Anatoly Perminov graduated in 1967 from a military college with a degree in mechanical engineering, specializing in rocket engines. In 1976, he earned an advanced degree in Moscow from the Military Academy. In 1991 he again earned an advanced degree in Moscow from the Military Academy, after which he was appointed to the head of the Russian Department of Defense research test site. Here he organized the launch of hundreds of satellites and ICBMs. In August 1993 he became the head of operations for missile weapons in the Strategic Missile Forces. He was then the director of Roscosmos from March 2004 to 2011.[1]
Perminov has a PhD in engineering, and has authored more than 70 scientific papers and articles on space exploration. He is a professor of the Moscow Aviation Institute, where he chairs the institute's Operations of Launch Vehicles and Spacecraft department.[3]
On 29 April 2011, Perminov was replaced with Vladimir Popovkin as the director of Roscosmos. The 65-year-old Perminov was over the legal limit for state officials, and had received some criticism after a failed GLONASS launch.[4]
NASA administrator Charles Bolden meets Anatoly Perminov at Mission Control Centre Moscow in Korolyov, Russia.
Personal life
Perminov is married. His wife is a teacher and they have a son.[3]
Gratitude of the President of Russia (2005) - for services in the development of space and many years of honest work
Order Dostyk, 2nd class (Kazakhstan, 7 December 2004) - for his significant contribution to the development of friendship and cooperation between the peoples of Kazakhstan and Russia
^"О присвоении классных чинов государственной гражданской службы Российской Федерации федеральным государственным гражданским служащим Федерального космического агентства". Decree No. 1415 of 29 September 2008 (in Russian). President of Russia.
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