Valentin Ivanovich Varennikov
Valentin Varennikov ( Russian Валентин Иванович Варенников ., Scientific transliteration Valentin Ivanovich Varennikov * 15. December 1923 in Krasnodar , † 6. May 2009 in Moscow ) was a Soviet-Russian army general and politician.
Life
Valentin Warennikow came from a poor Cossack family in Krasnodar. He fought as an officer in the Red Army in the Battle of Stalingrad and in the successful operations to recapture Ukraine and Belarus against the Wehrmacht . During the Battle of Berlin he took part in the capture of the Reichstag .
Warennikow remained in the Soviet Army in the GDR until 1969 as an officer and lieutenant general (from April 19, 1970) . From August 1969 to June 1971 the 3rd Army of the GSSD commanded in Magdeburg .
As a general, he became Commander-in-Chief of the Land Forces of the USSR and Deputy Minister of Defense of the Soviet Union in 1989 . In 1991 he was charged with participating in the August coup against Mikhail Gorbachev . After he rejected the amnesty offered to him, the Russian Supreme Court acquitted him in August 1994.
In 1995, Varennikov was elected as a member of the Communist Party to the Duma . In the Duma, Varennikov presided over the Veterans Affairs Committee. In 2003 he joined the Rodina block. Valentin Varennikov carried the title Hero of the Soviet Union as well as numerous other Soviet, Russian and foreign awards and honorary degrees. He was married with two sons and last lived in Moscow.
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| SURNAME | Varennikov, Valentin Ivanovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Варенников, Валентин Иванович (Russian); Varennikov, Valentin Ivanovič (scientific transliteration) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 15, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Krasnodar |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 6, 2009 |
| Place of death | Moscow |