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Ihor Fedorov
Major General Ihor Vasylovych Fedorov (Ukrainian: Ігор Васильович Федоров; born on 8 June 1954), is a Ukrainian soldier, who is the First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Land Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Fedorov had been the Chief of Staff - first deputy commander of the Operational Command South, and had been the acting commander of the military district in 2012. He had been the Chief of Staff - first deputy commander of the troops of the Southern Military District, the Chief Operational Duty Officer, and has been the Deputy Chief of the Main Command Center of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Biography Ihor Fedorov was born on 8 June 1954 in the village of Ishkiv, now Ternopil District, Ternopil Oblast to his father, Vasyl Okesiyovych (1925-1976) and his mother, Yevheniya Mykolaivna (1925-1988). In 1972, he graduated from the Kyiv Suvorov School. In 1976, he graduated from the Kyiv higher military command school named after M. V. Frunze. He graduated f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukraine
Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian invasion, it was the eighth-most populous country in Europe, with a population of around 41 million people. It is also bordered by Belarus to the north; by Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; and by Romania and Moldova to the southwest; with a coastline along the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov to the south and southeast. Kyiv is the nation's capital and largest city. Ukraine's state language is Ukrainian; Russian is also widely spoken, especially in the east and south. During the Middle Ages, Ukraine was the site of early Slavic expansion and the area later became a key centre of East Slavic culture under the state of Kievan Rus', which emerged in the 9th century. The state eventually disintegrated into rival regional po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national republics; in practice, both its government and its economy were highly centralized until its final years. It was a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, with the city of Moscow serving as its capital as well as that of its largest and most populous republic: the Russian SFSR. Other major cities included Leningrad (Russian SFSR), Kiev (Ukrainian SSR), Minsk ( Byelorussian SSR), Tashkent (Uzbek SSR), Alma-Ata (Kazakh SSR), and Novosibirsk (Russian SFSR). It was the largest country in the world, covering over and spanning eleven time zones. The country's roots lay in the October Revolution of 1917, when the Bolsheviks, under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Russian Provisional Government ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Major General
Major general (abbreviated MG, maj. gen. and similar) is a military rank used in many countries. It is derived from the older rank of sergeant major general. The disappearance of the "sergeant" in the title explains the apparent confusion of a lieutenant general outranking a major general, whereas a major outranks a lieutenant. In the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth and in the United States, when appointed to a field command, a major general is typically in command of a Division (military), division consisting of around 6,000 to 25,000 troops (several regiments or brigades). It is a two-star general, two-star rank that is subordinate to the rank of lieutenant general and senior to the rank of brigadier or brigadier general. In the Commonwealth, major general is equivalent to the navy rank of rear admiral. In air forces with a separate rank structure (Commonwealth), major general is equivalent to air vice-marshal. In some countries including much of Eastern Europe, major ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operational Command South
The Operational Command South (OC South) is a formation of the Ukrainian Ground Forces in the southern part of Ukraine, which was formed in January 1998 as the Southern Operation Command on the basis of the Odesa Military District and headquartered in Odesa. In 2005-2013 it was known as the Southern Operation Association. Until 2015 Operational Command South covered 9 oblasts and autonomous republics: Odesa, Kirovohrad, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk oblasts and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. In 2015 eastern parts of the operation command territory were passed on to newly formed Operation Command East based in Dnipro. The headquarters of the OC South was relocated from Odesa to Mykolaiv. Composition By 1 July 2006, the Southern Operational Command included 6th Army Corps (6 AK) and other units comprising: * 17th Armoured Brigade (Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast) * 28th Guards Mechanised Brigade ( Chornomorske, Odesa Oblast) reo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leningrad Military District
The Leningrad Military District was a military district of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 2010 it was merged with the Moscow Military District, the Northern Fleet and the Baltic Fleet to form the new Western Military District. History The Leningrad Military District was originally formed as the Petrograd Military District after the October Revolution of 1917 up to the beginning of the formation of the Red Army. The Petrograd District was established as a part of the Red Army (RKKA) by order в"– 71 of the Highest Military Council of 6 September 1918. On 1 February 1924, by the order в"– 126 the Revolutionary Military Councils of the USSR the Petrograd military district was renamed the Leningrad Military District. Markian Popov was appointed District Commander in 1939. Its main purpose was the defence of the Kola Peninsula and the northern shores of the Gulf of Finland. On the right flank it bordered with the Arkhangelsk Military District, on the left — with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operational Command North
Operational Command North is a command of the Ukrainian Ground Forces in northern Ukraine. It was formed in 2013 from the Operation Command West, Western Operational Command and Territorial Directorate North by reforming the 13th Army Corps (Ukraine), 13th Army Corps. The operation command traces its history back to Territorial Directorate "North", which was created on the basis of Northern Territorial Operational Command by Directive No.322/1/010 of the Ministry of Defence (Ukraine)#List of Ministers of Defence, Minister of Defence of Ukraine on 20 May 2005. The previous Northern Operational Command was created in 1996 and based on the 1st Army Corps that continued the traditions of the 1st Guards Army (Soviet Union), 1st Guard Red-Banner Army. It encompassed six oblasts: Poltava Oblast, Poltava, Sumy Oblast, Sumy, Kyiv Oblast, Kyiv, Zhytomyr Oblast, Zhytomyr, Chernihiv Oblast, Chernihiv, and Cherkasy Oblast, Cherkasy. The command consisted of units and military formations of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anatoliy Sirotenko
Lieutenant General Anatoliy Mykolayovych Syrotenko (Ukrainian: Анатолій Миколайович Сиротенко; born on 4 March 1960), is a Ukrainian military commander, who had commanded the Operational Command South from 2012 to 2016. He is now the head of the National Defense University of Ukraine named after Ivan Chernyakhovsky since 2017. He is the Doctor of military sciences, candidate of technical sciences, professor. Biography Anatoliy Syrotenko was born on 4 March 1960 in the village of Natalyne in Kharkiv Oblast. In 1981, he graduated from the Kharkiv Guards Higher Tank Command School. In the same year, he was appointed as a tank platoon commander in the Desna center, then he was a training tank platoon commander, a company commander, a battalion chief, a combatant, and a deputy regiment commander. After graduating from the newly established Academy of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (first graduation), he commanded a regiment for two years and was chief of s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
