In the 76th year, General of the Army Anatoly Kvashnin passed away. As it became known, for a month the military leader was fighting the coronavirus, and on the night of January 7, he died of a heart attack. Kvashnin has built the most successful career in the history of the country's armed forces among graduates of civilian universities. Read more about his biography in our material. Former Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Anatoly Kvashnin died last night in the Main Military Clinical Hospital. N.N. Burdenko. He was 75 years old. The death of the general was announced by a source in the military on Friday, January 7.

“Anatoly Vasilyevich lay with COVID-19 for a month, his condition worsened. Yesterday it worsened so much that he was transported to Burdenko and almost began to prepare for the operation. And at night he died of a heart attack, "- said the source.

In 1997-2004, Kvashnin served as Chief of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces - First Deputy Minister of Defense. Later, he was the plenipotentiary representative of the president in the Siberian Federal District, from this position he was dismissed in 2010.

The most successful career

Kvashnin was born on August 15, 1946 in Ufa. In 1964 he graduated from high school number 1 in the city of Dalmatovo, Kurgan region and entered the automotive faculty of the Kurgan Mechanical Engineering Institute.

In July 1969 he was drafted into the Soviet Army for a period of two years as a graduate of a higher educational institution with a military department. In August, Lieutenant Kvashnin arrived in Dushanbe with the 201st motorized rifle division of the Turkestan military district, where he was appointed to the 401st tank regiment as deputy commander of a tank company for technical matters. Already on December 26, 1969, he was appointed commander of a tank company. In 1971, after the expiration of the draft, he extended his service according to the report, was enlisted in the regular officer corps of the Soviet Army and was appointed deputy commander of a tank company for the technical part.

In 1976, Kvashnin graduated from the Military Academy of Armored Forces named after Marshal of the Soviet Union R. Ya. Malinovsky with honors, and in 1989 - also with honors from the Military Academy of the General Staff of the USSR Armed Forces named after K. E. Voroshilov.

With the beginning of the operation to restore constitutional order in the Chechen Republic, Kvashnin was in the combat zone, where, after the removal of the commander of the United Group of Russian Forces, Colonel-General Alexei Mityukhin, volunteered to lead this group (from December 20, 1994 to January 31, 1995).

“It so happened that some generals - my assistants, deputies - for various reasons refused or could not lead the group, to conduct hostilities. I don’t want to name their names ... Therefore, I am grateful to the same General of the Army Kvashnin, who then approached me and said: “Comrade Minister, if you will allow me, I am ready to take command ...” - this is how Defense Minister Pavel recalled the circumstances of this appointment. Grachev.

On April 10, 2003, Kvashnin announced the withdrawal of Russian peacekeepers from Kosovo.

From September 2004 he was retired, and from August 15, 2011 - retired.

According to the Bashinform agency, Kvashnin built the most successful career in the history of the country's armed forces among graduates of civilian universities, having completed all stages of army positions from deputy commander of a tank company to chief of the General Staff - first deputy defense minister of the Russian Federation.

From August 2013 to 2015, he was also the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Aviasoyuz Association of Small and Regional Aviation. With the transition to civil service, Anatoly Vasilyevich and his wife Natalya Petrovna moved to Novosibirsk.

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