Valery Baranov (soldier)

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Valery Baranov
Colonel General Valery Petrovich Baranov.jpg
Native name
Валерий Петрович Баранов
Born (1948-11-16) 16 November 1948 (age 72)
Tashla, Tashlinsky District, Orenburg Oblast, Soviet Union
AllegianceSoviet Union
Russia
Service/branchSoviet Army
Russian Internal Troops
Years of service1966–2008
RankColonel general
Commands held2nd Guards Tank Division


Battles/warsSecond Chechen War
AwardsOrder of Courage

Order of Military Merit

Order for Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR 3rd class

Valery Petrovich Baranov (Russian: Валерий Петрович Баранов; born 16 November 1948) is a retired colonel general of the Internal Troops of Russia.

Biography[]

Baranov was born on 16 November 1948 in Orenburg Oblast. He graduated from the  [ru] (1970), the Military Armored Forces Academy (1978), the Academy of the General Staff (1988), and the  [ru] (1998).[1]

Baranov served as the deputy commander-in-chief of the forces of the Moscow Military District for combat training and as the deputy commander-in-chief of forces of the North Caucasus Military District from July 2000 to October 2001. He commanded the united group of the troops in the North-Caucasian region since August 2002.[2]

He held the post of the deputy commander-in-chief of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia since September 2003 until May 2004.

On 9 May 2004 he lost a leg during the assassination of Akhmad Kadyrov in Grozny, Chechen Republic, Russian Federation.

Baranov retired in 2008. He participated in the writing of the 12-volume Great Patriotic War history Великая Отечественная война 1941—1945 годов (English: History of the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945). Baranov helped write the book История внутренних войск (English: History of the Internal Troops).[3]

He is married and has two children and one granddaughter.[4]

External links[]

  1. ^ Alexandrov, Igor (28 July 2005). "Валерий Баранов снова в форме" [Valery Baranov again in the form]. Rossiyskaya Gazeta (in Russian). Retrieved 23 October 2016.
  2. ^ "Reshuffle of Military Top Brass in Chechnya". Gazeta.ru. 3 August 2001. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
  3. ^ Yeliseyeva, Marina (15 November 2013). "Рубежи генерала Баранова" [Lines of General Baranov]. Krasnaya Zvezda (in Russian). Retrieved 23 October 2016.
  4. ^ Scott and Scott, Russian Military Directory 2004, pp.162, 239
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