Khomchenko, Yury Rodionovich

Born in s. Kladkovka, Nezhinsky district of Chernihiv region. He graduated from 10 classes of secondary school in 1951. He worked in agriculture, was the foreman of a field crop brigade. He was awarded the medal "For Valiant Labor during the Great Patriotic War" in 1946.

Honorary radio operator

Honorary Citizen of the Alekseevsky District, 2004

Army service

Called to the army, he studied at the school of junior radio specialists of the Armored and Mechanized Forces, transformed into the Gorky Military School of Communications in which he studied from 1951 to 1954. He graduated from the military school with honors with enrollment on the Hall of Fame of the school and the right to choose a duty station. In 1962−1967 study at the command and engineering academy of communications SM Budyonny. In 1974 he graduated from the Higher Academic Courses (VAK) of the Military Academy of the General Staff of the USSR Armed Forces. KE Voroshilov . He graduated from the external (1985-1986 Guards.) Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR in 1986.

He served as commander of the commander of a radio platoon in 1954-1956.

108 Guards mechanized regiment, the commander of the training radio pod 5 separate tank regiment 34 mech. Division ODVO.

1956-1959 communications commander of a tank battalion 86 tank regiment.

The commander of the training radio picket - the communications commander of the training tank battalion 86 MSD 1960-1962.

Commander of the radio speed 165 OBS 86 MSD 14A.

1962-1967 student of the command and engineering academy of communications named after SM Budyonny .

Chief of Staff of a separate communications battalion PKP ODVO 1967

1967-1968 Commander 1122 ORRB (R-404M) ODVO

Deputy Commander, Commander of the 15th Separate Army Communications Regiment 14A 1968–1974 Lt. Col. early 1968

Head of the communications troops 14A 1974-1975 Colonel early 1975

In 1975-1978 Head of the communications troops of the Odessa Military District. Major General.

Chief of communications troops Group of Soviet Forces in Germany . Head of the Communications Office of the Staff of the GSVG 1978-1983 Lieutenant General .

Chief of communications troops of the Ground Forces 1983-1987

Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the SV General-Lieutenant

• Lt. Col. early (1968)
• Early Colonel (1975)
• Major General of the Communications Forces (1977)
• Lieutenant-General of the Communications Forces (1978)

• Medal "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945" (1946)
• Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky 3rd Degree (1987)
• Order of the Red Star (1981)

• For service to the Fatherland 3 st and 2 st 1975, 1981

• For military valor 1 tbsp. 1987

• Order "Star" Afghanistan 2007

International Academy of Social Sciences

• Glory of the Nation (Gold Star) 2008

• Glory of the Nation (Silver Star) 2006

• Order of Merit 2001, 2007

National Committee of Public Awards

• Order of the Great Victory 2007

• Order of the Holy Prince Alexander Nevsky 2007

• Order of Peter the Great 1st degree 2008

• Order of Marshal Zhukov 2007

Parliamentary Center for Integrated Security of the Fatherland

• For Merit with swords 1st. 2008

• Labor Valor of Russia 2008

• Honorary Veteran 2002

• Order of Merit in the Communications Forces 2007

• In the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War, a ceremony was held to transfer the communications equipment to the museum of the 66th separate communications regiment of the Moscow Military District
• Gift from signalers

By order of the USSR Minister of Defense, the School of Radio Specialists BT and MV SA was subordinated to the head of the communications troops and reformed into the Gorky Military School of Communications with a three-year training period, which should now train specialists for all communications troops. In the fall of 1951, Colonel Fedor Yefimovich Omelchuk was appointed the head of the school. In October 1951, the school began its first academic year.