Viktor Samsonov
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General of the Army Viktor Nikolaevich Samsonov (Russian: Виктор Николаевич Самсонов; 10 November 1941 – 17 November 2024) was Russian and Soviet military officer. He was the acting Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation from 1996 to 1997. Previously in 1993 Samsonov was Chief of Staff at the Military Cooperation Headquarters of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Born in 1941, an ethnic Russian, he joined the Soviet Armed Forces in 1960. After graduating from college he was sent to a Naval Infantry unit, and commanded a platoon and company. He graduated from the Far Eastern Higher Command School in 1964. Graduated from the Frunze Military Academy in 1972 (as a class-mate of future Afghan war commander Boris Gromov). Since 1972 he was a Chief of Staff of a motor rifle regiment and the Chief of Staff of a tank division in the Transbaikal Military District. Then for a few years he was chief of staff of a Combined Arms Army.
After graduating from the Military Academy of the General Staff in 1981 he was commander of the 4th Army. In 1987 – 1990s – Chief of Staff of the Transcaucasus Military District, and at the same time in 1988 – 1990 years – the military commander in Yerevan. Participated in the localization efforts of Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict. In 1990 appointed commander of the Leningrad Military District.
A member of the Communist Party from 1960 until the termination of its operations in August 1991.
During the August coup in August 1991, he was appointed military commander of the Leningrad State Emergency Committee, and ordered a state of emergency in Leningrad and the surrounding areas.
Samsonov died on 17 November 2024, at the age of 83.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ "Памяти генерала армии Самсонова Виктора Николаевича". KVRF. 18 November 2024. Retrieved 18 November 2024.
Sources
[edit]- Военная энциклопедия в 8 томах. Издат-во Министерства обороны РФ, 1994–2002, том 7.
- Russian Wikipedia
External links
[edit]- Jane's Information Group, Colonel General Viktor Samsonov
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