Funeral march of Russian generals. They shot themselves or hanged themselves: a complete list of the dead generals of the Russian Federation has been compiled
TASS-DOSIER. On September 24, 2017, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that the senior group of Russian military advisers in Syria, Lieutenant General Valery Asapov, died near the city of Deir ez-Zor. He was mortally wounded in a mortar attack by militants" Islamic State"(ISIS, banned in the Russian Federation) command post of the Syrian army.
The editors of TASS-DOSIER compiled a chronology of cases of the death of generals of the Soviet and Russian Armed Forces who died in local conflicts since 1980. Three generals of the USSR Ministry of Defense died in Democratic Republic Afghanistan (DRA, now the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan), two Russian generals- in North Ossetia, four - in the Chechen Republic.
Afghanistan
All three generals who died in the Afghan conflict were representatives Air force(Air Force).
September 5, 1981 in the area of the Lurkokh mountain range (southwestern part of the country, south of the city of Shindand), Major General Vadim Khakhalov, deputy commander of the Air Force of the Turkestan military district, died in a Mi-8T helicopter shot down by dushmans. In order to take out the body of the general, it was necessary to carry out a special military operation- the crash site was in an area controlled by militants. Posthumously, Vadim Khakhalov was awarded the Order of Lenin.
February 19, 1982 in Afghanistan, Lieutenant General Pyotr Shkidchenko, deputy chief military adviser - head of the combat operations control group in the DRA, died. The Mi-8 helicopter of the Afghan Air Force, carrying Shkidchenko, was fired from the ground 16 km from the city of Khost (southeast of the country), made an emergency landing and burned down. In addition to the lieutenant general, four Soviet pilots died on board. July 4, 2000 Petr Shkidchenko was awarded the title of Hero Russian Federation posthumously.
November 12, 1985 in Afghanistan, the adviser to the commander of the Afghan Air Force, Major General Nikolai Vlasov, died. During a sortie on the route Kandahar - Shindand, the MiG-21bis fighter of the Afghan Air Force, which he piloted, was shot down using a portable anti-aircraft missile system(MANPADS). Nikolai Vlasov was able to eject, but died (according to one version, he was shot by militants while descending on a parachute, according to another, he was killed while trying to take him prisoner on the ground). He was posthumously awarded the Order of the Red Star.
Two more Soviet generals - head of department General Staff USSR Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Anatoly Dragun and Advisor to the Commander of the Artillery of the Armed Forces of Afghanistan, Major General Leonid Tsukanov - died in Afghanistan from natural causes.
North Ossetia
August 1, 1993 in the area with Tarskoye (Prigorodny district of North Ossetia), a car was shot from an ambush, in which the participants in the negotiations on the settlement of the Ossetian-Ingush conflict were moving.
The commander of the 42nd Army Corps of the North Caucasus Military District (SKVO), the head of the Vladikavkaz garrison, Major General Anatoly Koretsky, the head of the temporary administration in the conflict zone, Viktor Polyanichko, and an officer of the Alfa anti-terrorist group were killed Federal Service counterintelligence (FSK) of Russia, Senior Lieutenant Viktor Kravchuk, four more were injured. Major General Anatoly Koretsky was posthumously awarded the Order "For Personal Courage". The perpetrators could not be found.
April 16, 1998 on the highway Mozdok - Vladikavkaz in the area of the Khurikau pass of the Sunzha mountain range ( North Ossetia) during the shelling of a convoy, the deputy head of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces, Major General Viktor Prokopenko, was killed. The killers were never identified.
Chechen Republic
January 18, 2000 in the Zavodskoy district of Grozny (Chechnya), the head of the combat training department of the 58th Army of the North Caucasian Military District, the deputy commander of the group, was killed in a shootout with militants federal troops"North" in the Chechen Republic, Major General Mikhail Malofeev. He was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation.
September 17, 2001 on the eastern outskirts of Grozny Chechen fighters MANPADS "Igla" shot down a Mi-8 helicopter of the Russian Ministry of Defense. 13 people died on board, including Major General Anatoly Pozdnyakov, Head of the 2nd Directorate of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces, and Major General Pavel Varfolomeev, Deputy Head of the Main Directorate of Personnel of the RF Ministry of Defense. Both were in Chechnya as part of the commission of the General Staff. The militants who fired at the helicopter were subsequently arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment.
November 29, 2001 A 15-year-old suicide bomber, Aizan Gazuyeva, blew herself up on one of the squares of Urus-Martan, when the military commandant of the city, Major General Gaidar Gadzhiev, met with local residents. Gadzhiev was severely wounded, from which he died on December 1, 2001 in a military hospital in Mozdok.
Besides, March 6, 2000 in with. Vedeno (Chechnya) on command post commander of the group died of acute heart failure marines Russian Navy in the North Caucasus, Major General Alexander Otrakovsky. For services to the Motherland in the same year he was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation.
According to open sources, in addition to the generals of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, since 1992, a total of 11 generals of the police, internal service, FSB and other departments have died (were killed or died of natural causes during hostilities) in the North Caucasus.
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Colonel General Troshev Gennady Nikolaevich.
Colonel-General Troshev, commander of military operations in Chechnya and Dagestan (1995 - 2002), died on September 14, 2008 in a Boeing-737-500 plane crash in the Perm region. According to rumors, he was preparing a confrontation between the Airborne Forces and the official authorities.
Deputy Chief of Staff of the North Caucasian Regional Command of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Major General Lipinsky Valery Vladimirovich.
On December 29, 2008, Deputy Chief of Staff of the North Caucasian Regional Command of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Major General Lipinsky, was killed in Makhachkala. "Niva" Lipinsky was fired upon by unknown people. The general was wounded in the chest, after which he was taken to the hospital, where he died from blood loss.
Major General of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, retired Alexander Rogachev.
On February 22, 2009, in a Toyota Land Cruiser SUV parked next to the Parisien restaurant on Leningradsky Prospekt with the engine running, the body of retired FSB Major General Rogachev was found. Initially, police officers assumed that Rogachev had died. naturally from an unidentified disease, however, during a detailed examination in the morgue, a 9 mm bullet was extracted from the head of the deceased by experts. Since Rogachev was reputed to be a very cautious person, and he was shot in his own car, it was assumed that the general was well acquainted with the killer and let him into the car himself.
Major General Petrov Konstantin Pavlovich.
On June 21, 2009, Major General Petrov, leader of the KPE party and head of the opposition project "Concept of Public Security" (KOB), dies in Moscow. Three came to him. They introduced themselves as journalists from Washington and asked for an interview. After meeting with them, the General, full of health, died suddenly on July 21, 2009! Petrov at one time participated in the development and testing space system"Energy-Buran". Despite the official version of natural death, supporters of General Petrov to this day claim that he was poisoned.
Major General Yuri Ivanov, Deputy Chief of the GRU of the General Staff armed forces RF.
Dies at very mysterious circumstances. Ivanov's corpse was discovered on August 16, 2010 (this year will be fatal for many generals). Decayed body found on the beach mediterranean sea residents of a coastal village in Turkey. IN last time the general was seen alive on the opposite bank - in Syria, when he visited a construction site in the notorious city of Tartus, where at that time the construction of new facilities of the Russian naval base was underway Black Sea Fleet. After visiting the base in Tartus, Ivanov went to meet with Syrian intelligence officers (why is there no security for an officer of this highest rank). Somewhere around this time, he disappeared. It should be noted that Ivanov was actually the second person in Russian administration military intelligence GRU. Allegedly, he was the organizer of a series of murders of Chechens living abroad. Yuri Ivanov is also associated with the Tu-154 plane crash in Smolensk, which killed the President of Poland Lech Kaczynski, almost the entire military command of Poland, as well as a number of Polish politicians and public figures.
Major General Chevrizov Victor, former boss intelligence agency main command internal troops Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.
On October 4, 2010, Major General Chevrizov, the former head of the intelligence department of the main command of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, shot himself in the head with a premium pistol in his own entrance on Veernaya Street in Moscow. It is noteworthy that in the Chechen war, Chevrizov served as deputy head of the intelligence department for the command and use of forces. special purpose. A few days later, following Chevrizov, FSB Lieutenant Colonel Boris Smirnov shot himself in his garage in the north of Moscow (suffice it to recall the rumors about the strange request of the President of Chechnya to provide him with data on the special forces of the secret power structures of the FSB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Moscow Region).
Lieutenant General Dubrov Grigory Karpovich .
Lieutenant General Dubrov died suddenly on October 28, 2010, falling from a platform under an electric train in the Balashikha district of the Moscow region. First, he was diagnosed with throat cancer. They did the surgery at the hospital. The Siberian health of the General allowed him to get into service after that, and he is again at the forefront of the information war. Then on October 28, 2010 he was pushed under the train. The general is not Anna Karenina to throw himself under a train! The main version of the death is a contract political murder with an attempt to disguise it as an accident. Dubrov served as Chairman of the Presidium of the Russian Anti-Fascist Committee and was a member coordinating council military-patriotic public organizations Russia. Earlier, in February 2010, under the chairmanship of General Dubrov, an All-Russian Officers' Conference was held, at which a decision was made to begin preparations for the removal of the Putin-Medvedev regime. On November 7, Dubrov was supposed to speak at the “Army against Serdyukov” rally (at that time Serdyukov was the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation). It is noteworthy that not only Dubrov could not attend this rally, but also Lieutenant General Debashvili, who will be found dead in the center of Moscow, and Lieutenant General Shamanov, who will have a car accident in Tula on October 30. A strange fate haunts the generals from the book Generals on the Jewish Mafia.
Lieutenant General Debashvili Boris.
On October 30, 2010, the body of Lieutenant General Debashvili was found at house number 28 on Komsomolsky Prospekt in the center of Moscow. What happened to him is still unknown.
Colonel General Achalov Vladislav Alekseevich.
Colonel-General Achalov died "after a severe and prolonged illness" on June 23, 2011. Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR (1990 - 1991), Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation (September 22 - October 4, 1993). Achalov was always known for his uncompromising attitude towards the regime. In the fall of 1993, Achalov was among the leaders of the uprising that began in Moscow after the blockade of deputies Supreme Council Russia. After the uprising, he was arrested, but released under an amnesty in 1994. Later he demanded the dismissal of Serdyukov, was one of the main organizers of the November rally in 2010, in front of which Generals Dubrov, Chevrizov and Debashvili died under mysterious circumstances, and General Shamanov survived, but due to injuries received in a car accident, he ended up in the hospital, and couldn't come.
Major General of the FSB Morev Konstantin Anatolyevich.
On August 26, 2011, Major General Morev was found dead in his office with a bullet in his head. Morev served as head of the FSB department of the Tver region. Prior to that, Morev was the head of the FSB of Russia in the Republic of Sakha-Yakutia.
Lieutenant General Shebarshin Leonid Vladimirovich.
Lieutenant General Shebarshin, Chief foreign intelligence USSR (from 02/06/1989 to 09/22/1991), Acting Chairman of the KGB of the USSR (from August 22 to 23, 1991), on March 30, 2012, in his apartment on 2nd Tverskaya-Yamskaya, he committed suicide by shooting himself from a premium pistol. Shebarshin graduated from MGIMO, knew four languages, worked in India, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan. Shebarshin was Putin's boss during his tenure at the PGU KGB.
Army General Grachev Pavel Sergeevich.
Army General Grachev, Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation (1992 - 1996), died on September 23, 2012 at the Vishnevsky Central Military Clinical Hospital. The cause of death was either a stroke, or poisoning, or an incurable disease that tormented the general for a long time. In the official report of the Ministry of Defense, it was said that Grachev died of acute meningoencephalitis. General Grachev was an epic personality, a man who prepared the State Emergency Committee, but at the last moment went over to Yeltsin, then shot White House in 1993, led the withdrawal of troops from of Eastern Europe, negotiated to reduce nuclear arsenal, led the entry of troops into the territory of Transnistria, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, as well as the transfer of Russian peacekeepers to Bosnia; under him was the First Chechen War. General Grachev, of course, knew a lot, and he took this knowledge with him to the grave, without writing a single line of memoirs after his resignation.
Head of the Intelligence Directorate of the Counterintelligence Service of the Central Office of the FSB of Russia, Lieutenant-General Skopintsev Oleg.
In December 2012, during the mysterious plane crash of a private helicopter Robinson R-44, the head of the intelligence department of the counterintelligence service of the central apparatus of the FSB of Russia, Lieutenant-General Oleg Skopintsev, who was called simply “a resident of Moscow” in most reports of this incident in the media, died. The main focus of this incident was shifted towards the shady businessman Fyodor Tsarev (known in criminal circles nicknamed Peat King), in the company of which there was a general on board a helicopter. Also during the crash, Vasily Petrov, the son of the ex-head of the Federal Property Management Agency, was on board the helicopter, whose name the FSB also tried to classify. All three died.
Major General of the Strategic Missile Forces Bondarev.
On April 19, 2013, Major General of the Strategic Missile Forces Bondarev, a teacher at the Academy of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces, committed suicide. Bondarev hanged himself in the bathroom of his own apartment.
Vice Admiral Yury Gavrilovich Ustimenko.
On the night of January 3, 2014, Vice Admiral Ustimenko, former deputy commander of the Northern Fleet Russian Navy.
Rear Admiral of the Navy Apanasenko Vyacheslav Mikhailovich.
On February 7, 2014, Navy Rear Admiral Apanasenko attempted suicide by shooting himself in the head with a premium pistol. He died in the hospital a few days later. Apanasenko's daughter said that the reason for the suicide was the lack of painkillers from her father, who had cancer.
Major General of the Armed Forces of the USSR, retired Saplin Boris Stepanovich.
On March 18, 2014, retired Major General of the USSR Armed Forces Saplin committed suicide by shooting himself with a premium pistol. It was reported that Saplin complained of terrible pain in his head caused by cancer of the last stage. There was also a suicide note about it.
GRU Major General Viktor Gudkov.
GRU Major General Gudkov shot himself with an award pistol on June 8, 2014 in the south of Moscow. Gudkov "suffered from a serious illness and committed suicide from depression."
Major General of the Police Kolesnikov Boris Borisovich.
June 16, 2014 Police Major General Kolesnikov (2012 - 2014 - Deputy Head of the Main Directorate economic security and combating corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia) committed suicide right during the interrogation, throwing himself from the 6th floor of the building of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. The causes and circumstances of his death to this day have not been fully elucidated, but there is a version. At the end of 2013, the department of General Kolesnikov began development in relation to certain Igor Leonidovich and Valery Alexandrovich. Subsequently, the media claimed that Valery Aleksandrovich was the head of the public fund of former FSB officers, the second person was Igor Leonidovich Demin, deputy head of the 6th service of the 9th department of the FSB. One of the intermediaries involved in the development of the FSB officers handed over operational information to the agency being developed, as a result of which the FSB initiated a response investigation, the arrest of the general’s subordinates, and in February he was summoned to the TFR as a witness for interrogation, which turned into arrest. In March, the president stripped General Kolesnikov of his post. In early April 2014, Kolesnikov sent a letter to Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yuri Chaika and Chairman of the RF Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin, outlining his version of events. In May, the general began to receive “domestic” craniocerebral injuries one after another in the pre-trial detention center. He filed a complaint with the ECtHR, claiming that his life was in danger.
Some media expose him as a high-ranking official who tried to fabricate a bribe case, after his arrest he smashed his head against the wall in the pre-trial detention center and threw himself from the 6th floor of the TFR. Other media and relatives present themselves as a fighter against corruption, who was arrested after trying to expose a high-ranking bribe-taker general of the FSB, then hit him in the head several times in the pre-trial detention center and, after interrogation in the ICR, was thrown from the 6th floor. There is a version that the situation arose in connection with the redistribution of the "cash market" of cash payment terminals. According to this version, the market was supervised by the GUEBiPK, including Generals Sugrobov and Kolesnikov.
"After every significant operation, the Kremlin conducts a series of sweeps," - InformNapalm. PHOTO It's no secret that Russian generals often die, and not always of natural causes. This is stated in the article international community InformNapalm, whose authors have tried to compile the most full list the most mysterious and a little less mysterious deaths generals and admirals, which are replete with recent history Russia.
“The circumstances of the death of these people in many cases have not been fully elucidated, the secrets are buried. Let the readers decide for themselves which of this was an accident, which was a murder, which was a suicide, and which was an ordinary death from old age or illness. We also compiled an infographic of the deaths of Russian generals, on the scale of which we singled out two eras of government Russian presidents", the article says.
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Marshal of the USSR, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR and First Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR (1984-88) Akhromeev after the failure of the putsch, the GKChP committed suicide in his Kremlin office on August 24, 1991 (at that time Akhromeev worked as an adviser to Mikhail Gorbachev on military issues). However, the materials of the suicide case are full of inconsistencies and oddities. Firstly, the very method of suicide is striking: the military decides not to shoot himself, but to hang himself, also in a sitting position. Secondly, according to the notes left, there were two suicide attempts on the same day, but there are testimonies of witnesses who saw Akhromeev and received orders from him by phone in the interval between two attempts. Thirdly, one of the witnesses said that in the same interval someone entered and left Akhromeev's office. Fourthly, the investigator is very long time They were not allowed to the scene and forbade taking witnesses. On September 1, 1991, Marshal Akhromeev was buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery without military honors.
Colonel General Gusev died in a car accident on November 30, 1992 in Moscow. There were persistent rumors that in fact it was a planned murder, because seconds before the accident, Gusev's driver suddenly lost consciousness. The cause of the sudden malaise of the driver has not been established.
In February 1993, on the way to the airport near Vladivostok, the head of the department died as a result of a collision between a service Volga and a ZIL. military counterintelligence Pacific Fleet Rear Admiral Egorkin. He was on his way to Moscow for a meeting of the heads of Russia's special services and law enforcement agencies on the problems of combating organized crime and corruption.
Army General Barannikov, former Minister of Internal Affairs of the RSFSR (1990-1991), the last Minister of Internal Affairs of the USSR (1991) and Minister of Security of the Russian Federation (1992-1993). Engaged in the Karabakh conflict. He is also known for taking part in the arrest of the Minister of Defense of the USSR Yazov after the August 1991 coup. riots in September-October 1993
On May 22, 1996, a drunken police officer hit a pedestrian, as a result of which one of the leaders of the GRU of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces died major general Lomanov.
June 18, 1996 committed suicide major general armored forces Volkov. He shot himself with a premium pistol, which Yeltsin awarded him. During his lifetime, Volkov was deputy head of the Main Directorate of the Cossack troops, a member of the temporary monitoring commission for the settlement of the military conflict in Chechnya, and also oversaw the exchange of prisoners.
May 5, 1997 committed suicide Major General of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Federation Shipilov. He jumped out of the window of his apartment in the house on the street. Winged Hills. He did not leave a death note, but according to investigators, the cause was mental disorder Shipilov, which manifested itself after the return of the general from Yugoslavia. Shipilov from the beginning of the 90s served as a military attache in Yugoslavia (he worked during hostilities), organized peace negotiations during the Yugoslav conflict.
Lieutenant General Rokhlin, led the capture of the presidential palace and a number of districts in Grozny. He was the contact person for negotiating a ceasefire with Chechen field commanders. Refused to be awarded the Hero of Russia for the successful capture of Grozny: "In civil war commanders cannot gain glory. The war in Chechnya is not the glory of Russia, but its misfortune. "In 1997, Rokhlin creates his own political movement, is always in opposition to power, according to some rumors, he plans a military overthrow, according to others, Yeltsin's impeachment. On the night of July 3, 1998 was found shot to death in his own dacha. His own wife was accused of killing the general.
In the same July 1998, the deputy head of the GUBOP of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation died in a car accident. Major General Baturin. His death is some Russian media associated with the investigation into the murder of journalist Dmitry Kholodov, who seriously developed the topic of corruption in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. A group of servicemen from the 45th regiment enters the dock on charges of murdering Kholodov special forces of the Airborne Forces led by the chief of intelligence of the Airborne Forces Popovskikh (the court will acquit them all). It turns out that the 45th Airborne Regiment participated in special operations to physically eliminate Russian and foreign citizens both inside Russia and abroad. In the course of the case, the investigation goes to the GUBOP of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and to Baturin himself, who personally signed cover documents for the soldiers of the 45th regiment. Shortly after this, Baturin dies.
On August 7, 1999, in the Stupinsky district of the Moscow region, the head of the GRU department dies after losing control of the car. Major General Shalaev.
May 31, 2001 in the village. Khankala (Chechnya) on the territory of the headquarters of the Russian military group suddenly dies of a heart attack Admiral Ugryumov. The rank of admiral was awarded to him the day before - May 30. Ugryumov served as deputy director of the FSB and headed the Department for the Protection of the Constitutional System and the Fight against Terrorism. Since 2001, Ugryumov has been combining this work with the position of head of the Regional Operational Headquarters in the North Caucasus.
Lieutenant General Lebed died on April 28, 2002 in the crash of an MI-8 helicopter in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. General Lebed, along with General Rokhlin, was often called the most likely candidate to lead a military mutiny in the Russian Federation.
On September 11, 2002, Major General Gertsev, head of one of the departments of the Main Missile and Artillery Directorate of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, died in a car accident at the 45th kilometer of the Kiev highway.
Major General of the Federal Border Service Platoshin was shot dead in the cabin of his "Mercedes" from his own pistol by a random fellow traveler near Cheboksary, whose name was changed "in the interests of the investigation." The incident occurred in September 2002. Platoshin was the aviation commander of the FPS group in Tajikistan, and was also involved in the fight against drugs on the Tajik-Afghan border.
4 June 2002 dies Army General Ivashutin. Ivashutin was the 1st Deputy Chairman of the KGB of the USSR (1954-1963), acting. chairman of the KGB of the USSR (November 5-13, 1961), head of the GRU - deputy head of the General Staff of the USSR Armed Forces (1963-1986). In 2002, General Ivashutin reached a very advanced age, so that, most likely, he calmly rested in a bose without outside interference.
Major General Shevelev was found burnt in his own car in the Ramensky district of the Moscow region on September 19, 2002. Traces of burglary and robbery were found at his dacha. According to investigators, it was the robbers who burned Shevelev in his own car, having previously driven it to a nearby locality. Until 1997, Shevelev worked at the Federal Agency for Government Communications and Information (FAPSI), and after that he held the position of Deputy Director of OJSC Rostelecom.
30 October 2002 dies Major General Kolesnik, chief developer of the assault on Amin's palace in Afghanistan. In 1979, Kolesnik led the formation and training of the 154th separate special forces detachment, which carried out special missions in Afghanistan. In 1982-92 Kolesnik served as head of the special intelligence department of the GRU of the General Staff of the USSR Armed Forces.
November 5, 2002 dies in a car accident Lieutenant General Shatokhin, former Commander of Aviation of the Federal border service Russia. After being transferred to the reserve, Shatokhin worked as a deputy CEO JSC "Aviazapchast"
On November 15, 2002, a car of the Federal Special Construction Service (FSSS) of the Russian Federation comes under fire in Grozny. In it was Lieutenant General Shifrin, Head of the Military Operational and Recovery Directorate of Communications of the FSSS. Shifrin died from his wounds.
November 17, 2002 dies General of the Army Maximov. In 1967-69 he was a military adviser in Yemen, in 1979 he was appointed commander of the Turkestan military district. Since 1984 Commander-in-Chief of the Southern Strategic Direction. Since 1985 Commander-in-Chief Rocket troops Strategic Purpose (RVSN), Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR. Since 1991 Commander-in-Chief of the USSR Strategic Deterrence Forces. 1992 - Commander of the Strategic Forces of the Joint Armed Forces of the CIS.
Colonel General Trofimov(1995-97 - Head of the FSB Department for Moscow and the Moscow Region) was shot along with his wife on April 10, 2005, not far from his home. The killer wore a mask and acted professionally, using a silenced pistol. The murder was not solved, but the former head of the FSB department for Moscow, Savostyanov, and the then-living Litvinenko were sure that the general was killed for political reasons.
In December 2007, the first deputy head of the counterintelligence service of the central apparatus of the FSB died suddenly from "unforeseen cardiac arrest and an accompanying heart attack". Colonel General Valery Pechenkin. There is a version that the general was personally involved in the failed operation to destroy Alexander Litvinenko in London in November 2006.
February 21, 2008 Colonel General Vlasov, and about. head of the Construction and Quartering Service of the Moscow Region, shot himself in his office.
Colonel General Troshev, commander of military operations in Chechnya and Dagestan (1995-2002) died on September 14, 2008 in a Boeing-737-500 plane crash near Perm.
On December 29, 2008, the deputy chief of staff of the North Caucasus Regional Command of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation was killed in Makhachkala, Major General Lipinsky"Niva" Lipinsky was fired upon by unknown people. The general was wounded in the chest, after which he was taken to the hospital, where he died from blood loss.
On February 22, 2009, a body was found in a Toyota Land Cruiser SUV parked next to the Parisien restaurant on Leningradsky Prospekt with the engine running. Major General of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, retired Rogachev. At first, police officers assumed that Rogachev died naturally from an unidentified disease, but during a detailed examination in the morgue, experts removed a 9 mm bullet from the head of the deceased. Since Rogachev was reputed to be a very cautious person, and he was shot in his own car, it was assumed that the general was well acquainted with the killer and let him into the car himself.
June 21, 2009 in Moscow dies Major General Petrov, leader of the KPE party and head of the opposition project "Concept of Public Security" (KOB). Petrov at one time participated in the development and testing of the Energia-Buran space system. Despite the official version of natural death, supporters of General Petrov to this day claim that he was poisoned.
Major General Ivanov, Deputy Chief of the GRU of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, dies under very mysterious circumstances. Ivanov's corpse was discovered on August 16, 2010 (this year will be fatal for many generals). The decomposed body was found on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea by the inhabitants of a coastal village in Turkey. The last time the general was seen alive was on the opposite coast - in Syria, when he visited a construction site in the notorious city of Tartus, where at that time the construction of new facilities for the Russian naval base of the Black Sea Fleet was underway. After visiting the base in Tartus, Ivanov went to meet with Syrian intelligence officers. Somewhere around this time, he disappeared. It should be noted that Ivanov was actually the second person in the Russian military intelligence department of the GRU. Allegedly, he was the organizer of a series of murders of Chechens living abroad. Yuri Ivanov is also associated with the Tu-154 plane crash in Smolensk, which killed the President of Poland Lech Kaczynski, almost the entire military command of Poland, as well as a number of Polish politicians and public figures.
October 4, 2010 Major General Chevrizov, the former head of the intelligence department of the main command of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, shot himself in the head with a premium pistol in his own entrance on Veernaya Street in Moscow. It is noteworthy that in the Chechen war, Chevrizov served as deputy head of the intelligence department for the command and use of special forces. A few days later, after Chevrizov, FSB Lieutenant Colonel Boris Smirnov shot himself in his garage in the north of Moscow.
Lieutenant General Dubrov On October 28, 2010, he suddenly dies, falling from a platform under an electric train in the Balashikha district of the Moscow region. Dubrov served as chairman of the presidium of the Russian Anti-Fascist Committee and was a member of the coordinating council of military-patriotic public organizations in Russia. Earlier, in February 2010, under the chairmanship of General Dubrov, an All-Russian Officers' Conference was held, at which a decision was made to begin preparations for the removal of the Putin-Medvedev regime. On November 7, Dubrov was supposed to speak at the rally "Army against Serdyukov" (at that time Serdyukov was the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation). It is noteworthy that not only Dubrov, but also Lieutenant General Debashvili, who will be found dead in the center of Moscow, and Lieutenant General Shamanov, which on October 30 will get into a car accident in Tula.
October 30, 2010 body Lieutenant General Debashvili was found at house number 28 on Komsomolsky Prospekt in the center of Moscow.
Colonel General Achalov died "after a severe and prolonged illness" on June 23, 2011. Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR (1990-1991), Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation (September 22-October 4, 1993). Achalov was always known for his uncompromising attitude towards the regime. In the autumn of 1993, Achalov was among the leaders of the uprising that began in Moscow after the blockade of the deputies of the Supreme Soviet of Russia. After the uprising, he was arrested, but released under an amnesty in 1994. Later he demanded the dismissal of Serdyukov, was one of the main organizers of the November rally in 2010, before which Generals Dubrov, Chevrizov and Debashvili died under mysterious circumstances, and General Shamanov survived, but from - due to injuries received in a car accident, he ended up in the hospital and could not come.
August 26, 2011 Major General Morev found dead in his office with a bullet in his head. Morev served as head of the FSB department of the Tver region. Prior to that, Morev was the head of the FSB of Russia in the Republic of Sakha-Yakutia.
Lieutenant General Shebarshin, head of foreign intelligence of the USSR (from 02/06/1989 to 09/22/1991), and. about. Chairman of the KGB of the USSR (from August 22 to 23, 1991), on March 30, 2012, in his apartment on 2nd Tverskaya-Yamskaya, he committed suicide by shooting himself with a premium pistol. Shebarshin graduated from MGIMO, knew four languages, worked in India, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan. Shebarshin was Putin's boss during his tenure at the PGU KGB.
Army General Grachev, Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation (1992-1996), died on September 23, 2012 at the Central Military Clinical Hospital. Vishnevsky. The cause of death was either a stroke, or poisoning, or from an incurable disease that tormented the general for a long time. In the official report of the Ministry of Defense, it was said that Grachev died of acute meningoencephalitis. General Grachev was an epic personality, a man who prepared the State Emergency Committee, but at the last moment defected to Yeltsin, then shot the White House in 1993, led the withdrawal of troops from Eastern Europe, negotiated the reduction of the nuclear arsenal, led the entry of troops into the territory of Transnistria, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, as well as the transfer of Russian peacekeepers to Bosnia; under him was the First Chechen War. General Grachev, of course, knew a lot, and he took this knowledge with him to the grave, without writing a single line of memoirs after his resignation.
In December 2012, during the mysterious plane crash of a private Robinson R-44 helicopter, the head of the intelligence department of the counterintelligence service of the central office of the FSB of Russia was killed. Lieutenant General Oleg Skopintsev, called in most reports of this incident in the media simply "a resident of Moscow." The main focus of this incident was shifted towards the shady businessman Fyodor Tsarev (known in criminal circles under the nickname Peat Tsar), in whose company the general was on board the helicopter. Also during the crash, Vasily Petrov, the son of the ex-head of the Federal Property Management Agency, was on board the helicopter, whose name the FSB also tried to classify. All three died.
April 19, 2013 committed suicide Major General of the Strategic Missile Forces Bondarev, Lecturer at the Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Bondarev hanged himself in the bathroom of his own apartment.
On the night of January 3, 2014, he shot himself in his apartment in St. Petersburg Vice Admiral Ustimenko, former deputy commander of the Northern Fleet of the Russian Navy.
February 7, 2014 attempted suicide Rear Admiral of the Navy Apanasenko, who shot himself in the head with a premium pistol. He died in the hospital a few days later. Apanasenko's daughter said that the reason for the suicide was the lack of painkillers from her father, who had cancer.
March 18, 2014 Major General of the Armed Forces of the USSR, retired Saplin committed suicide by shooting himself with an award pistol. It was reported that Saplin complained of terrible pain in his head caused by cancer of the last stage. There was also a suicide note about it.
GRU Major General Gudkov shot himself with an award pistol on June 8, 2014 in the south of Moscow. Gudkov "suffered from a serious illness and committed suicide from depression."
June 16, 2014 Police Major General Kolesnikov(2012-1014 - Deputy Head of the Main Directorate for Economic Security and Anti-Corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia) committed suicide right during interrogation, throwing himself from the 6th floor of the building of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. The causes and circumstances of his death have not been fully elucidated to this day.
On July 21, 2014, a body was found in an office Major General Mishanin with a deadly gunshot wound to the head. Mishanin has served as military commissar of the Nizhny Novgorod region since 2010. Prior to that, he commanded the 205th separate motorized rifle brigade and the 122nd motorized rifle division. The cause of death was listed as suicide.
On January 3, 2015, he was found in his office with a fatal wound to the head Major General Buchnev, Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Mari El. According to investigators, he committed suicide by shooting himself with a premium pistol.
January 6, 2015 hanged himself with a shoelace air force lieutenant general Kudryavtsev "from unbearable pain" due to cancer.
Major General Shushukin, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Airborne Forces of the Russian Federation, died on December 27, 2015 "from cardiac arrest." It was General Shushukin who carried out combat planning and commanded the annexation of Crimea in 2014. He also has experience of participating in military operations in the North Caucasus and Yugoslavia.
Colonel General Sergun, Chief of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, according to the official version of the Russian authorities, died suddenly of a massive heart attack on January 3, 2016.
"The position of Sergun speaks for itself, however, it should be noted that Sergun is directly related not only to the annexation of Crimea, but also to the planning of the entire operation against Ukraine. On his account, he is preparing the ground for the capture of cities throughout the southeast of the country, so is the occupation by the Russian troops and their mercenaries of parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, which, under the strict leadership of Sergun, turned into self-proclaimed pseudo-republics of the "DNR" and "LNR", where violence, robbery, looting and human trafficking continue to this day. Sergun's name also makes sense associated with the downing of the Boeing-777 flight MH17, which was shot down by a surface-to-air missile in the Torez region on July 17, 2014. Contrary to the official statement by the Russian side that Sergun died of acute heart failure in the Moscow region, an American private intelligence and analytical company Stratfor reported that according to its records, Sergun actually died in Lebanon on January 1, 2016.
“The list is not complete and can be supplemented. There is every reason to believe that after each significant operation, the Kremlin conducts a series of sweeps in the apparatus of the top military leadership. The scale of Russia’s war crimes in Syria and Ukraine suggests that another “general’s starfall” is just beginning. Russian generals are left with two options: to run away and ask for political asylum, having told the details of war crimes during a military tribunal, or to become another "parachutist" or die in a noose "from cancer". There is always a choice...", the authors summarize.
Volunteers of the InformNapalm international community have compiled a list of deaths of generals and admirals of post-Soviet Russia, which occurred under circumstances that have not been fully clarified. The list includes both the military and representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the FSB, and the GRU. The authors of the selection emphasize that the list is not complete and may be supplemented. Of the 42 generals who have died under dubious circumstances over the past 25 years, volunteers say only three may have died of natural causes. 14 Russian generals shot themselves or were shot dead, 10 died in road accidents, two hanged themselves and 13 were found dead in other circumstances.
Colonel General Yuri Gusev died in a car accident November 30, 1992 in Moscow. There were persistent rumors that in fact it was a planned murder, because seconds before the accident, Gusev's driver suddenly lost consciousness. The cause of the sudden malaise of the driver has not been established.
In February 1993, the head of the military counterintelligence department of the Pacific Fleet, Rear Admiral Nikolai Yegorkin died in a car accident near Vladivostok on the way to the airport.
On July 21, 1995, the last Minister of Internal Affairs of the USSR (1991) and Minister of Security of the Russian Federation (1992-1993) General of the Army Viktor Barannikov died at his dacha from a stroke. Prior to that, in 1993, he managed to sit in Lefortovo for organizing riots.
On May 22, 1996, one of the leaders of the GRU of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Major General Alexander Lomanov died as a result of a car collision drunken police officer.
June 18, 1996 Major General of the Armored Forces Anatoly Volkov committed suicide. He shot himself with an award pistol, which Boris Yeltsin handed him. During his lifetime, Volkov was deputy head of the Main Directorate of the Cossack troops, a member of the temporary monitoring commission for the settlement of the military conflict in Chechnya, and also oversaw the exchange of prisoners.
May 5, 1997 Major General of the GRU of the General Staff of the Russian Federation Viktor Shipilov committed suicide. He jumped out of the window of his apartment. He did not leave a posthumous note, however, according to investigators, the cause was Shipilov's mental disorder, which manifested itself after the general's return from Yugoslavia.
On the night of July 3, 1998 found shot dead in his own dacha, Lieutenant-General Lev Rokhlin, who led the capture of the presidential palace and a number of districts in Grozny. In 1997, Rokhlin created his own political movement, was in opposition to the authorities, according to some rumors, he was planning a military overthrow, according to others, Yeltsin's impeachment. His own wife was accused of killing the general.
In the same July 1998, Deputy Head of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Major General Boris Baturin died in a car accident. Some Russian media linked his death to the investigation into the murder of journalist Dmitry Kholodov, who seriously developed the topic of corruption in the Russian Ministry of Defense.
In August 1999, in the Moscow region, the head of the GRU department, Major General Ivan Shalaev died in a car accident. Official version- lost control of the vehicle.
2002 was a fatal year for the generals. April 2002 Lieutenant General Alexander Lebed died in a plane crash. In June General of the Army Petr Ivashutin died of a heart attack, and in September Major General Valery Gertsev died in a car accident.
In the same September "Random fellow traveler" shot and killed Major General of the Federal Border Service Vladimir Platoshin from his own pistol. Also in September, Major General Victor Shevelev - burned down in his own car while trying to rob his dacha.
Major General died in October Vasily Kolesnik. In November died in a car accident Lieutenant General Yuri Shatokhin. 10 days after this death in Grozny fired at the car of Lieutenant General Igor Shifrin- none of the passengers survived. On November 17, 2002, the general of the army died Yuri Maksimov- Relatives claimed that he was aged and had been ill for a long time.
In 2008 in his office Colonel-General Viktor Vlasov shot himself who was in charge of military construction.
In September 2008 Colonel-General Gennady Troshev died in a plane crash. And in December of the same year, unknown fired at the car of Major General of the Internal Troops Valery Lipinsky He died of blood loss on the way to the hospital.
In 2009, a body was found in his own car in Moscow FSB Major General Alexander Rogachev, who was shot dead. The culprit was never found.
Summer 2009 in Moscow Major General Konstantin Petrov died. The official version of the investigation is a natural death, but relatives of the military leader claim that he was poisoned.
2010 again became fatal for a whole galaxy of generals. In August, Major General, Deputy Chief of the GRU of the General Staff of the Russian Federation, died under mysterious circumstances. Yuri Ivanov- his half-decomposed body was found on the coast of Turkey, although he was last seen in Syria. Ivanov is associated with the Tu-154 plane crash in Smolensk, which killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski.
In October shot himself a bullet in the forehead, Major General of the Internal Troops Viktor Chevrizov.
At the end of October fell from the platform under the wheels of the train Lieutenant-General Georgy Dubrov. A few days apart found the body of Lieutenant General Boris Debashvili, and at the same time near Tula was in a car accident Lieutenant General Vladimir Shamanov. Interestingly, all three generals were oppositionists and were going to speak at a rally against the then Minister of Defense in a few days.
In July 2011 after a serious illness, Colonel General Vladislav Achalov died- he was called a rebel general for criticizing the ruling regime.
In August of the same year in his own office Major General Konstantin Morev shot himself, who led the FSB in the Tver region.
In 2012 Lieutenant General Leonid Shebarshin shot himself, head of foreign intelligence under the Soviet Socialist Republic and former leader Vladimir Putin during his work in the KGB.
Former Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Pavel Grachev died in a military hospital in September 2012. The documents show a serious illness, but relatives say that Grachev was poisoned.
April 2013 in your own bathroom Major General of the Strategic Missile Forces Vasily Bondarev hanged himself.
In January 2013 in his own apartment Vice Admiral Yury Ustimenko shot himself, former deputy commander of the Northern Fleet. A month later shot himself in the head by Rear Admiral of the Navy Vyacheslav Apanasenko. However, the shot was unsuccessful and he died already in the hospital. Apanasenko's daughter said that the reason for the suicide was the lack of painkillers from her father, who had cancer.
In March of the same year retired major general Boris Saplin shot himself- it was reported that the general had last stage cancer, he suffered from severe pain, before his death he left a note about this.
In June 2014 from my own pistol shot himself GRU Major General Viktor Gudkov. The official cause of death is suicide due to severe illness and depression.
A week later, right during the interrogation from the window of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation police major general Viktor Kolesnikov jumped out.
In July of the same year, it was found in the office the body of Major General Sergei Mishanin with a fatal gunshot wound to the head.
"There is every reason to believe that after each significant operation, the Kremlin conducts a series of purges in the apparatus of the top military leadership. The scale of Russia's war crimes in Syria and Ukraine suggests that the next "generals starfall" is just beginning," InformNapalm volunteers believe.
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During the New Year holidays, Igor Sergun, the head of foreign intelligence of the Ministry of Defense, died of acute heart failure in one of the rest houses in the Moscow region. However, American sources claim that Colonel General Sergun died on the territory of one of the states of the Middle East - Lebanon.
Activists of the Inform Napalm international community have prepared a list of Russian generals who died for last years. Many of the military commanders died under unclear circumstances or died suddenly from deadly diseases. Information on tragic death generals was published in the media, but the details of the death of military commanders are shrouded in secrets.
On February 22, 2009, on Leningradsky Prospekt in Moscow, in a Toyota Land Cruiser SUV parked next to the Parisien restaurant, the body of retired FSB Major General Alexander Rogachev was found. Initially, law enforcement officers assumed that the man died of natural causes, but a more detailed examination showed that the retired military man was shot in the head, and the deceased knew his executioner well and let him into the car himself.
Rogachev was ex-husband ex-senator Marina Rogacheva - daughter former governor Oryol region Egor Stroev.
In the summer of the same year, Major General, leader of the KPE party and head of the opposition project "Concept of Public Security" (KOB), Konstantin Petrov, died in the capital. According to official data, the cause of his death was a long illness, but Petrov's supporters are sure that he was killed.
According to one version, the death of the general is the result of a planned special operation by the CIA. According to media reports, shortly before his death, he met with three Americans who introduced themselves as journalists from Washington. Allegedly, they asked to record the interview. After some time, Petrov fell seriously ill and soon died.
Major General Yuri Ivanov was the Deputy Chief of the GRU of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. He died on August 16, 2010. His body was found on the Mediterranean coast in Turkey. It was reported that after visiting the naval base of the Black Sea Fleet in Tartus, the general went to meet with Syrian intelligence officers and disappeared.
On October 4, 2010, Major General Viktor Chevrizov, the former head of the intelligence department of the main command of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, shot himself with an award pistol in his own entrance on Veernaya Street in Moscow.
Literally a few days after Chevrizov, FSB Lieutenant Colonel Boris Smirnov shot himself in his garage in the north of Moscow.
His death continues to be shrouded in rumors. In particular, US intelligence reported that Sergun died not in a rest home in the Moscow region from heart failure, but in Lebanon for an unknown reason. The Kremlin denied this information.
