Oleg Ostapenko

Oleg Nikolayevich Ostapenko (Russian Олег Николаевич Остапенко; May 3, 1957 in Pokoschitschi in Chernihiv, Ukrainian SSR ) is a Lieutenant General in the Russian armed forces.

1979 made ​​Ostapenko graduated from the Military Academy " Felix Dzerzhinsky " missile forces, one of the military academies of the Soviet Union. He had then held various positions at the Strategic Missile Force Ten years. In 1992, he put down a further examination at a military academy. From 1992 he was then a further ten years in leadership positions in the missile control center, most recently in Plesetsk. Between 2002 and 2008 he was promoted on the same field of activity several times. From 2008 to 2011 Ostapenko, commander of the Russian Space Forces, in November 2011, he was commander of the newly formed Russian Space Defense Forces.

In November 2012 Ostapenko was Russia's deputy defense minister, in October 2013, he was appointed head of the Russian space agency Roskosmos.