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Yury Grekov
Native name
Юрий Павлович Греков
Birth nameYury Pavlovich Grekov
Born(1943-09-13)13 September 1943
Kulotino, Okulovsky District, Leningrad Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR
Died18 April 2024(2024-04-18) (aged 80)
Yekaterinburg, Russia
Allegiance Soviet Union
 Russia
Service/branch Russian Ground Forces
Years of service1962–2000
RankColonel general
Commands heldUral Military District
Battles/warsSoviet–Afghan War
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

Colonel General Yury Pavlovich Grekov (Russian: Юрий Павлович Греков; 13 September 1943 – 18 April 2024) was a Russian army officer who served as the commander of the Ural Military District from 1992 to 1999.

Biography

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Yury Grekov was born on 13 September 1943.[1] He joined the Soviet Army in 1962. He graduated from the Leningrad Higher Combined Arms Command School named after S. M. Kirov in 1966.[1]

From 1966 to 1971, he served as a platoon commander and company commander in the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany.[2]

Grekov graduated from the Military Academy named after M.V. Frunze in 1974.[2] From 1974 to 1983 - deputy regiment commander, chief of staff of the regiment, regiment commander, deputy division commander, division commander in the Trans-Baikal Military District.[2]

Grekov graduated from the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR named after K. E. Voroshilov in 1985.[2]

From 1985, he was Chief of Staff and First Deputy Army Commander in the Leningrad Military District.[2]

In 1986, he was the Chief of Staff - First Deputy Commander of the 40th Army as part of a limited contingent of Soviet troops in Afghanistan.[2][1]

For two years he actively participated in the combat operations of Soviet troops in Afghanistan.[2][1]

In 1988, he was the commander of the 11th Guards Army in the Baltic Military District.[2] In 1989, he was the first deputy commander of the Transcaucasian Military District, participated in the localization of the Armenian-Azerbaijani armed conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.[2]

On 16 July 1992, Grekov became the commander of the troops of the Ural Military District.[1] In December 1999, he was replaced by Vyacheslav Tikhomirov.[1][3][2]

Since January 2000, he was in reserve, and had been an advisor to the Governor of Sverdlovsk Oblast.[2][4][1]

Personal life and death

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Grekov lived in Yekaterinburg. He died on 18 April 2024, at the age of 80.[5][3]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g "Персональные страницы | Уральская региональная общественная организация по развитию связей с земляками". www.urcountry.ru. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "В возрасте 80 лет скончался экс-командующий Уральским военным округом Греков". Коммерсантъ (in Russian). 19 April 2024. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
  3. ^ a b "Умер экс-командующий войсками Уральского военного округа Юрий Греков". TACC (in Russian). Retrieved 18 July 2024.
  4. ^ "Ушел из жизни бывший командующий войсками Уральского военного округа Юрий Греков". ural.business-magazine.online (in Russian). Retrieved 18 July 2024.
  5. ^ rsva-ural. "Прощай, наш боевой командир… — Российский союз ветеранов Афганистана" (in Russian). Retrieved 20 April 2024.