Igor Dmitrievich Sergeev

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Portrait of Sergeev on his tombstone in Troyekurovo Cemetery , Moscow
Sergeyev as Defense Minister of Russia in 1999

Igor Sergeyev ( Russian Игорь Дмитриевич Сергеев ., Scientific transliteration Igor Sergeev Dmitrievič * 20th April 1938 in Werchnjeje at Woroschilowgrad ; † 10. November 2006 in Moscow ) was a Soviet / Russian officer and 1997-2001 Russian defense minister . Sergeyev is the only Marshal of the Russian Federation to date .

The 1989 as deputy chief of the Strategic Missile Forces of the Soviet Army ascended lieutenant general in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union Chief of the Strategic Rocket Forces of Russia .

In May 1997 it appointed Russia's first President Boris Yeltsin for Defense and promoted him in November 1997 on the Marshal of Russia after the title of Marshal of the Soviet Union since 1991 no longer awarded or had been abolished. According to the law, Sergeyev should have retired in April 1998 at the age of 60, but both Yeltsin and his successor Vladimir Putin have repeatedly extended his term of office by presidential decree.

During his tenure as Defense Minister, he tried to emphasize the importance of his old armed forces, the Strategic Missile Forces, as the most important and most reliable guarantor of Russia's security. However, this preference was at the expense of the other branches of the armed forces, which were in an increasingly desolate state in the 1990s. The abolition of the command of the land forces by Sergejew at the end of 1997 was very controversial . It was reversed in 2001.

The Second Chechen War , which broke out in 1999, and the sinking of the nuclear submarine K-141 Kursk in August 2000 fell during his term of office . The latter damaged the reputation of Sergeev, who from then on lost Putin's favor. In addition, Chief of Staff Kvaschnin seemed to be intriguing against his minister. Sergeyev and the commander-in-chief of the Navy offered to resign, which Putin initially refused.

In March 2001 he was finally replaced as defense minister and got a post as security advisor to the president. From 2005 until his death he headed the "Club of Military Leaders of the Russian Federation", an opposition organization of retired officers, generals and ex-defense ministers.

Web links

Commons : Igor Sergejew  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Russian Military Reform 1992-2002, ed. by Anne C. Aldis and Roger Mc Dermott, Routledge, London and New York, 2003, article by Michael Orr, 131-133
personal data
SURNAME Sergejew, Igor Dmitrievich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian officer, Marshal of the Russian Federation
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Verkhnye near Voroshilovgrad
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 2006
Place of death Moscow