Stefanovsky, Gennady Alexandrovich

Born March 15, 1936 in the village of Monastyrische, Chernihiv district, Primorsky Territory .

In 1954 he graduated from high school.

In September 1954 he entered the 1st Moscow Military Aviation Radio Engineering School of the Air Force .

Since October 1957, after graduating from college, he was left in it as the commander of a cadet platoon.

Since May 1958, the secretary of the Komsomol organization of the battalion, and since October 1959, the assistant to the chief of the political department for Komsomol work of the Tambov Military Aviation Radio Engineering School of the Air Force .

Since December 1960, the assistant to the chief of the political department for the Komsomol work of the MBO fighter aviation division.

Since October 1962, a senior instructor in the Komsomol work department of the political management of the Moscow Military District, and since July 1964, the head of the Komsomol work department, was an assistant to the Komsomol work of the head of the political management of the Moscow Military District.

In 1965 he graduated in absentia from the law faculty of the Military-Political Academy. V.I. Lenin .

Since November 1966, deputy head of the Komsomol work department of the Main Political Administration of the SA and Navy .

Since December 1967, the head of the Komsomol work department is an assistant to the head of the political department for the Komsomol work of the Ground Forces.

Since March 1970, the head of the political department is the deputy commander of a motorized rifle division for the political part of the Far Eastern Federal District .

In 1975 he graduated from the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR. K.E. Voroshilova .

Since August 1975, he was the first deputy chief of the political department, and since October 1976 a member of the military council — the head of the political department of the Guards Combined Arms Army of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany .

Since June 1980, he was a senior inspector for the Ground Forces and Missile Forces, and since December 1982, the deputy head of the department — the head of the department of organizational and party work of the Main Political Administration of the SA and the Navy.

Since August 1985, a member of the Military Council - Head of the Political Administration of TurkVO .

Since March 1988, the deputy head of the Main Political Directorate of the SA and the Navy has been the head of the propaganda and agitation department (since July 1989, the department of ideological work, since April 1990, the department of educational work).

On November 14, 1990, by order of the President of the USSR, he was appointed a member of the Commission on Clemency Issues under the President of the USSR ^[1] .

Since April 1991, First Deputy Head of the Main Military-Political Directorate of the Armed Forces of the USSR - Head of the Department of Educational Work.

From December 1991 to September 1992, the assistant to the Commander-in-Chief of the Strategic Missile Forces for work with personnel.

After being transferred to the reserve in December 1992, he worked as an adviser to the chairman of the Russian Union of Veterans of Afghanistan , senior adviser to the chairman of the MAP “MAPO” . Since 1998, head of the department of paid education at the Military University of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation .

The delegate of the XXVII , XXVIII Congresses of the CPSU and XIX All-Union Conference of the CPSU.

He took part in the fighting as part of a limited contingent of Soviet troops in Afghanistan in 1983, 1985-1988, in Ethiopia in 1990.

The author of two books.

He died on January 29, 2006, was buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery in Moscow.

the USSR

• Order of the Red Banner (1988);
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1985);
• two orders of the Red Star (1968, 1969);
• Order "For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" III degree (1980);
  • medals of the USSR and the Russian Federation, including:
  • “For military valor. In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin ” ;
  • "Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR" ;
  • “For the strengthening of the military community” ;
  • “For the development of virgin lands” ;
  • "For perfect service" 1st degree .

Other states

• medal “To the internationalist warrior from the grateful Afghan people” ;
• other awards.

• Stefanovsky G.A. Flames of the Afghan War - M.: Military Publishing House , 1993, 101 p.
• Stefanovsky G. A. Relay of generations - M.: Publishing house DOSAAF USSR, 1988. 94, 2 p. BBK 68.4 (2) 9
• Stefanovsky G.A., Bondarenko A.V., Grigoryev A. Ya., Et al. Red Banner Turkestan - M.: Military Publishing House , 1988, 414 p. 35,000 copies ISBN 5-203-00036-0

• The military elite of Russia: Soviet period, 1917-1991. Encyclical. reference book . - M .: Veche, 2010.

• Internet portal of the Ministry of Defense of Russia
• "Center for Military-Political Research MGIMO"
• Strategic Missile Forces Command