Kabul Berdiyev has been appointed chief of the Civil Protection Institute under the Ministry of Emergency Situations, replacing Zafar Turaev, who returned to the post of deputy chief of the institute, the ministry reported.
Since September 2017, Kabul Berdiyev, 62, was in charge of the Academy of the Armed Forces. In 2008-2017 he served as the Defense Minister of Uzbekistan.