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Viktor Chirkov is a Russian politician and diplomat who served as the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the United States from 2008 to 2012. He was born in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1982.
Chirkov began his career in the Soviet Foreign Ministry in 1982, and served in various diplomatic posts in the United States, including as the Deputy Chief of Mission at the Russian Embassy in Washington, D.C. from 1997 to 2001. In 2008, he was appointed Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the United States, a post he held until 2012.
In 2012, Chirkov was appointed Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, and in 2013 he was appointed Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. He is currently the Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.
Viktor Chirkov is 61 years old as of 2021. He has a height of 5 feet 8 inches (173 cm) and a weight of 75 kg (165 lbs). He has black hair and brown eyes. His zodiac sign is Virgo. He is not dating anyone currently.
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Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union (now Almaty, Kazakhstan) |
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In March 2016, Russian media announced Chirkov's retirement due to health reasons. Vladimir Korolev, then commander of the Northern Fleet, was named as his successor.
In March 2014, as Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Chirkov also oversaw all naval operations with Aleksandr Vitko who was then commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet during Russia's annexation of the Crimean Peninsula in which both the Sevastopol Naval Base and Southern Naval Base were seized by Russian forces.
On 6 May 2012, President Dmitry Medvedev on his last day in office prior to the inauguration of Vladimir Putin appointed Chirkov to replace Vladimir Vysotskiy as the Russian Navy's Commander-in-Chief. In an interview with news agency RIA Novosti, Chirkov said:
Since 2007, he was the Chief of Staff/First Deputy Commander of the Baltic Fleet, and appointed Fleet Commander by the President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev on 8 September 2009.
In 2005-2007, he commanded the Primorskiy Mixed Forces Flotilla. For the next two years, he was chief of staff, first deputy commander of the Baltic Fleet, and became its commander in September 2009.
After graduating from the Military Academy of the General Staff in 2000, Chirkov served for five years as chief of staff, first deputy commander of Troops and Forces in the North-East on Kamchatka. In the first years of this assignment, he served under Vice-Admiral Konstantin Sidenko.
From 1990 to 1993, Chirkov commanded the Udaloy-class destroyer Admiral Spiridonov. He was deputy chief of staff for an ASW ship division, deputy division commander, and commander of an ASW ship division during 1993-1998. In 1997, he completed the Kuznetsov Naval Academy as a correspondence student.
In 1986-1987, Chirkov completed Higher Special Officers’ Classes in Leningrad, and became commander of the infamous Krivak-class frigate Storozhevoy. Under a mutinous crew, this Soviet Baltic Fleet unit had tried, unsuccessfully, to defect in 1975. Later it transferred to the Pacific Fleet.
Viktor Viktorovich Chirkov (Russian: Виктор Викторович Чирков ; born 8 September 1959, in Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR) is a Russian admiral and the former commander of the Baltic Fleet. On 6 May 2012, he was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, succeeding Vladimir Vysotsky, who had occupied the post for almost five years. He retired from his position due to health reasons in March 2016.
Chirkov is a surface warfare officer with Pacific Fleet roots. He was born on 8 September 1959 in Alma-Ata, capital of the former Kazakh SSR. In 1982, he graduated from the Pacific Higher Naval School in Vladivostok and became head of the mine-torpedo department on the Riga-class frigate Lun in the Pacific Fleet. He served as assistant commander of a corvette, then executive officer of the Kotlin-class destroyer Vozbuzhdennyy.
