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The editors of TASS-DOSSIER have compiled a chronology of deaths 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 the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA, now - Islamic Republic Afghanistan), two Russian generals in North Ossetia, four in the Chechen Republic.

Afghanistan

All three generals killed in the Afghan conflict were representatives of the 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), the deputy commander of the Air Force of the Turkestan Military District, Major General Vadim Khakhalov, was killed in a Mi-8T helicopter shot down by dushmans. In order to remove the general's body, it was necessary to carry out a special combat 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 and head of the combat operations control group in the DRA, died. The Afghan Air Force Mi-8 helicopter, with Shkidchenko on board, was fired from the ground 16 km from the city of Khost (southeast of the country), made an emergency landing and burned out. In addition to the lieutenant general, four Soviet pilots were killed on board. On July 4, 2000, Pyotr 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, Aviation Major General Nikolai Vlasov, died. During a combat mission 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 by parachute, according to another, he was killed while trying to capture him on the ground). 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 adviser to the commander of the artillery of the Afghan Armed Forces, Major General Leonid Tsukanov, died in Afghanistan from natural causes.

North Ossetia

August 1, 1993 in the area of Tarskoe (Prigorodny district of North Ossetia) was shot from an ambush a car, in which the participants in the negotiations to resolve the Ossetian-Ingush conflict moved.

The commander of the 42nd Army Corps of the North Caucasus Military District (NCVO), 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 anti-terrorist group "Alpha" of the Federal Counterintelligence Service (FSK) of Russia, senior lieutenant Viktor Kravchuk, were killed. four more were injured. Major General Anatoly Koretsky was posthumously awarded the Order "For Personal Courage". The criminals could not be found.

April 16, 1998 on the Mozdok-Vladikavkaz highway in the Khurikau pass area of ​​the Sunzhensky mountain range ( North Ossetia) during the shelling of the convoy, the deputy head of the Main Operations 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 Caucasus Military District, deputy commander of the group of federal troops “North” in the Chechen Republic, Major General Mikhail Malofeev, was killed in a shootout with militants. He was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation.

September 17, 2001 on the eastern outskirts of Grozny Chechen fighters The Mi-8 helicopter of the Russian Ministry of Defense was shot down by the Igla MANPADS. 13 people died on board, including the head of the 2nd directorate of the Main Operations Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Major General Anatoly Pozdnyakov, and the deputy head of the Main Personnel Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Major General Pavel Varfolomeev. Both were in Chechnya as part of the General Staff commission. The militants who fired on the helicopter were subsequently arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment.

November 29, 2001 15-year-old suicide bomber Aizan Gazueva committed a suicide bombing in one of the squares of Urus-Martan, when a meeting was being held there between the military commandant of the city, Major General Gaidar Gadzhiev, and local residents. Gadzhiev received severe wounds from which he died on December 1, 2001 in a military hospital in Mozdok.

Besides, March 6, 2000 in the village Vedeno (Chechnya) on command post The commander of the group died from acute heart failure Marine Corps Russian Navy in the North Caucasus, Major General Alexander Otrakovsky. For services to his homeland 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 in the North Caucasus (were killed or died from natural causes during hostilities).

During the “New Year holidays,” the head of foreign intelligence of the Ministry of Defense, Igor Sergun, died of acute heart failure in one of the rest homes in the Moscow region. However, American sources claim that Colonel General Sergun died on the territory of one of the Middle East states - Lebanon.

Activists of the international community Inform Napalm 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 fatal diseases. Information about tragic death generals was published in the media, but the details of the death of military commanders are shrouded in mystery.

On February 22, 2009, on Leningradsky Prospekt in Moscow, the body of retired FSB Major General Alexander Rogachev was found in a Toyota Land Cruiser SUV parked next to the Parisien restaurant. Initially, law enforcement officers assumed that the man died due to natural reasons, however, a more detailed examination showed that the retired military man was shot in the head, and the deceased knew his executioner well and himself let him into the car.

Rogachev was ex-husband ex-senator Marina Rogacheva - daughter of the former governor of the Oryol region Yegor 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 general's death 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. They allegedly asked to record the interview. After some time, Petrov fell seriously ill and soon died.

Major General Yuri Ivanov was Deputy Chief of the GRU General Staff Armed Forces RF. He died on August 16, 2010. His body was found on the shore Mediterranean Sea in Turkey. It was reported that after visiting the Black Sea Fleet naval base in Tartus, the general went to a meeting with Syrian intelligence officers and disappeared.

Former head of the intelligence department of the Main Command of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Major General Viktor Chevrizov, on October 4, 2010, shot himself with an award pistol in his own entrance on Veernaya Street in Moscow.

Literally a few days after Chevrizov, FSBB 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.

Amid the ongoing discord in relations between Ukraine and Russia, a list of Russian generals who have died in recent years has been prepared. As it turns out, most of the military leaders shot themselves, died under unclear circumstances, or died suddenly from fatal diseases. Moreover, information about the tragic death of generals was often published in the media, but few people knew the results of official investigations.

On February 22, 2009, on Leningradsky Prospekt in Moscow, the body of a retired major general of the FSB of the Russian Federation was found in a Toyota Land Cruiser SUV parked next to the Parisien restaurant. Alexandra Rogacheva. 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 himself let him into the car.

Rogachev was the ex-husband of ex-senator Marina Rogacheva, the daughter of the former governor of the Oryol region, Yegor Stroev.

In the summer of the same year, a major general, leader of the KPE party and head of the opposition project “Concept of Public Security” (KOB) died in the capital.Konstantin Petrov. 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 general's death 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. They allegedly asked to record the interview. After some time, Petrov fell seriously ill and soon died.

Major General Yuri Ivanov was 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 Black Sea Fleet naval base in Tartus, the general went to a meeting with Syrian intelligence officers and disappeared.

Former head of the intelligence department of the Main Command of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation major general Victor Chevrizov October 4, 2010, shot himself from award pistol in his own entrance on Veernaya Street in Moscow.

Just a few days after Chevrizov, an FSB lieutenant colonel shot himself in his garage in the north of Moscow. Boris Smirnov.

On October 28, 2010, he fell under an electric train. lieutenant general Grigory Dubrov .

Two days later, Lieutenant General was found dead in the center of Moscow Boris Debashvili.

August 26, 2011 Major General, Head of the FSB Directorate for the Tver RegionKonstantin Morev shot himself in his office.

Lieutenant General Leonid Shebarshin, who at one time held the position of chief of foreign intelligence of the USSR (from 02/06/1989 to 09/22/1991), and. O. Chairman of the KGB of the USSR (from August 22 to 23, 1991), committed suicide on March 30, 2012, shooting himself with an award pistol in his apartment on 2nd Tverskaya-Yamskaya.

On September 23, 2012, the General of the Army, Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation (1992-1996) passed away Pavel Gracheva. He was taken to the hospital with a severe hypertensive crisis with cerebral manifestations, but there were rumors that he was poisoned.

On April 19, 2013, Major General of the Strategic Missile Forces hanged himself in his own bathroom Vasily Bondarev.

On the night of January 3, 2014, the former deputy commander of the Northern Fleet of the Russian Navy shot himself in his apartment in the Northern capital. vice admiral Yuri Ustimenko .

On February 7, 2014, a Navy rear admiral attempted suicide Vyacheslav Apanasenko. The man shot himself in the head with an award pistol and died a few days later in the hospital. Then it was reported that Apanasenko suffered from cancer, and could not endure terrible pain, and was also left without painkillers.

On March 18, 2014, a similar suicide occurred - retired Major General of the USSR Armed Forces Boris Saplin shot himself with an award pistol, tired of enduring terrible pain in his head caused by terminal cancer.

On June 8, 2014, GRU Major General also shot himself with a medal pistol. Victor Gudkov suffering from depression caused by illness.

Major General of Police Boris Kolesnikov, who in 2012-1014 held the post of deputy head of the Main Directorate of Economic Security and Anti-Corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, jumped from the 6th floor of the building of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation right during interrogation. It happened June 16, 2014. Before that, the general was detained on suspicion of provoking a bribe.

On July 21, 2014, the body of Major General was discovered in his office Sergei Mishanina with a fatal gunshot wound to the head.

Also in his office, but already on January 3, 2015, Major General Vyacheslav Buchnev with a similar cause of death.

Air Force Lieutenant General hanged himself on January 6, 2015 Anatoly Kudryavtsev, suffering from cancer in the last stage.

Deputy Chief of Staff of the Russian Airborne Forces Major General Alexander Shushukin diedDecember 27, 2015 as a result of “cardiac arrest.” It is noteworthy that it was he who planned and commanded the operation to reunite Crimea with Russia in 2014.

Most recently, on January 3, 2016, the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, deputy chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, died of a massive heart attack. Colonel General.

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.

“After every significant operation, the Kremlin conducts a series of purges,” - InformNapalm. PHOTO It is no secret that Russian generals often die, and not always a natural death. This is stated in an article by the international community InformNapalm, the authors of which tried to compile the most full list the most mysterious and slightly less mysterious deaths generals and admirals, which are replete with recent history Russia.

“The circumstances of the death of these people in many cases remained not fully clarified, the secrets were buried. We will give readers the right to decide for themselves which of these was an accident, which was murder, which was 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 identified two eras of rule Russian presidents", the material says.

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Marshal of the USSR, Chief of the General Staff of the USSR Armed Forces and First Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR (1984-88) Akhromeev after the failure of the putsch, the State Emergency Committee 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 method of suicide itself is striking: the military man decides not to shoot himself, but to hang himself, also in a sitting position. Secondly, according to the notes left behind, there were two suicide attempts on the same day, but there are testimonies of witnesses who saw Akhromeyev and received orders from him by telephone in the interval between the two attempts. Thirdly, one of the witnesses said that at the same interval someone entered and left Akhromeyev’s office. Fourthly, the investigator is very for a long time They were not allowed to the scene of the incident and were forbidden to take witnesses. On September 1, 1991, Marshal Akhromeyev was buried at Troekurovskoye Cemetery no 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, since Gusev’s driver suddenly lost consciousness seconds before the accident. The cause of the driver's sudden illness was never established.

In February 1993, on the way to the airport near Vladivostok, as a result of a collision between a service Volga and a ZIL, the head of the military counterintelligence department of the Pacific Fleet, Rear Admiral Yegorkin, was killed. He was heading to Moscow for a meeting of the heads of the special services and law enforcement Russia on the problems of combating organized crime and corruption.

Army General Barannikov, former Minister of Internal Affairs of the RSFSR (1990-1991), last Minister of Internal Affairs of the USSR (1991) and Minister of Security of the Russian Federation (1992-1993). Involved in the Karabakh conflict. He is also known for taking part in the arrest of the USSR Minister of Defense Yazov after the August 1991 coup. On July 21, 1995, he died at his dacha from a stroke, having previously been imprisoned in Lefortovo in 1993 for organizing mass riots in September-October 1993 G.

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 Russian Armed Forces died major general Lomanov.

June 18, 1996 committed suicide major general armored forces Volkov. He shot himself with the award pistol that Yeltsin awarded him. During his lifetime, Volkov was deputy head of the Main Directorate of Cossack Troops, a member of the temporary supervisory 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 GRU General Staff of the Russian Federation Shipilov. He jumped out of the window of his apartment in a building on the street. Krylatsky hills. He did not leave a posthumous note, but according to investigators, the cause was mental disorder Shipilov, which manifested itself after the general’s return from Yugoslavia. Since the early 90s, Shipilov held the position of military attaché in Yugoslavia (he worked during hostilities), and was involved in organizing peace negotiations during the Yugoslav conflict.

Lieutenant General Rokhlin, led the capture of the presidential palace and a number of districts in Grozny. Was the contact person for negotiating a ceasefire with the Chechens field commanders. Refused to be awarded the Hero of Russia for the successful capture of Grozny: "In civil war generals cannot gain glory. The war in Chechnya is not the glory of Russia, but its misfortune." In 1997, Rokhlin created his own political movement, is always in opposition to power, according to some rumors he is planning a military overthrow, according to others - the impeachment of Yeltsin. On the night of July 3, 1998, he was found shot dead at his own dacha. His own wife was accused of killing the general.

Also in July 1998, the deputy head of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation died in a car accident. Major General Baturin. His death is some Russian media was associated with the investigation into the murder of journalist Dmitry Kholodov, who seriously explored the topic of corruption in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. A group of servicemen from the 45th Airborne Special Forces Regiment, led by the Airborne Forces intelligence chief Popovskikh, is put on trial for the murder of Kholodov (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 within Russia and abroad. In the course of the case, the investigation turns to the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and to Baturin himself, who personally signed cover documents for the soldiers of the 45th regiment. Soon after this, Baturin dies.

On August 7, 1999, in the Stupinsky district of the Moscow region, the head of the GRU department died 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. He was awarded the rank of admiral the day before, on May 30. Ugryumov served as deputy director of the FSB and headed the Department for the Protection of the Constitutional Order and the Fight against Terrorism. Since 2001, Ugryumov has combined 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 a MI-8 helicopter crash in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. General Lebed, along with General Rokhlin, was often called the most likely candidates to lead a military rebellion 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 on the 45th kilometer of the Kyiv Highway.

Major General of the Federal Border Service Platoshin was shot dead in the interior of his Mercedes with 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 commander of the aviation of the FPS group in Tajikistan, and was also involved in the fight against drugs on the Tajik-Afghan border.

June 4, 2002 dies Army General Ivashutin. Ivashutin was 1st Deputy Chairman of the KGB of the USSR (1954-1963), acting. Chairman of the KGB of the USSR (November 5 -13, 1961), Chief of the GRU - Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the USSR Armed Forces (1963-1986). In 2002, General Ivashutin reached a very advanced age, so, most likely, he rested peacefully in God without outside interference.

Major General Shevelev was found burned 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 neighboring village. Until 1997, Shevelev worked at the Federal Agency for Government Communications and Information (FAPSI), and after that he served as deputy director of OJSC Rostelecom.

October 30, 2002 dies Major General Kolesnik, the main developer of the assault on Amin's palace in Afghanistan. In 1979, Kolesnik supervised 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 of Russia. After being transferred to the reserve, Shatokhin worked as a deputy general director JSC "Aviazapchast"

On November 15, 2002, a vehicle belonging to the Federal Special Construction Service (FSSS) of the Russian Federation comes under fire in Grozny. It contained Lieutenant General Shifrin, Head of the Military Operational and Restoration Communications Directorate of the FSSS. Shifrin died from his injuries.

November 17, 2002 dies Army General Maksimov. In 1967-69 he was a military adviser in Yemen, and 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 Forces strategic purpose(Strategic Missile Forces), Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR. Since 1991 Commander-in-Chief By strategic forces containment of the USSR. 1992 - Commander of the Strategic Forces of the United Armed Forces of the CIS.

Colonel General Trofimov(1995-97 - Head of the FSB Directorate for Moscow and the Moscow Region) was shot along with his wife on April 10, 2005 near his home. The killer wore a mask and acted professionally, using a pistol with a silencer. The murder was not solved, but the former head of the FSB Moscow Directorate Savostyanov and the then still alive 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 suddenly died from “an unexpected cardiac arrest and concomitant heart attack.” Colonel General Valery Pechenkin. There is a version that the general was personally involved in the failed operation to kill Alexander Litvinenko in London in November 2006.

February 21, 2008 Colonel General Vlasov, and about. head of the Construction and Housing Service of the Ministry of Defense, 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 in the Perm region.

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 Lipinsky's Niva was fired upon by unknown persons. The general was wounded in the chest, after which he was taken to the hospital, where he died from loss of blood.

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 FSB 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 known as a very careful 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” (CPS). 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 still 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 would be fatal for many generals). A decomposed body was found on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea by 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 well-known 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 a meeting 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, 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, in which the President of Poland Lech Kaczynski, almost the entire military command of Poland, as well as a number of Polish politicians and public figures died.

October 4, 2010 Major General Chevrizov, the former head of the intelligence department of the Main Command of the Internal Troops of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, shot himself in the head from an award pistol in his own entrance on Veernaya Street in Moscow. It is noteworthy that in the Chechen war, Chevrizov held the position of deputy head of the intelligence department for the command and use of special forces. A few days later, following 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 died after 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, an All-Russian Officers' Meeting was held under the chairmanship of General Dubrov, at which it was decided to begin actions to prepare 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 could not attend this meeting, but also Lieutenant General Debashvili, who will be found dead in the center of Moscow, and Lieutenant General Shamanov, who on October 30 gets into a car accident in Tula.

October 30, 2010 body Lieutenant General Debashvili was found near house No. 28 on Komsomolsky Prospekt in the center of Moscow.

Colonel General Achalov died “after a serious and long 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 irreconcilable position 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 of the Supreme Council 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 was taken to the hospital and was unable to 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. Before this, Morev was the head of the Russian FSB Directorate for the Republic of Sakha-Yakutia.

Lieutenant General Shebarshin, head of foreign intelligence of the USSR (from 02/06/1989 to 09/22/1991), and. O. 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 an award pistol. Shebarshin graduated from MGIMO, knew four languages, worked in India, Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Shebarshin was Putin’s boss when he worked at the KGB PGU.

Army General Grachev, Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation (1992-1996), died on September 23, 2012 at the Central Military Clinical Hospital named after. Vishnevsky. The cause of death was either a stroke, or poisoning, or an incurable disease that tormented the general long time. The official statement from the Ministry of Defense 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 of Eastern Europe, negotiated the reduction of the nuclear arsenal, led the deployment of troops into the territory of Transnistria, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, as well as the transfer of Russian peacekeepers to Bosnia; First walked with him 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 a mysterious plane crash of a private Robinson R-44 helicopter, the head of the intelligence department of the counterintelligence service of the central apparatus of the FSB of Russia was killed. Lieutenant General Oleg Skopintsev, referred to in most media reports of this incident simply as a “resident of Moscow.” The main focus of this incident was shifted towards the shady businessman Fyodor Tsarev (known in criminal circles as the Peat Tsar), in whose company the general was on board the helicopter. Also during the plane crash, the son of the ex-head of the Federal Property Management Agency, Vasily Petrov, was also on board the helicopter, whose name the FSB also tried to classify. All three died.

Committed suicide on April 19, 2013 Major General of the Strategic Missile Forces Bondarev, teacher at the Academy of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces. 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.

On February 7, 2014 he attempted suicide Rear Admiral of the Navy Apanasenko, who shot himself in the head with an award 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 for her father, who had cancer.

March 18, 2014 Major General of the USSR Armed Forces (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 terminal cancer. There was also a suicide note about this.

Major General GRU 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 of Economic Security and Anti-Corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia) committed suicide directly during interrogation, jumping from the 6th floor of the building of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. The causes and circumstances of his death are still not fully understood.

On July 21, 2014, a body was found in the office Major General Mishanin with a fatal gunshot wound to the head. Since 2010, Mishanin has held the position of military commissar of the Nizhny Novgorod region. Before 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 mortal wound to the head Major General Buchnev, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Mari El. According to investigators, he committed suicide by shooting himself with an award pistol.

On January 6, 2015, he hanged himself with a string Air Force Lieutenant General Kudryavtsev "from unbearable pain"due to cancer.

Major General Shushukin, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Russian Airborne Forces, 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 in participating in combat operations in the North Caucasus and Yugoslavia.

Colonel General Sergun, Head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, according to the official version Russian authorities died suddenly from a massive heart attack on January 3, 2016.
“Sergun’s position 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. He is responsible for preparing the ground for the seizure of cities throughout the south-east of the country, so is the occupation by Russian troops and their mercenaries of parts of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, which, under the strict leadership of Sergun, turned into the self-proclaimed pseudo-republics of the “DPR” and “LPR”, where violence, robbery, looting and human trafficking flourish to this day.The name of Sergun also has meaning associated with the crash of Boeing 777 flight MH17, which was shot down by a surface-to-air missile in the Torez area on July 17, 2014. Contrary to the official statement of 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 data, Sergun actually died in Lebanon on January 1, 2016,” the material says.

“The list is not complete and can be supplemented. There is every reason to assume that after each significant operation the Kremlin carries out a series of purges in the apparatus of the top military leadership. The scale of Russian war crimes in Syria and Ukraine suggests that the next “general’s starfall” is just beginning. For the majority "Russian generals are left with two options: to flee and ask for political asylum, telling the details of war crimes during a military tribunal, or to become another "paratrooper" or die in a noose "from cancer". There is always a choice..." the authors summarize.

Volunteers of the international community InformNapalm have compiled a list of deaths of generals and admirals in post-Soviet Russia that occurred under circumstances that have not been fully clarified. The list includes both military personnel and representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, FSB, and GRU. The authors of the collection emphasize that the list is not complete and can be supplemented. Of the 42 generals who have died under questionable circumstances over the past 25 years, only three may have died of natural causes, according to volunteers. 14 Russian generals shot themselves or were shot, 10 died in road accidents, two hanged themselves and another 13 were found dead under 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, since Gusev’s driver suddenly lost consciousness seconds before the accident. The cause of the driver's sudden illness was never established.

In February 1993, the head of the military counterintelligence department of the Pacific Fleet, Rear Admiral Nikolai Egorkin died in a car accident near Vladivostok on the way to the airport.

July 21, 1995, the last Minister of Internal Affairs of the USSR (1991) and Minister of Security of the Russian Federation (1992-1993), Army General Viktor Barannikov died of a stroke at his dacha. Before that, in 1993, he managed to serve time in Lefortovo for organizing mass 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 drunk police officer.

June 18, 1996 Major General of the Armored Forces Anatoly Volkov committed suicide. He shot himself with the award pistol that Boris Yeltsin handed him. During his lifetime, Volkov was deputy head of the Main Directorate of Cossack Troops, a member of the temporary supervisory 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 Lieutenant General Lev Rokhlin was found shot dead at his own dacha, 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 power, according to some rumors, he was planning a military overthrow, according to others, the impeachment of Yeltsin. His own wife was accused of killing the general.

Also in 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 explored 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 car.

The year 2002 was fatal for the generals. In April 2002 Lieutenant General Alexander Lebed died in a plane crash. In June, Army General Pyotr Ivashutin died of a heart attack, and in September Major General Valery Gertsev died in a car accident.

That same September A “random fellow traveler” shot and killed Major General of the Federal Border Service Vladimir Platoshin from his own pistol. Also in September, Major General died Viktor Shevelev - burned in his own car while trying to rob his dacha.

Major General died in October Vasily Kolesnik. In November Lieutenant General Yuri Shatokhin died in a car accident. 10 days after this death in Grozny fired at the car of Lieutenant General Igor Shifrin- none of the passengers survived. Army General died on November 17, 2002 Yuri Maksimov- relatives claimed that he was old and had been ill for a long time.

In 2008 in his office Colonel General Viktor Vlasov shot himself, who led 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 from loss of blood on the way to the hospital.

In 2009, a body was found in his own car in Moscow. shot dead FSB Major General Alexander Rogachev. The culprit was never found.

Summer 2009 in Moscow Major General Konstantin Petrov died. The official version of the investigation is natural death, but relatives of the military leader claim that he was poisoned.

The year 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, in which Polish President Lech Kaczynski died.

In October Major General of the Internal Troops Viktor Chevrizov put a bullet in his forehead.

At the end of October Lieutenant General Georgy Dubrov fell from the platform under the wheels of the train. Several days apart found the body of Lieutenant General Boris Debashvili, and at the same time near Tula Lieutenant General Vladimir Shamanov got into a car accident. It is interesting that 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 Colonel General Vladislav Achalov died after a serious illness- 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 headed the FSB in the Tver region.

In 2012 Lieutenant General Leonid Shebarshin shot himself, head of foreign intelligence under the USSR and former leader of Vladimir Putin during his work in the KGB.

Former Russian Defense Minister Pavel Grachev died in a military hospital in September 2012. The documents mention a serious illness, but relatives say that Grachev was poisoned.

In April 2013 in my own bathroom Major General of the Strategic Missile Forces Vasily Bondarev hanged himself.

In January 2013 in my own apartment Vice Admiral Yuri Ustimenko shot himself, former deputy commander of the Northern Fleet. A month later Navy Rear Admiral Vyacheslav Apanasenko shot himself in the head. However, the shot was unsuccessful and he died in the hospital. Apanasenko's daughter said that the reason for the suicide was the lack of painkillers for 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 the last stage of cancer, he was suffering from severe pain, before his death he left a note about this.

In June 2014, using his own pistol shot himself GRU Major General Viktor Gudkov. The official cause of death was suicide due to severe illness and depression.

A week later, right during the interrogation from the window investigative committee RF 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 carries out a series of purges in the apparatus of the top military leadership. The scale of Russian war crimes in Syria and Ukraine suggests that the next “general’s starfall” is just beginning,” InformNapalm volunteers believe.

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