Surovikina biography

He graduated from the Omsk Higher Combined Arms Command School of Frunze G. at the end of the xg. Then he commanded a motorized rifle platoon, a company in the 2nd Guards Motor Rifle-Rifle Taman Order of the October Revolution of the Red Banner Order of the Suvorov division named after M. This division deployed in the Moscow Region was unofficially considered one of the "elite" units of the Soviet Army.

In August, the division was involved in maintaining a state of emergency in the capital introduced by the State Emergency Committee. On the night of August 21, a military column commanded by Sergey Surovikin was blocked by protesters, as a result of a collision, three people were killed, these were the only victims during the coup, and BMP was burned. After that, Surovikin was arrested, but in December, G.

was said in the materials of the administrative investigation: “The personnel of the battalion according to the memoirs of the participants in the events, the order to release Captain Surovikin was personally given by the President of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin. He held the posts of the commander of the motorized rifle battalion, the chief of staff, the commander of the Guards Motor -Rifle Constokhov Red Banner, Order of the Red Star of the Kulyab regiment, chief of staff of the division.

After graduating from the Academy of the General Staff, he continued to serve in the Volga-Ural Military District, where with the city of Sergo Ordzhonikidze Yekaterinburg. Since June, this compound was the basis of a grouping of the Ministry of Defense in the zone of the counter -terrorist operation in the North Caucasus and repeatedly took part in clashes with Chechen militants. Commanding both divisions, Surovikin acquired a reputation as a tough and demanding military leader.

During the service in Chechnya, a wide resonance acquired his public promise "to destroy three militants for each dead soldier." Then, the headquarters of Voronezh served in the Guards Red Banner Combined Arms: since November, since November, traditionally - in Soviet times and in the latest history of Russia - GOU was headed by military leaders with mainly staff experience, while Surovikin was in command posts in command posts.

In addition, he took this post in the conditions of large -scale reform of the Russian army, which began after the operation to force Georgia to the world. The Minister of Defense worked under the leadership of Anatoly Serdyukov since January G. in September in December, Sergey Surovikin, he took the post of chief of staff, first deputy commander of the Central Military District.

Since the spring of G. in October, in this post, in particular, he was actively engaged in the creation of military infrastructure on the Kuril Islands and in the Arctic. Since March, during this period, the Syrian army, with the support of the Russian military, has been able to carry out a number of strategic operations, taking control of most of the country, the main transport communications, oil fields, etc.

Sergey Surovikin became deputy commander. According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the increase in the level of leadership was associated with the expansion of the scale of the tasks solved during its conduct, the need to organize a closer interaction between the types and military troops of the aircraft. Army General from August 16, Hero of the Russian Federation "For courage and heroism manifested in the fulfillment of military duty in the Syrian Arab Republic."