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Commander Of The Russian Airborne Forces
The Commander of the Russian Airborne Forces () is a general officer position that is tasked with leading the Russian Airborne Forces. The office is part of the Airborne Forces Command and reports to the Chief of the General Staff. History On 4 September 1941 the Directorate of the Commander of the Airborne Forces (VDV) of the Red Army was established. All of the Soviet airborne corps were transferred from the front commanders of the Red Army to be subordinated to the new organization, led by the Commander of the Airborne Forces. In October 1944 it was transferred from the Red Army to the Soviet Air Forces. In 1946 the VDV was placed under the direct command of the Ministry of Defense, then became part of the Soviet Ground Forces in 1956, before once again being made a separate combat arm in 1964. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the modern Russian Airborne Forces were officially established on 7 May 1992 by presidential decree No. 466. In 1998 the Directorate of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Teplinsky
Mikhail Yuryevich Teplinsky (; ; born 9 January 1969) is a Russian colonel general born in Soviet Ukraine who has served as commander of the Russian Airborne Forces since June 2022. He was awarded the title Hero of the Russian Federation in 1995. Biography Mikhail Teplinsky was born in Mospyne, in what was then the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, in the Soviet Union, on 9 January 1969. In 1987 he entered and in 1991 graduated from the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School. He served in the 106th Guards Airborne Division stationed in Tula. He commanded an airborne reconnaissance platoon and a reconnaissance company of the 137th Guards Airborne Regiment. From 1992 to 1993, he took part in the Transnistria War. From December 1994 to March 1995 he participated in the First Chechen War. He distinguished himself in battles while crossing the Sunzha River. During the period of hostilities, senior lieutenant Teplinsky had about 30 destroyed militants on his personal combat accou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Kazankin
Alexander Fyodorovich Kazankin (; 15 April 1900 – 20 March 1955) was a Red Army Lieutenant general who commanded the Soviet airborne. He fought in the Russian Civil War and graduated from the Frunze Military Academy in 1934. Kazankin led the 4th Airborne Corps (Soviet Union), 4th Airborne Corps during the Vyazma airborne operation. He later commanded the 1st Guards Airborne Division, 16th Guards Airborne Division, 12th Guards Rifle Corps and 39th Guards Rifle Corps. Kazankin became the Soviet airborne commander in October 1947, but was demoted to deputy commander in December 1948. After briefly becoming airborne forces commander again between January and March 1950, Kazankin successively became inspector general of the airborne forces and then deputy airborne forces inspector general before his death on 20 March 1955. Early life Kazankin was born on 15 April 1900 in Buinsk, Republic of Tatarstan, Buinsk, Tatarstan. His father was a tailor. He studied at an ecclesiastical paroch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolai Ignatov (general)
Nikolai Ivanovich Ignatov (, born 13 May 1956) is a retired Russian Airborne Forces lieutenant general who briefly served as the acting Commander of the Russian Airborne Forces in May 2009. He was the Chief of Staff and First Deputy Commander of the Airborne Forces from 2008 to 2019 and the Deputy Commander of the Airborne Forces from 2005 to 2008. He was awarded the title Hero of the Russian Federation in 1993 during the events of the Russian constitutional crisis. Early life and education Ignatov was born on 13 May 1956 in , Tula Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. He was drafted into the Soviet military in 1974, serving until 1976 in the 337th Parachute Regiment of the 104th Guards Airborne Division in the Azerbaijan SSR. From 1976 to 1980 he attended the Ryazan Guards Higher Airborne Command School. Military career After commissioning as an officer of the Soviet Airborne Forces, from 1980 to 1985 he served at the Ryazan School as a training platoon and company commander. He th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valery Yevtukhovich
Valery Yevgenyevich Yevtukhovich (; born 17 April 1954) is a Russian Airborne Forces lieutenant general who was commander of the Airborne Forces from 2007 to 2009, and was Chief of Staff and First Deputy Commander from 2005 to 2007. Over the course of his career he held positions at nearly every level of command within the Airborne Forces, and was deployed in the conflicts in Afghanistan and former Yugoslavia. Early life and education Yevtukhovich was born on 17 April 1954 in Vyazma, Smolensk Oblast, Soviet Union. He graduated from the Ryazan Guards Higher Airborne Command School of the Soviet Airborne Forces (VDV) in 1975. Military career Between 1975 and 1979, he was a platoon and then company commander with the 350th Parachute Regiment. From 1979 to 1981, he was deployed to Afghanistan during the Soviet-Afghan War, and held the position of battalion chief of staff and deputy commander, within the same regiment. In 1981, he was briefly a battalion chief of staff in the 234th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Kolmakov
Alexander Petrovich Kolmakov (, born 31 July 1955) is a retired Russian Airborne Forces colonel general who served as the commander of the Airborne Forces from 2003 to 2007. He was also the First Deputy Minister of Defense from 2007 to 2010. Early life and education Alexander Kolmakov was born on 31 July 1955 in Kaliningrad (modern-day Korolyov, Moscow Oblast), in the Russian SFSR of the Soviet Union. He attended the Ussuriysk Suvorov Military School in Ussuriysk, Primorsky Krai, and went on to graduate from the Ryazan Guards Higher Airborne Command School in 1976. His later military education included the Frunze Military Academy, graduating in 1985, and the General Staff Academy in 1995. Military career After being commissioned in the Soviet Airborne Forces (VDV) his first post was in the 357th Guards Parachute Regiment of the 103rd Guards Airborne Division, stationed in Vitebsk, Byelorussian SSR. He commanded a reconnaissance platoon and an airborne training company before b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgy Shpak
Georgy Ivanovich Shpak (; born 8 September 1943) is a retired Russian Airborne Forces colonel general. He finished his military career as the commander of the Russian Airborne Forces from 1996 to 2003, and afterwards he was the governor of Ryazan Oblast, Russia from 2004 to 2008. Biography Early life Born September 8, 1943, in Osipovichi, Mogilev region USSR to Ivan Antonovich, who worked the railroad during his lifetime, and Anna Akimovna, who worked as an accountant. He enrolled and graduated from the Minsk Railway School majoring in locomotive engineering, locksmithing and as an electrician for locomotives. Military career Shpak served as a soldier for six months in the 137th Guards Airborne Regiment in Ryazan, then entered the Ryazan Guards Higher Airborne Command School, Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School, from which he graduated with honors in 1966 and was appointed commander of the cadet platoon. In 1970 he became a company commander of cadets at the school, and i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yevgeny Podkolzin
Yevgeny Nikolayevich Podkolzin (18 April 1936–19 June 2003) was a Soviet and Russian colonel general who commanded the Soviet and Russian Airborne Forces from 1991 to 1996. Biography Yevgeny Nikolayevich Podkolzin was born on 18 April 1936 in the settlement of Lepsinsk in the Kazakh SSR. He graduated from the Alma-Ata Airborne School in 1958, and was posted to the 328th Guards Airborne Regiment as a platoon commander. Between 1963 and 1967, Podkolzin commanded the transport and supply company and the separate reconnaissance company of the 104th Guards Airborne Division. Promoted to command a battalion of the 80th Guards Airborne Regiment in 1968, he was accepted to the Frunze Military Academy in 1970. Upon graduation in 1973, Podkolzin was appointed commander of the 331st Guards Airborne Regiment. He rose to deputy commander of the 106th Guards Airborne Division in 1974 and division commander in 1976. Accepted to the Military Academy of the General Staff in 1980, Podkolzin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pavel Grachev
Pavel Sergeyevich Grachev (; 1 January 1948 – 23 September 2012), sometimes transliterated as Grachov or Grachyov, was a Russian Army General and the Defence Minister of the Russian Federation from 1992 to 1996; in 1988 he was awarded Hero of the Soviet Union gold star. As Defence Minister, Grachev gained notoriety because of his military incompetence displayed during the First Chechen War and the persistent allegations of involvement in enormous corruption scandals. Life and career In the Soviet Union Grachev, born in 1948 in Tula Oblast, RSFSR, joined the Soviet Army's airborne troops in 1965 and finished the Ryazan Guards Higher Airborne Command School. In 1972, he joined the Soviet Communist Party. After commanding parachute platoons, companies and battalions in the 1970s, he attended the Frunze Military Academy and the General Staff Academy, graduating in 1981. During the Soviet–Afghan War, Grachev commanded the 345th Independent Guards Airborne Regiment from 198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladislav Achalov
Vladislav Alekseyevich Achalov (; 19 November 1945 – 23 June 2011) was a Soviet general, politician and public figure. Achalov served as the 12th commander of the Soviet Airborne Forces and the deputy minister of defence (1990–1991). Biography Early life and military career Achalov was born on November 13, 1945, in the village of Atamash, Atninsky District, in the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Upon deciding to join the army, he attended the Kazan Tank School of the Red Army, from which he graduated in 1966. He started his career in the army as a commander of a platoon of tanks, and later he became the commander of a company of tanks. In 1973 he graduated from the Academy of Armoured Forces but transferred to the Airborne Forces in 1974, becoming commander of an artillery regiment. In 1975–77 he was a commander of an airborne regiment and later (1977–78) vice-commander of 98th Guards Airborne Division. From 1978 to 1982 he was commander of the 7th Gu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolai Vasilyevich Kalinin
Nikolai Vasilyevich Kalinin (Russian: Николай Васильевич Калинин; 10 March 1937 – 7 March 2008) was a Red Army Colonel general. He commanded the Soviet airborne from August 1987 to January 1989, after which Kalinin became the commander of the Moscow Military District. In August 1991, he supported the coup d'état attempt and was relieved of command after the coup failed. After retiring in 1993, Kalinin died on 7 March 2008. Early life Kalinin was born on 10 March 1937 in Malye Kurashki village in the Lyskovsky District of Gorky Oblast. Military service In 1958, Kalinin graduated from the Leningrad Infantry School. He served as a platoon and company commander. In 1968, he graduated from the Frunze Military Academy. From 1968 to 1969, Kalinin was a battalion commander in the 111th Guards Airborne Regiment. In 1970, he became chief of staff of the regiment, and its commander in 1972. In the same year, he transferred to become deputy commander of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dmitri Sukhorukov
Dmitri Semyonovich Sukhorukov (; 2 November 1922 – 8 July 2003) was a Red Army General of the army who commanded the Soviet airborne between 1979 and 1987, during the Soviet–Afghan War. Sukhorukov fought as company commander in the 104th Guards Rifle Division during World War II and served in the 7th Guards Airborne Division postwar. In September 1962, he became the commander of the 98th Guards Airborne Division. He commanded the 2nd Army Corps from July 1968. After graduating from the Military Academy of the General Staff, Sukhorukov commanded the Central Group of Forces in November 1976. From January 1979 to July 1987, he was the commander of the Soviet airborne, overseeing its operations in Afghanistan. In July 1987, he became the deputy defence minister for personnel and in 1990 was in the Group of Inspectors General. After retiring in 1992, Sukhorokov died on 8 July 2003. Early life Sukhorukov was born on 2 November 1922 to a peasant family in Bely Kolodez village in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Tutarinov
Ivan Vasilyevich Tutarinov (Russian: Иван Васильевич Тутаринов; 19 June 1904 – 19 June 1978) was a Red Army colonel general who commanded the Soviet airborne from 1959 to 1961. Tutarinov fought in World War II as the commander of the 12th Kuban Cossack Cavalry Division before being wounded in July 1944. Early life Tutarinov was born on 19 June 1904 in the village of Krasny Yar in the Astrakhan Governorate. He was an Astrakhan Cossack. Before joining the Red Army in September 1923, Tutarinov worked in the local Cheka, the local Politburo, the Fisheries Trust and the Komsomol district committees. Interwar In the Red Army, he was assigned to the 3rd Samara Cavalry School. When that was disbanded in September 1924, Tutarinov was reassigned to the 2nd Borisoglebsk-Leningrad Cavalry School. After graduating in September 1926, he was posted to the 63rd Cavalry Regiment of the 1st Special Cavalry Brigade in Moscow. In this regiment, he became a platoon comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
