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Soviet and Russian military leader and business figure (1942–2020) In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Ivanovich and the family name is Shaposhnikov.

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Yevgeny Shaposhnikov
Евгений Шапошников
Shaposhnikov in 1991

Commander-in-Chief of the CIS Armed Forces
In office 14 February 1992 – 26 September 1993
Preceded by	Post established
Succeeded by	Post abolished
Minister of Defence
In office 29 August 1991 – 14 February 1992
Premier	Ivan Silayev
Preceded by	Dmitry Yazov
Succeeded by	Post abolished

Personal details
Born	(1942-02-03)3 February 1942 Rostov Oblast, Soviet Union
Died	8 December 2020(2020-12-08) (aged 78) Moscow, Russia
Resting place	Troyekurovskoye Cemetery, Moscow
Nationality	Soviet, Russian
Other political affiliations	Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1963–1991)
Military service
Allegiance	Soviet Union (to 1991) Russia
Branch/service	Soviet Air Forces Russian Air Force
Years of service	1963–1993
Rank	Marshal of the aviation
Commands	16th Air Army Soviet Air Force
Battles/wars	Soviet–Afghan War

Marshal of Aviation Yevgeny Ivanovich Shaposhnikov (Russian: Евгений Иванович Шапошников; 3 February 1942 – 8 December 2020) was a Soviet Air Forces officer who served as the final Minister of Defense of the Soviet Union in 1991. He was also the Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Air Forces from 1990 to 1991 and was the Commonwealth of Independent States Joint Forces Commander-in-Chief from 1992 to 1993.

Early years

Shaposhnikov was born on a farm near Aksay in Rostov Oblast, Russia. He graduated from the Kharkov Higher Military Aviation School in 1963 and the Gagarin Air Force Academy in 1969.

Military career

Shaposhnikov joined the Soviet Air Force and rose through the ranks. From March 1985 to June 1987 he commanded the Air Forces of the Odesa Military District. In 1987–1989, Yevgeny Shaposhnikov was the air force commander of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany (16th Air Army?). In July 1990, he was appointed commander-in-chief of the Soviet Air Force.

Political career

Soviet Union

In August 1991 – February 1992, Yevgeny Shaposhnikov held the post of Minister of Defence of Soviet Union (and thus the last Soviet Defence Minister). Recognized the Belovezhsky agreement on the termination of the existence of the USSR immediately after its signing on 8 December 1991. On 21 December 1991, simultaneously with the accession of 9 republics to the Commonwealth of Independent States (all, except for Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine and the Baltic republics that previously left the USSR) a protocol was signed on the assignment of temporary command of the Armed Forces of the USSR to Shaposhnikov. Around the end of January 1992, the Ministry of Defense of the disintegrated USSR began to de facto call itself the main command of the CIS Armed Forces. In the Decree of the President of Russia of 4 January 1992, Marshal Shaposhnikov was mentioned as the head of the Ministry of Defense of the former USSR.

Commonwealth of Independent States/Russian Federation

Only on 14 February 1992 did the Council of CIS Heads of State officially appoint Shaposhnikov Commander-in-Chief of the Joint Armed Forces of the CIS, and only on March 20 of the same year, on the basis of the USSR Ministry of Defense, the General Command of the CIS Joint Armed Forces was officially created.

In June–September 1993, Yevgeny Shaposhnikov held the post of the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.

Business career

In January 1994, Shaposhnikov became a representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the main arms-exporting company Rosvooruzhenie. In November 1995 – March 1997 he was the CEO (General Director) of Aeroflot airline company. He has been employed as an adviser of the President of the Russian Federation on matters of aviation and space exploration since March 1997.

Death

Shaposhnikov died on 8 December 2020 in Moscow from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia. He was buried in Troyekurovskoye Cemetery on 11 December.

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(in Russian) Biography

Military offices
Preceded byAlexander Yefimov	Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Air Force 1990–1991	Succeeded byPyotr Deynekin As Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Air Force
Political offices
Preceded byDmitry Yazov	Minister of Defence of Soviet Union 1990–1992	Succeeded byPost Dissolved Boris Yeltsin as Acting Defense Minister of the Russian Federation
Preceded byYury Skokov	Secretary of the Security Council of Russia 1993	Succeeded byOleg Lobov

v t e Ministers of Defence of the Soviet Union
People's Commissars for Military and Naval Affairs (1917–1934)	Council (1917) Nikolai Podvoisky (1917–18) Leon Trotsky (1918–25) Mikhail Frunze (1925) Kliment Voroshilov (1925–34)
People's Commissars for Defence (1934–1946)	Kliment Voroshilov (1934–40) Semyon Timoshenko (1940–41) Joseph Stalin (1941–46)
People's Commissars for the Navy (1937–1946)	Pyotr Smirnov (1937–38) Mikhail Frinovsky (1938–39) Nikolai Kuznetsov (1939–46)
People's Commissar for the Armed Forces (1946)	Joseph Stalin
Ministers of the Armed Forces (1946–1950)	Joseph Stalin (1946–47) Nikolai Bulganin (1947–49) Aleksandr Vasilevsky (1949–50)
Minister of War (1950–1953)	Aleksandr Vasilevsky
Ministers of the Navy (1950–1953)	Ivan Yumashev (1950–51) Nikolai Kuznetsov (1951–53)
Ministers of Defence (1953–1992)	Nikolai Bulganin (1953–55) Georgy Zhukov (1955–57) Rodion Malinovsky (1957–67) Andrei Grechko (1967–76) Dmitry Ustinov (1976–84) Sergei Sokolov (1984–87) Dmitry Yazov (1987–91) Yevgeny Shaposhnikov (1991–92)

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