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Lieutenant-General Kolmakov, Aleksander

 

Commander, Airborne Troops

 

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  • Born in Kaliningrad, Moscow Oblast, on July 31 1995.  

Education:

  • 1976 -- Ryazan Advanced Airborne Command School;
  • 1985 -- Frunze Military Academy;
  • 1995 -- General Staff Academy.

Career

  • Reconnaissance platoon commander, deputy company commander for airborne training, a company commander, and a battalion executive officer.
  • Participated in combat operations in Afghanistan.
  • Airborne battalion and regimental commander
  • Commander, 106th Airborne Division
  • Deputy Commander, 22nd Combined-Arms Army, deployed in Nizhny Novgorod.
  • In 1998 became commander of the 35th Army, deployed in the Russian Far East.
  • November 2000 appointed deputy commander of the Far East Military District.
  • 8 September 2003 appointed commander of the Airborne Troops under a presidential decree (Agentstvo Voyennykh Novostey, 12 Sep 03).