Complex sentence: In 1980 he won first place in the competition of military bands of the Leningrad Military District and gained the attention of the chief conductor of the Moscow Military District Orchestra, Major General Nikolai Mikhailov, who brought him into the orchestra as a deputy conductor in 1984.
Split into simpler sentences: In 1980 he won first place in the competition of military bands of the Leningrad Military District. Khalilov gained the attention of the chief conductor of the Moscow Military District Orchestra, Major General, Nikolai Mikhailov, who brought him to the orchestra as a deputy conductor in 1984.