page_title: Vladimir Popovkin
hierarchical_section_title: Vladimir Popovkin
caption_attribution_description: English: Russian president Vladimir Putin with Space Forces Commander Vladimir Popovkin. Plesetsk Cosmodrome, 14 December 2006
context_page_description: Vladimir Aleksandrovich Popovkin was a Russian military person. He was the General Director of the Russian Federal Space Agency and former First Deputy Defense Minister of Russia.
  He was a General of the Army and former commander of the Russian Space Forces.
  Popovkin died of cancer on 18 June 2014 in a hospital in Israel, aged 56.
context_section_description: Vladimir Aleksandrovich Popovkin (Russian: Владимир Александрович Поповкин; 25 September 1957 – 18 June 2014) was a Russian military person. He was the General Director of the Russian Federal Space Agency and former First Deputy Defense Minister of Russia. 
  He was a General of the Army and former commander of the Russian Space Forces.
  Popovkin died of cancer on 18 June 2014 in a hospital in Israel, aged 56.
caption: Vladimir Putin (left) with Popovkin (right), 2006
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