[1][2] He was initially posted to serve in various positions in the KGB's Eastern Border District, in the territory of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic.

[1] Here he spent the next 20 years, rising from the rank of lieutenant to colonel, and from the position of deputy commander of a border outpost, to head of a front-line detachment.

[1] He was a student there until 1988, and after graduating, he was appointed deputy chief of forces of the Transcaucasian Border District in August that year.

[1] He continued to hold this post through the period of the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991, but by 1992 the academy had become part of the newly independent Kazakhstan, and Lukashevich left to become head of the Russian Federation's Far Eastern Border District [ru].

[1][3] Having become a specialist in the field of geopolitics and the theory of command and control, he wrote more than 20 scientific works, including three monographs, two textbooks and a number of teaching aids.