Anatoly Gritsenko

In January 1996, Gritsenko became the head of the Department of Military Security and Military Construction of the National Research Center for Defense Technologies and Military Security of Ukraine. In September 1997, he took the position of head of the analytical service of the apparatus of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine.In October 1999, after a serious and prolonged illness, the head of Gritsenko, Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Alexander Razumkov, who had held his position since June 1997, died. After the death of the chief, almost the entire Razumkov team moved from the National Security and Defense Council to the non-governmental organization he founded - the Ukrainian Center for Economic and Political Studies. In December 1999, with the rank of colonel, Gritsenko was transferred to the reserve.

I took the military oath again. From November 1992 to August 1994, Gritsenko served as head of the problem-analytical department of the Research Center of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. At the same time, from March 1993 to May 1994, he was in the United States: in 1993 he took a course at the Military Institute of Foreign Languages ​​of the US Department of Defense, and in 1994 - a course at the operational-strategic faculty of the US Air Force Academy. Returning to his homeland, in 1995 Gritsenko completed an internship at the Academy of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

From June 1979 to November 1981, Gritsenko served in military unit No. 19109 in the city of Akhtyrka, Sumy Region, Ukrainian SSR, as head of the aviation equipment maintenance group of the third aviation squadron. Subordinate to officer Gritsenko were a group technician, two senior mechanics and several conscripts.

Since December 1981, Gritsenko studied at the postgraduate course of the Kiev Higher Military Aviation Engineering School of the USSR Armed Forces. In October 1984, he defended himself, having received the degree of candidate of technical sciences, and began to serve as a teacher at a military school.

Anatoly Gritsenko was born on October 25, 1957 in the village of Bogachovka, Zvenigorod district, Cherkasy region, Ukrainian SSR. Until the eighth grade, inclusive, he studied at secondary school No. 6 in the city of Vatutino, Zvenigorod district, and then entered the Kiev Suvorov Military School, which he graduated in 1974 with a gold medal and entered the Kiev Higher Military Aviation Engineering School. He graduated in 1979 with honors, having received the qualification of a military electrical engineer.

Anatoly Stepanovich Gritsenko (Ukrainian Anatoliy Stepanovich Gritsenko; born October 25, 1957, Bogachovka, Cherkasy region) - Soviet and Ukrainian soldier, Ukrainian politician, deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine from the Our Ukraine - People's Self-Defense bloc (2007-2012) and VO "Batkivshchyna" (2012-2014), Minister of Defense of Ukraine (in three cabinets in a row - Yulia Tymoshenko, Yuriy Yekhanurov and Viktor Yanukovych, 2005-2007), leader of the "Civic Position" party, presidential candidate in Ukraine in 2010, 2014 and 2019 years.