Sergey Vladimirovich Goryachev (; 22 October 1970 – 12 June 2023) was a Russian military officer. He served as commander of the

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and as chief of staff of the

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. In 2022, he was reassigned from Tajikistan to serve in the

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, and was later killed during the

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Biography

Sergei Goryachev was born on 22 October 1970, in the city of Ozherelye in

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in the

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.Горячев Сергей Владимирович
/ref> In 1994, he graduated from the

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and graduated from the

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in 2008. Originally the commander of a reconnaissance platoon, Goryachev subsequently served as an assistant chief of reconnaissance of a regiment and later served as deputy commander of a reconnaissance company, a reconnaissance company commander and a parachute battalion commander.В Таджикистане сменился командир российской военной базы
/ref> From 2011 to 2013, he was deputy commander of a separate motorized rifle brigade of the combined arms army of the

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, one of Russia's operational commands. In March 2013, he was appointed head of the

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. Since 14 November 2018 (met personnel on 21 November 2018), he was made commander of the

in Tajikistan, awarding the tankers of the 201st Russian military base with departmental medals. In 2022, Goryachev was replaced as the 201st Base by Colonel Evgeny Kovylin and served in the

. Over the course of the invasion and subsequent war, Goryachev was the commander of the 5th Separate Tank Brigade, and was promoted to Army Chief of Staff. A posting on the Telegram messaging service reported that Goryachev and several other senior officers had been killed on 12 June 2023 in an attack, reportedly by a Storm Shadow missile launched by the

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on positions of the

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in Ukraine's

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. On 16 June 2023, the

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assessed that reporting on Goryachev's death was almost certainly accurate and that it is possible that he was acting as an Army commander at the time of his death.

Awards

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Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" The Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" () is a state decoration of the Russian Federation. It was instituted on 2 March 1994 by Presidential Decree 442. Until the re-establishment of the Order of St. Andrew in 1998, it was the highest order of ...

References

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Biography

Awards

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