This was followed by the command of the 2nd Guards Tank Army, part of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, and then the Belorussian Military District in 1985.

[1][2] He studied while working as head of a repair station on the construction of the Kumertau-Tyurgan railway, in the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.

[2] He trained initially at the Tashkent Higher Tank Command School, graduating in 1958, and was sent to serve with the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany.

[3] In February 1985 Shuralyov was appointed commander of the Belorussian Military District, being promoted to colonel-general on 29 April that year.

[2][4] In February 2020 Shuralyov attended the funeral of Dmitry Yazov, the last Marshal of the Soviet Union, which took place at the Federal Military Memorial Cemetery.

[5] Shuralyov was buried on 5 March in the Federal Military Memorial Cemetery in a funeral ceremony led by Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Ground Forces Oleg Salyukov and attended by around 500 people.