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Viktor Dubynin
Viktor Petrovich Dubynin (russian: Виктор Петрович Дубынин) was a prominent Soviet and Russian military figure, an Army General, and a Hero of the Russian Federation (posthumously). Born in 1943, Viktor Dubynin had been in service with the Soviet Army since 1961. In 1964 he graduated from the Far Eastern Tank Academy, then from the Rodion Malinovsky Armored Forces Academy in 1978, and finally from the General Staff Academy in 1984. From 1986 to 1987 he served as commander of the Soviet 40th Army in Afghanistan. From 1989 to 1992 he was the (penultimate) commander of the Soviet Northern Group of Forces in Poland. On 10 June 1992, Dubynin was appointed by President Boris Yeltsin as Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. On the 5 October, he became Russia's first General of the Army since the Collapse of the Soviet Union. At that moment Dubynin was already suffering from terminal cancer, so the then-Minister of Defense Pave ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Martyush, Sverdlovsk Oblast
Martyush (russian: Мартюш) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Kamensky District of Sverdlovsk Oblast Sverdlovsk Oblast ( rus, Свердловская область, Sverdlovskaya oblast) is a federal subject (an oblast) of Russia located in the Ural Federal District. Its administrative center is the city of Yekaterinburg, formerly known as S ..., Russia. Population: References Urban-type settlements in Sverdlovsk Oblast {{SverdlovskOblast-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Boris Yeltsin
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin ( rus, Борис Николаевич Ельцин, p=bɐˈrʲis nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈjelʲtsɨn, a=Ru-Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin.ogg; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the first president of the Russian Federation from 1991 to 1999. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1961 to 1990. He later stood as a political independent, during which time he was viewed as being ideologically aligned with liberalism and Russian nationalism. Yeltsin was born in Butka, Ural Oblast. He grew up in Kazan and Berezniki. After studying at the Ural State Technical University, he worked in construction. After joining the Communist Party, he rose through its ranks, and in 1976 he became First Secretary of the party's Sverdlovsk Oblast committee. Yeltsin was initially a supporter of the '' perestroika'' reforms of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. He later criticized the reforms a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |