[1] Kurachenko was the chief of the General Staff - First Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation from 2015 to 2018.

In 1983, he graduated from the Krasnoyarsk Higher Command School of Air Defense Radio Electronics.

[4] In 1998 - the Air Defense Military Academy named after Marshal of the Soviet Union G.K. Zhukov.

[8] Between December 2013 to July 2015, he was the Chief of Staff - First Deputy Commander of the Aerospace Defense Forces.

394 dated 1 August 2015, he was appointed Chief of the General Staff - First Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Aerospace Forces.