High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! General of the Army Valentin Vladimirovich Korabelnikov is a Russian general, best known for being director of the GRU military intelligence agency for 12 years. Korabelnikov attended the Minsk Higher Engineering Anti-Aircraft Rocket School of Air Defense, from which he graduated in 1969, and subsequently graduated from the Frunze Military Academy in 1974 and the General Staff Academy in 1988.