Viktor Nikolaevich Samsonov (russian: Виктор Николаевич Самсонов; born November 10, 1941 in Dukhovnitsky District), General of the Army. He was the acting

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of the

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in 1996. He was replaced by

Anatoly Kvashnin Anatoly Vasiliyevich Kvashnin (russian: Анатолий Васильевич Квашнин; 15 August 1946 – 7 January 2022) was a Russian military officer, who served as the Chief of the General Staff of Russian Armed Forces from 1997 to ...

. Previously in 1993 he was Chief of Staff at the Military Cooperation Headquarters of the

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. Born in 1941, an ethnic Russian. In the Armed Forces since 1960. After graduating from college he was sent to a Naval Infantry unit, and commanded a platoon and company. He graduated from the Far Eastern Higher Command School in 1964. Graduated from the

Frunze Military Academy The M. V. Frunze Military Academy (russian: Военная академия имени М. В. Фрунзе), or in full the Military Order of Lenin and the October Revolution, Red Banner, Order of Suvorov Academy in the name of M. V. Frunze (rus ...

in 1972 (as a class-mate of future Afghan war commander

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). Since 1972 he was a Chief of Staff of a motor rifle regiment and the Chief of Staff of a tank division in the

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. Then a few years he was chief of staff of a Combined Arms Army. After graduating from the Military Academy of the General Staff in 1981 he was commander of the 4th Army. In 1987 – 1990s – Chief of Staff of the

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, and at the same time in 1988 – 1990 years – the military commander in Yerevan. Participated in the localization efforts of Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict. In 1990 appointed commander of the

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. A member of the Communist Party from 1960 until the termination of its operations in August 1991. During the

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in August 1991, he was appointed military commander of the Leningrad State Emergency Committee, said of the subordination of the orders of the State Emergency Committee and ordered a state of emergency in Leningrad and the surrounding areas.

References

*Военная энциклопедия в 8 томах. Издат-во Министерства обороны РФ, 1994–2002, том 7. *Russian Wikipedia

External links

*Jane's Information Group
Colonel General Viktor Samsonov
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