Colonel Andrey Marushkin has been appointed new commander of the Russian military base deployed in Tajikistan, the press center of the Central Military District of the Russian Federation reported on November 28, 2022.
Marushkin reportedly successively rose from the platoon commander to the commander of one of the motorized rifle formations of the Central Military District.
According to the Central Military District press center, Colonel Marushkin is recipient of numerous state and departmental awards, including the Order of Alexander Nevsky and the Order of Courage.
The Russian military base deployed in Tajikistan is subordinate to the Central Military District. It is Russia's largest non-naval military facility outside the country.
It was officially opened in Tajikistan in 2004 under a previous agreement, which was signed in 1993, and hosts Russia’s largest military contingent deployed abroad.
A total of some 7,000 Russian troops are now stationed at two military facilities collectively known as the 201st military base – in Dushanbe and Bokhtar (formerly Qurghon Teppa), some 100 kilometers from Dushanbe.
