Anatoly Vladimirovich Betekhin (russian: Анатолий Владимирович Бетехин; September 20, 1931 – October 27, 2012)
was a

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military commander and full general since 1988. He was born in the village of Argunovo,

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. He started his military career in 1950 and graduated from the Kiev Military college of

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in 1953, the Military Academy of Armoured Forces in 1961, the General Staff Academy in 1972, and higher academic courses of General Staff Academy in 1980. Betekhin became a full general of the

Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, after ...

. In June 1981 he was appointed as a head of the

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. In January 1984 he headed the

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. In 1987 Betekhin became the commander of the

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. From 1988 to 1992 he was the first deputy minister of the Soviet Land Forces.

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1931 births 2012 deaths Army generals (Soviet Union) Burials in Troyekurovskoye Cemetery People from Nikolsky District, Vologda Oblast Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union alumni {{Russia-mil-bio-stub