Andrey Ivanayev was born on 19 January 1972 in Uralsk, Kazakh SSR (present-day
Oral, Kazakhstan). Since joining the military service in 1988, he entered the Ulyanovsk Guards Higher Tank Command School named after V.I. Lenin. In connection with the disbandment of the school in 1991, he continued his studies in the 9th company of the Chelyabinsk Higher Tank Command School named after the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution, which he successfully graduated in 1992. He served from the commander of a tank platoon of a tank battalion of the 409th motorized rifle regiment of the
147th Motor Rifle Division (Akhalkalaki) of the Group of Russian Forces of the Transcaucasus (GRVZ) (former
Transcaucasian Military District) to the commander of a tank battalion of the
27th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade named for the 60th Anniversary of the USSR of the
Western Military District. After graduating from the Combined Arms Academy in 2001, he was appointed the deputy commander of the 1st Guards Motorized Rifle Sevastopol Regiment of the 2nd Guards Motorized Rifle Taman Division named after M.I. Kalinina. From 2006 to 2008, he was the commander of the 1st Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment. In 2008, he was promoted to the deputy commander of the 2nd Guards Motorized Rifle Taman Division. In 2009, he was promoted to the commander of the 5th Guards Separate Motorized Rifle Taman Brigade. On 23 February 2011, by decree of the president of Russia, Ivanayev was promoted to major general. and Defence Minister
Anatoly Serdyukov, 5 May 2010 In 2013, he graduated with honors from the
Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia. From 2013 to 2014, he was the head of the
392nd District Training Centre of the Pacific of the Eastern Military District. In 2015, he was the deputy commander, then promoted in 2017, as the chief of staff – first deputy commander of the 36th Combined Arms Army of the Eastern Military District. At the same time of that same year, he was the commander of the Euphrates group in Syria. By decree of the president of Russia in May 2018, Ivanyev had been appointed commander of the 20th Guards Combined Arms Army of the Western Military District. On 15 May, in Voronezh, the chief of staff of the Western Military District, Lieutenant General
Viktor Astapov, presented Major General Ivanayev with a personal standard and introduced him to the personnel of the formation. On 11 June 2019, by decree of the president of the Russia 11 June 2019, he was promoted to lieutenant general. among other officers in Voronezh, 29 June 2019 In November 2024, Ivanayev was appointed as commander of
Eastern Military District. He was promoted to the rank of colonel general on 21 February 2025. ==Sanctions==