RUMOD EW Commander - Major General

Unit: Electronic Warfare Unit, 2nd Guards Combined Arms Army, Central Military District

Cargo ID: #143

Full Name: Andrey Dmitrievich Simonov

Russian Name: Симонов Андрей Дмитриевич

Date of Birth: June 29, 1966

Place of Birth: Baranovka, Verkhnekamsky District, Kirov Region

Education: Tomsk Higher Military Command School of Communications (graduated 1987); Frunze Military Academy (graduated 2000)

Andrey Dmitrievich Simonov served in EW units as an operational duty officer, platoon commander, head of the command post, deputy battalion commander for operational work.

  • In 2000 he graduated from the Frunze Military Academy. After the Academy, he worked his way up from a senior officer of the SibVO electronic warfare service to the head of the EW service of the headquarters of the regional command "Vostok".
  • In 2010, he graduated from the Military Academy of the General Staff and was appointed to the position of Chief of the Electronic Warfare Service of the Headquarters of the Western Military District.
  • Since August 2014 — Deputy Chief of the EW Troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.


He was awarded nine medals of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, including the medal "For Military Valor" of the I degree

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"As a result of a powerful blow to the forward command post of the 2nd Army of the Russian occupiers in the Kharkiv region, Russian Major General Andrei Simonov was eliminated. According to sources close to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the general was destroyed as a result of a strike by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Izyum area."
Please accept my most sincere congratulations on your conferment of the well-deserved rank of Major General! You are doing serious and important work aimed at protecting our Motherland. Let your professional and life experience continue to contribute to the solution of important and complex tasks entrusted to you, June 6, 2016

Pictured here in 2017 with retired Colonel Gorbachev Yuri Emelyanovich.