Suvorov Military School
Hazheev was born in Kashtak, now a neighbourhood in the north of Chelyabinsk, in Russia. He is of Belarusian ethnicity. Hazheev is a career soldier, and studied first at the Suvorov Military School in Sverdlovsk, then at the Tashkent Higher All-Arms Command School, where he graduated in 1963, and finally at the Frunze Military Academy in Moscow.