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Vladimir Aleksandrovich Popovkin
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![]() Vladimir Putin (left) with Popovkin (right), 2006
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Native name |
Владимир Александрович Поповкин
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Born | Dushanbe, Soviet Union |
25 September 1957
Died | 18 June 2014 Israel |
(aged 56)
Allegiance | ![]() |
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Space Forces |
Years of service | 1975–2009 |
Rank | General of the Army |
Commands held | Space Forces |
Awards | Order of Merit for the Fatherland, Order of Military Merit... |
Other work | Director General of Roscosmos |
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Popovkin (Russian: Владимир Александрович Поповкин; 25 September 1957 – 18 June 2014) was a Russian military person. He was the General Director of the Russian Federal Space Agency and former First Deputy Defense Minister of Russia.
He was a General of the Army and former commander of the Russian Space Forces.
Popovkin died of cancer on 18 June 2014 in a hospital in Israel, aged 56.

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