Anatoly Alexejewitsch Nogowitsyn

Anatoli Alexejewitsch Nogowizyn ( Russian Анатолий Алексеевич Ноговицын ; born April 29, 1952 in Baryshevka in Semipalatinsk Oblast , Kazakh SSR ; † November 5, 2019 in Moscow ) was a Russian colonel general . Most recently, until May 2012, he was First Deputy Chief of the United Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).

In 1973 he graduated from the Highest Military Aviation School in Armavir with honors and graduated from the Zhukov Military Academy for Air Defense Commanders in 1980 . In the following decades he served in various units and positions in the Soviet air force and air defense.

From 1998 to 2000, Nogovitsyn was the first deputy commander and chief of the staff of the Russian Air Force and the Air Defense Forces in the Far East .

From 2000 to 2002 he was Commander of the 11th Army of the Air Force and Air Defense, and from 2002 to 2008 Deputy Commander in Chief of the Air Force.

After his appointment as Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces in July 2008, he became known to a wider public during the 2008 Caucasus War , especially in Russia, as he gave daily press conferences on the situation in the conflict zone as spokesman for the General Staff .

From March 1, 2010 until his age-related discharge from military service on May 3, 2012, he served in the position of First Deputy Chief of the United Staff of the CSTO.

Anatoly Nogowitsyn was a candidate for military science and a "deserved fighter pilot of the Russian Federation". He completed a flight time of approx. 2800 hours on 10 different types of aircraft.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://ria.ru/20191105/1560591461.html
2. ↑ RIA Novosti: Russian Deputy General Staff Chief Dismissed from Army (May 3, 2012). Retrieved May 3, 2012.

Web links

• Presentation in the Daily Telegraph (English)
• Biography on Lentapedia (Russian)