Nedelin, Vadim Serafimovich

Born May 4, 1928 in the city of Borisoglebsk, Voronezh region .

Military Education

• 1944 - Odessa Artillery Special School No. 16;
• 1949 - Odessa Artillery School named after N.V. Frunze .
• 1957 - Military Artillery Command
• 1970 - Military Academy of the General Staff .

Walkthrough

After graduating from the artillery school, he served in the artillery units of the Ground Forces in the Leningrad Military District . Since 1960 - in the Strategic Rocket Forces : division commander; missile regiment commander.

In 1967-1968 - deputy commander of the 33rd Guards Missile Division ( Mozyr ) ^[1] .

Commander of the 32nd Missile Division ( Posture ) ^[2] ; Deputy Commander of the 50th Missile Army for combat training; First Deputy Commander of the 50th Missile Army ( Smolensk ).

In 1975-1982 - the commander of the 43rd Missile Army ( Vinnitsa ).

In 1982-1991 - Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Missile Forces at military schools - Head of the military schools of the Missile Forces.

He died on July 15, 1993 in Moscow . He was buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery .

• Order of Lenin (1978);
• Order of the October Revolution (1985);
• Order of the Red Star (1974);
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1968);
• Order "For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" 3rd degree (1990);
• Medals .

Father - Nedelin Serafim Ivanovich (1903-1965) - Soviet scientist-economist, candidate of economic sciences , was a brother of the Commander-in-Chief of the Strategic Missile Forces, Hero of the Soviet Union , chief artillery marshal Nedelin Mitrofan Ivanovich (1902-1960) ^[3] .

• Military Encyclopedic Dictionary of Strategic Missile Forces / Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation; Ch. Ed .: I. D. Sergeev , V. N. Yakovlev , N. E. Solovtsov . - M .: Big Russian Encyclopedia , 1999 .-- 632 p. - 8500 copies. - ISBN 5-85270-315-X . . - S. 314.

• Website of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (Russian)
• Encyclopedia of Cosmonautics (inaccessible link) (Russian)