[1] He began his military career in 1998, joining the Russian Ground Forces, and graduated from the Volsk Higher School of Logistics.

[2] In 2011, he was appointed Deputy Head of the Resource Support Department in the Ministry of Defence.

He was named Deputy Commander of the Forces of the Southern Military District for Material and Technical Supply in 2018.

[1] On 30 April 2023, Western media sources reported that Kuzmenkov had been appointed deputy minister of defence for logistics, replacing Colonel General Mikhail Mizintsev.

[4] The European Union sanctioned Kuzmenkov on 21 July 2022 for his role in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.