Anatoly Vasiliyevich Kvashnin was a Russian military officer, who served as the Chief of the General Staff of Russian Armed Forces from 1997 to 2004, when he was dismissed by President Vladimir Putin. In the period 2004–2010, he was the Plenipotentiary Envoy of the President of Russia to the Siberian Federal District.
The 392nd Hero of the Soviet Union Marshal of the Soviet Union V. I. Petrov Pacific Red Banner Order of Kutuzov District Training Center is a training formation of the Russian Ground Forces. It is located at Knyaze-Volkonskoye in the Khabarovsk area.
Colonel General Alexander Alexandrovich Zhuravlyov is a Russian Ground Forces officer who has commanded the military force in Syria during the Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War and served as the commander of the Western Military District from November 2018 to June 2022. After returning from Syria, he became the Deputy Chief of the General Staff before being appointed commander of the Eastern Military District in November 2017. He was also awarded the title Hero of the Russian Federation in 2016 by a directive of the President. Currently, Western nations have identified him as a war criminal in Ukraine, and have imposed sanctions on him.
The Order of the Red Banner Eastern Military District is a military district of Russia.
Valery Vasilyevich Gerasimov is a Russian army general serving as the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces and First Deputy Minister of Defence.
Sergey Vladimirovich Surovikin is a Russian army general who serves as head of the Coordinating Committee for Air Defence under the Council of Defence Ministers of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) since September 2023.
Alexey Vasilievich Naumets is a Russian Airborne Troops major general. He served with the airborne troops from 1986 and fought in the Second Chechen War and Russo-Georgian War. Naumets was severely injured in a car accident with Russian Airborne Troops commander Vladimir Shamanov in October 2010 while acting commander of the 106th Guards Airborne Division. In February 2013, he was appointed commander of the 76th Guards Air Assault Division at Pskov. He was promoted to major general in June 2014. Naumets was placed on the European Union sanctions list in September 2014 for his command of the 76th Guards Air Assault Division in Crimea.
Andrey Nikolaevich Serdyukov is a Russian Armed Forces colonel general and commander of the Russian Airborne Forces from 2016 to 2022.
Yuri Viktorovich Kuznetsov was a Soviet and Russian military officer who held a number of posts in the Soviet and later Russian Armed Forces, reaching the rank of general-major. He served during the Soviet–Afghan War, receiving the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
Rustam Usmanovich Muradov is a Russian military officer, serving as a Colonel General in the Russian Armed Forces. He was the Commander of the Eastern Military District from 5 October 2022 to 6 April 2023. He was the Deputy Commander of the Southern Military District since December 2018 until October 2022. He was awarded the title Hero of the Russian Federation in 2017.
Gennady Valeryevich Zhidko was a colonel general of the Russian Armed Forces. He was awarded the title Hero of the Russian Federation in 2017 for his service as chief of staff of Russian forces deployed to Syria. Following this assignment, Zhidko commanded the Eastern Military District and headed the Main Military-Political Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces.
Aleksandr Pavlovich Lapin is a Russian army officer and commander of the Leningrad Military District from 16 May 2024. He was promoted to the rank of colonel general in 2019.
Colonel General Anatoly Alekseyevich Sidorov, is an officer of the Russian Army, and the current Chief of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization since November 2015.
Aleksandr Yuryevich Chaiko is a Russian army officer and alleged war criminal who was formerly the commander of the Eastern Military District from 12 November 2021 until he was replaced with Rustam Muradov on October 7, 2022. He was awarded the title Hero of the Russian Federation in 2020, and is a colonel general as of 2021.
Pavel Anatolyevich Popov, is a retired Russian army officer who was the Deputy Minister of Defense between 7 November 2013 and 17 June 2024. He holds the rank of General of the Reserve Army.
Andrey Nikolayevich Mordvichev is a Russian colonel general who is the commander of the Central Military District and the Center Grouping of Forces in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. He was awarded the title Hero of the Russian Federation in 2024.
Yakov Vladimirovich Rezantsev is a Russian lieutenant general. He commands the 49th Army of the Southern Military District.
A series of military engagements have taken place in and around the town of Vuhledar in western Donetsk Oblast over the course of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Ukrainian commanders have described the clashes as "the largest tank battle" of the Russo-Ukrainian War to date.
Mikhail Yuryevich Teplinsky 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.
Aleksandr Vasilyevich Belousov is a Russian general.
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