Background
- Born in
- Tula
- Educated at
- Orlov Tank SchoolMilitary Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia
- Awards
- 🏆 Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"🏆 Order of the Red Star🏆 Medal "For the Capture of Berlin"🏆 Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"🏆 Jubilee Medal "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy"
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1911
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Birth1982
Died
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