Valentin Varennikov

Valentin Ivanovich Varennikov (Russian Валентин Иванович Варенников, scientific transliteration Valentin Ivanovich Varennikov; * December 15, 1923 in Krasnodar, † 6 May, 2009 Moscow ) was a Soviet- Russian army general and politician.

Valentin Varennikov came from a poor Cossack family in Krasnodar. He fought as an officer in the Red Army at the Battle of Stalingrad and in the successful operations to recapture the Ukraine and Belarus against the Wehrmacht. During the Battle of Berlin, he was involved in the taking of the Reichstag.

Varennikov remained until 1950 as an officer in the Soviet Army in East Germany. When General In 1989 he was commander in chief of the Soviet Ground Forces and Deputy Defense Minister of the Soviet Union. In 1991 he was accused of involvement in the August coup against Mikhail Gorbachev. After he had dismissed the amnesty offered to him, the Supreme Court of Russian acquitted him in August 1994.

1995 Varennikov was elected as a member of the Communist Party to the deputies of the Duma. In the Duma Varennikov had the Presidency of the Committee of Veterans Affairs. In 2003, he joined the Rodina block. Valentin Varennikov bore the title Hero of the Soviet Union and many other Soviet, Russian and foreign awards and honorary titles. He was married, had two sons and lived most recently in Moscow.

Documents

  • A report of the European security, Russia after the Duma elections to its position in the Rodina block
  • Varennikov on warheroes.ru (Russian)
  • Varennikov on peoples.ru (Russian)
  • Obituary article (Russian )
  • Deputy Minister of Defence (Soviet Union)
  • General of the Army (Soviet Union)
  • General of the Army (Russian Federation)
  • CPSU member
  • Hero of the Soviet Union
  • State Duma deputy
  • Person during the Second World War ( Soviet Union)
  • Soviet citizens
  • Russian
  • Born in 1923
  • Died in 2009
  • Man
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