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Source: General Afonin will head the Military Academy of the Peter the Great Strategic Missile Forces

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The new head of the academy will be presented on December 7, the interlocutor of TASS noted

MOSCOW, December 7. /tass/. The new head of the Military Academy of Strategic Missile Forces named after Peter the Great, Lieutenant General Igor Afonin, will be presented on December 7 on the Day of the Military Academy. This was reported to TASS by a source close to the military department.

"On Tuesday, during the solemn formation of the personnel of the Military Academy of the Strategic Missile Forces, it is expected that a ceremony will be held to introduce the new head of the educational institution, Lieutenant General Igor Afonin," he said.

TASS has no official confirmation of this information.

Prior to this appointment, Afonin held the position of commander of the Omsk Rocket Army.

Since 2019, the academy has been commanded by Major General Leonid Mikholap, who was dismissed from military service.

In 2020, the Academy celebrated the 200th anniversary of its foundation. She is the heiress of the Mikhailovsky Artillery School (St. Petersburg). In 1953, she was relocated to Moscow, and in 2015 she moved from Kitay-Gorod to Balashikha near Moscow. According to the Russian military department, among the academy's students are 194 cavaliers of the Military Order of St. George, 128 Heroes of the Soviet Union, three Heroes of Russia, 39 Heroes of Labor and more than 300 laureates of state prizes. The Academy, the main forge of strategic missile personnel, has more than 20 military-special scientific schools covering the main areas of research in the interests of ensuring the development of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, primarily the Strategic Missile Forces and Space Forces, improving weapons and military equipment, methods of their use, as well as maintaining combat readiness of troops.

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