Sergey Vladimirovich Surovikin is a Russian army general who serves as head of the Coordinating Committee for Air Defence under the Council of Defence Ministers of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) since September 2023.
Official portrait, 2021
Surovikin at a graduation of officers at the Air Force Academy in Voronezh, 2019
Surovikin (left) with Minister of Defence Sergei Shoigu, Bashar al-Assad and Syrian Minister of Defence Ali Ayyoub in 2017
Surovikin (left) with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Sergey Shoigu and Valery Gerasimov in 2018
Joint CIS Air Defense System
Joint CIS Air Defense System is a unified system that comprises air defense units and elements of the former Soviet republics under control of the Coordination Committee on Air Defense of the Council of Ministers of Defense of the CIS. Currently there are 6 de facto members of JADS: Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan. 70% of all expenditures of the military budget of the Commonwealth of Independent States are directed to the improvement and development of this system.
Daryal early warning radar station in Pechora