Alexander Viktorovich Galkin

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Alexander Viktorovich Galkin

Alexander Viktorovich Galkin ( Russian Александр Викторович Галкин ; born March 22, 1958 in Ordzhonikidze ) is a Russian colonel general .

In October 2010, he became the commander of the newly formed South Military District . On June 11, 2011, he was promoted to Colonel General. He is considered a confidante of Chief of Staff Nikolai Yegorowitsch Makarov and a modernizer. Among other things, Galkin was responsible for clearing up the design flaws of the T-80 , which had been found in the First Chechen War . Of these, 225 were lost in the first month of the war alone. In 1995 he convinced the Minister of Defense to stop using gas turbine-powered tanks . In March 2014, Galkin announced that Russia has been using reconnaissance and / or combat drones in the Caucasus since 2013 .

On March 18, 2014, the EU imposed an entry ban and account freezes on Galkin as part of sanctions against Russians and Ukrainians in connection with the Crimean crisis .

career

In 1990 Galkin graduated from the Frunze Military Academy and served as the head of a motorized rifle regiment . In 2003 he finished his general staff training. In 2006 he became chief of the 41st Army with headquarters in Novosibirsk . In 2008 he became Deputy Chief of the Siberian Military District. Until 2010 he was - then as lieutenant general  - commander of the North Caucasus military district of the Russian armed forces.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jens Weisbach: Executive, legislative and judicial branches of the Russian Federation 2011, p. 45
  2. ↑ http://russiandefpolicy.wordpress.com/2011/06/15/galkin-promoted/#comments, accessed March 19, 2014
  3. ↑ Russian-Manufactured Armored Vehicle Vulnerability in Urban Combat: The Chechnya Experience ( Memento from April 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) ( English )
  4. ↑ http://www.n24.de/n24/Nachrichten/Ppolitik/d/4447580/diese-verwicklichen-haben-bestraft.html N24 Nachrichten, accessed March 19, 2014
  5. ↑ http://russiandefpolicy.wordpress.com/tag/aleksandr-galkin/ Accessed March 19, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Galkin, Alexander Viktorovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Галкин, Александр Викторович (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian Colonel General
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Ordzhonikidze