Biography

In 1982 Tenyuh graduated from the M.V. Frunze Higher Naval School, Leningrad. Tenyuh began his career as a torpedo officer.

1983 - 1991– commander of roadstead mine-sweeper, executive officer of sea-going mine-sweeper, commander of sea-going mine-sweeper, chief of armament and equipment stores department on a mine and anti-submarine armament base.

1991 – as a member of the Defense and State Security Commission of the Verkhovna Rada

Verkhovna Rada

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine is Ukraine's parliament. The Verkhovna Rada is a unicameral parliament composed of 450 deputies, which is presided over by a chairman...

 (Ukrainian parliament), he participated in the development of the bill on the creation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

1991-1995 – senior officer of maintenance of combat actions department of the Naval agency of Ministry of Defence of Ukraine

Ministry of Defence (Ukraine)

The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine was established on September 24, 1991, one month after Ukraine's declaration of independence from the Soviet Union. The ministry was in charge of reorganizing all Soviet forces on the Ukrainian terrain under its command...

, chief of department of command (management) directions of the Navy of the Main staff of the Armed forces of Ukraine, chief of department of directions of Main operational agency of General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces

General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces

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1994 - graduated from Foreign Language Institute of the USA Department of Defense, and in 1997 – faculty of preparation of officers of operational-strategic level of National Academy of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

1997 - 2005 - commander of surface ships brigade and commander of combined arms squadron of the Ukrainian Naval Forces.

2002 – commander of the annual activation of the joint multilateral naval cooperation Black Sea Force BLACKSEAFOR.

From beginning of November 2005 – deputy chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

With its decree #252/2006 dated from March 23, 2006 the President of Ukraine appointed Rear Admiral Igor Tenyuh to the position of Commander-in-Chief of the Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

On August 22, 2008, Tenyuh was promoted from Vice Admiral

Vice Admiral

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 to the rank of Admiral

Admiral

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For persistent and excellent service rear admiral Igor Tenyuh was awarded with orders, medals and departmental rewards.

Tenyuh was responsible for ordering Ukrainian naval vessels to block the entrance of the Russian Navy to the bay of Sevastopol

Sevastopol

Sevastopol is a city on rights of administrative division of Ukraine, located on the Black Sea coast of the Crimea peninsula. It has a population of 342,451 . Sevastopol is the second largest port in Ukraine, after the Port of Odessa....

, in response to the 2008 South Ossetia War

2008 South Ossetia war

The 2008 South Ossetia War or Russo-Georgian War was an armed conflict in August 2008 between Georgia on one side, and Russia and separatist governments of South Ossetia and Abkhazia on the other....

. No ships were, in fact, blocked.

On March 19, 2010, President Viktor Yanukovich dismissed Tenyuh from his position.

External links

• Biography (In Ukrainian)