General Yuri Ivanov: biographical information, achievements and awards

Yuri Ivanov managed to make a brilliant career. This man was promoted to major general. He worked in the main intelligence agency of the Russian Federation, where he held a high position of deputy chief. General GRU Yuri Ivanov was killed in 2010, while the circumstances of his death are still very mysterious. In the press there was information that Yuri Evgenievich, while on vacation, accidentally drowned. His body was found near the coast of Turkey, in the Mediterranean Sea. This tragedy is still being discussed, since many do not believe in such an absurd and accidental death of the most experienced Major General of the GRU.

Yury Evgenevich Ivanov, biographical information

The future general of the GRU was born in the Saratov region, in the small town of Volsk. Yury Evgenievich Ivanov, whose biography begins on October 28, 1957, grew up as an ordinary child.
He graduated from the local secondary school, after which he was drafted into the army for service. Military affairs attracted the youth and after mobilization he decided to link his future destiny with this sphere.

Biography: Yuri Ivanov

The young man received his first higher education in the Kiev Higher Military Command School. The choice of the specialty has made all his future destiny: Yuri Ivanov entered the Intelligence Department. After the successful graduation from the school, the young military served in the Southern Group of Forces, which was located in the Far Eastern Military District. There he managed to gradually stay in all the command posts. This person at an early age began to make a fast career, having passed appointments from the platoon commander and to the commander of the military unit.

Rapid career

Yuri Ivanov has proved himself to be a fairly promising young specialist. But to advance the career ladder he needed a higher profile education. For this reason, in 1992 he graduated from the Higher Military Academy. Frunze and was sent to the service in the Siberian Military District.

A few years later, in 1997, he took part in a military conflict in Tajikistan. Yuri Ivanov was a member of the peacekeeping group of the Collective Peacekeeping Forces.

In 2000, he graduated from the Military Academy under the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces, which allowed him to head the reconnaissance department in the North Caucasian Military District.

Appointment in the GRU

Since 2006, this person held a leading position in the Main Directorate of the General Staff.

In 2010, he was transferred to Moscow. Yuri Ivanov, major general, took the post of deputy chief of the GRU.
During his career, he was awarded many state awards received for ensuring national security of the Russian Federation. Various sources report that General Yuri Ivanov is awarded only the warmest and sincere feedback from his staff. In intelligence, they speak of him as a professional of the highest class and a very decent person.

The news of the tragic death of the general

For the first time information about the death of Ivanov was reported by the official publication of the Ministry of Defense "Krasnaya Zvezda". On August 28, 2010, they posted an obituary on their official website, where they expressed their deep condolences on the death of the general.

The official version said dryly that Yury Evgenevich was on vacation and drowned during diving. The Turkish Coast Guard discovered a body of a dead man near its shores. It was attended by an Orthodox cross, and from this conclusions were drawn that the deceased belongs to the Slavic nationality. After the investigation, it became known that the discovered drowned man - the Russian General Ivanov Yuri. Moscow said goodbye to him on August 29, the former scout was buried with all the honors in the capital.

Conjectures about the mysterious death

At the time of his death Yuri Evgenevich was just 53 years old. This young man never complained of health and his imminent death did not bode well. Naturally, the statement about his death caused a lot of questions, and the most important: how the major-general drowned. In various information resources, information appeared that in fact Ivanov disappeared on August 6, and it happened in the Syrian city of Latakia. The GRU itself does not provide any comments regarding the death of its deputy chief. At the same time, the tragic death of Ivanov became a resonant event, which interested the journalists. They began to conduct investigations, and very many facts provided in official sources began to cause obvious doubts.

A strange holiday in Syria

It turned out that Ivanov actually disappeared in Syria on August 6, how exactly his search was being made - is unknown. According to the official version, he was there on vacation and, diving, dived, but did not come back. It happened in Latakia, which is located on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
The body was found in the Turkish province of Hatay, on the coast of Chevlik. After it was discovered by fishermen, the local police filed a request to the Russian consulate. But they answered that among the Russian tourists who arrived in Turkey, there are no missing persons.

Later it was found out that the search for the disappeared person is conducted by the neighboring consulate in Syria. According to them, in early August, a man named Ivanov disappeared, who actually arrived in Syria for a rest. But for some reason this Ivanov was listed as a Russian diplomat and arrived in their country on a diplomatic passport.

Conducting the next investigation, the staff of one of the Russian-language news agencies filed a request to Latakia on whether there is practicing diving for tourists. From the official answer it followed that diving services in this city are not provided.

Quite widely spread the version that in fact Ivanov arrived in Syria not at rest, but was there on the next job assignment. The fact is that in Syria, not far from Latakia, there is a well-known naval base in Tartus. It is used by the Russians as a maintenance center.

In addition, Latakia hosts another large naval base. In the past few years, it has been actively used by the Russian fleet, as well as Russian military intelligence as the main naval base. Its territory was used as a center where intelligence information is collected and exchanged, including Israel. Since such a base inspection was primarily unprofitable for the MOSSAD, many are making appropriate entries.

Probable participation of terrorists in the death of Ivanov

By the way, it is important to note that one version, which is put forward by journalists, is the murder of Ivanov by terrorists. A well-known fact is that for a long time the general was in charge of reconnaissance in the North Caucasus district. A fairly large part of his work took place on the territory of Chechnya. An indisputable fact is that on duty he had access to the most sensitive information. This was the reason why Ivanov was clearly unhappy with someone, and therefore he was eliminated, as soon as the convenient moment presented itself. In any case, since there are no official comments, all of the listed causes of death are only unconfirmed guesses.