Konstantin Alekseevich Kochetov (born March 17, 1932 , station Leo Tolstoy , Central Black Earth Region [1] ) - Soviet military leader , army general .
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| Date of Birth | March 17, 1932 (87 years) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of Birth | Lev Tolstoy , Central Black Earth Region , RSFSR , USSR | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Affiliation |  the USSR | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Type of army | infantry | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Years of service | 1950 - 1991 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Commanded | Southern Group of Forces Transcaucasian Military District Moscow Military District | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Retired | since 1991 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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From 1944 he studied at the Tambov Suvorov Military School .
Start of military service
After graduation from the Suvorov School in 1950, he was drafted into the Soviet Army . He graduated from the Lvov Infantry School named after N. A. Shchors in 1952. From 1952 he commanded a successively platoon and company in the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany . Since 1959 - Chief of Staff of the motorized rifle battalion in the Far Eastern Military District . Member of the CPSU .
In 1965 he graduated from the Military Academy named after MV Frunze . Since 1965, he was deputy commander, and since 1968, commander of a motorized rifle regiment in the North Caucasus Military District . Since 1970 - chief of staff of a motorized rifle division in the North Caucasus Military District .
In senior positions
In 1973 he graduated from the Military Academy of the General Staff . From 1973 he commanded the 24th Infantry Division (“Iron Division”) in the Carpathian Military District . Since 1975 - Commander of the 31st Army Corps in the Transcaucasian Military District . From June 1977 - Commander of the 7th Guards Army as part of the Transcaucasian Military District , Lieutenant-General (02/16/1979). From December 1979 - First Deputy Commander of the Trans-Baikal Military District .
In top command positions
From August 1982 - Commander of the Southern Group of Forces on the territory of Hungary , Colonel-General (12/16/1982). From August 1985 - Commander of the Transcaucasian Military District . From May 1988 - Commander of the Moscow Military District .
Since January 1989 - First Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR . While on a business trip to the Caucasus in April 1989 and learning about a mass demonstration in Tbilisi , he offered to the Minister of Defense of the USSR D.T. Yazov his candidacy to help the district command. Arrived in Tbilisi and organized the crowding out of the rally crowd from the center of the city, accompanied by human casualties (19 people were killed during the Tbilisi events . that of the 19 dead - 18 people died from being squeezed in the crowd and trampled by running people [3] ).
He was relieved of his post as First Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR by decree of the President of the USSR of September 13, 1991.
Deputy of the Council of the Union of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR from Chernivtsi region . People's Deputy of the USSR in 1989-1991.
In November 1991, was dismissed. He is a leading analyst at the Office of Inspectors General of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation [4] .
Awards
- Order of the Red Banner
- Order of the Red Star
- Order "For Service to the Motherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" , 2nd degree [5]
- Order "For Service to the Motherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" 3rd degree
- "Order of Honor (USSR)" [5]
- Medals of the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation
- Foreign Orders and Medals
Notes
- ↑ Now - Lipetsk region .
- ↑ http://sobchak.org/rus/docs/zakluchenie.htm
- ↑ Information Letter of the USSR Prosecutor General N. S. Trubin “On the Results of the Investigations of the Tbilisi Events of April 9, 1989”. The document was distributed to the people's deputies of the USSR and the RSFSR. Not published in the USSR, but widely quoted in the press and in interviews. Subsequently, it was repeatedly published in full, for example, in the book: The Ethnopolitical Situation in Georgia and the Abkhaz Question (1987 - early 1992). Essays. Documents. Compiled by G.P. Lezhava. - M.: CIMO. 1998
- ↑ Serve for the good of the Fatherland
- ↑ 1 2 Army General Kochetov Konstantin Alekseevich
Links
- Military Encyclopedia in 8 volumes. - M .: Military publishing house, 1994-2004. - T. 4.