Lieutenant General, Hero of Russia Rustam Usmanovich Muradov was born on March 21, 1973 in the village of Chinar, Derbent District of the Dagestan ASSR (now the Republic of Dagestan).

Petersburg Higher Combined Arms Command School, graduated from the Combined Arms Academy of the RF Armed Forces, in 2015 – the Military Academy of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces.

He passed all command positions from platoon commander to combined armed army commander. He repeatedly took part in special operations to suppress the activities of bandit formations on the territory of the North Caucasus region.

He commanded the 136th separate motorized rifle brigade (Buinaksk, Dagestan), the 242nd motorized rifle regiment of the 20th combined arms army (Kamyshin, Volgograd region), the 17th separate motorized rifle brigade (Shali, Chechnya) and the 36th reconnaissance company. separate motorized rifle brigade (Borsia, Trans-Baikal Territory).

March-September 2013 – head of the special training center of the Central Military District (Elansky village, Kamyshlov district, Sverdlovsk region).

since 2015 – First Deputy Chief of Staff of the 41st Combined Arms Army (Novosibirsk).

from December 2017 – Commander of the 2nd Guard Combined Arms Red Banner Army of the Central Military District (Samara). As part of the grouping of the RF Armed Forces, he took part in a military operation in Syria against the international terrorist organization “Islamic State” (prohibited in Russia).

from December 2018 – Deputy Commander of the Southern Military District.

From November 2020 to September 2021 – the commander of the military formations of the RF Armed Forces in Nagorno-Karabakh. The peacekeeping force was deployed in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone, along the contact line in Nagorno-Karabakh and along the Lachin corridor.

In November 2021, with his mediation, the funeral of a soldier of the Armenian Armed Forces was transferred from Baku to Yerevan on a private flight. A month later, on December 4, he accompanied 10 soldiers who were thought to be missing and eventually returned to Armenia from Baku.

It was learned that on October 7, 2022, Rustam Muradov was appointed commander of the Eastern Military District.

One of the leaders of the special military operation in Ukraine. The commander of the grouping of Russian troops “Vostok”.

Lieutenant General (2020).

For the dedication, courage and courage shown in the performance of official duty, he was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation (2017), was awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, swords of the II degree (2021), III and IV degrees. ; Medals including Alexander Nevsky (2020), two Orders of Courage (1997, 2000), Order of Military Merit (2012), Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree with swords (1996).

The material has been prepared on the basis of information from RIA Novosti and from open sources.

* Terrorist organization banned in Russia