Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has dismissed Colonel Sergey Seliverstov, deputy head of the Olympic Games 2014 Center of the Russian Interior Ministry and Russian Hero, Yuga.ru reports.
Sergey Seliverstov became a Russian Hero in 1993.
Sergey Seliverstov was born in Moscow on February 28, 1956. He served in the Soviet Ministry of the Interior from 1978. He was a road police officer and an inspector of the Dolgoprudnensky Police Station since 1979. He served in Afghanistan in 1984-1986 as a police officer. He became a senior crime investigator for group and organized crimes.
Major Seliverstov became the head of the first Russian Special Police Force in Moscow in 1988. He became deputy head of a SWAT group in February 1993.
He graduated from the Academy of the Russian Ministry of Interior Affairs in 1994. Seliverstov rescued hostages at Mineralniye Vody in 1994 and was wounded.
Colonel Seliverstov resigned in 1995. He worked at the Russian Customs Committee.
The president appointed Seliverstov as the deputy head of Olympic Games 2014 Center of Russian Interior Ministry on April 17, 2009. He is also the head of the Fund of Russian Heroes and Disabled Veterans.
He was awarded the Hero of Russian Federation on October 7, 1993. He was also awarded the Order of the Red Star for courage and the Order of the Afghan Democratic Republic for courage.
