Vladimir Popovkin

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Popovkin (; 25 September 1957 – 18 June 2014) was a Russian military personnel. 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 Petah Tikva, Israel, aged 56.Death announcement (Russian)

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