank of colonel general.
Career
Lukashevich was born on 15 January 1941 in what was then the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, in the Soviet Union.[1][2] He joined the Soviet Border Forces in 1961, and in 1965 graduated from the Alma-Ata Higher Command Border School.[1][2] He was initially posted to serve in various positions in the KGB's Eastern Border District, in the territory of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic.[1] Here he spent the next 20 years, rising from the rank of lieutenant to colonel, and from the position of deputy commander of a border outpost, to head of a front-line detachment.[2][3]
Lukashevich enrolled in the
In May 1994 he joined the Academy of Border Forces, and from 1996 was a professor at the FSB Academy.[1] He retired from the military in 1999 with the rank of colonel general, and went to work at the Atlas Science and Technology Center until 2008.[1][3] Having become a specialist in the field of geopolitics and the theory of command and control, he wrote more than 20 scientific works, including three monographs, two textbooks and a number of teaching aids.[2]
Lukashevich died on 15 June 2021 at the age of 80.[2] He was buried at the Federal Military Memorial Cemetery on 17 June.[2] Over his career he received numerous awards and honours, including the Order of Friendship of Peoples and the Order of the Red Star, various departmental awards, and 27 medals.[1][3]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Лукашевич Николай Филиппович" (in Russian). shieldandsword.mozohin.ru. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Служба ВМК организовала похороны генерал-полковника Николая Филипповича Лукашевича" (in Russian). vmks.rf. 17 June 2021. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
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value (help) - ^ a b c d "Лукашевич Николай Филиппович" (in Russian). Centre of Military-Political Research. Retrieved 22 June 2021.