Biography Valentin Varennikov

Valentin Ivanovich Valentin on December 15, Krasnodar - May 6, Moscow - Soviet military leader and Russian politician, Army General Veteran of the Great Patriotic War. Hero of the Soviet Union Valentin Ivanovich Varennikov was born on December 15 in the city of Krasnodar. Father - Varennikov Ivan Evmenovich -, a participant in the civil war. He graduated from an industrial disademy in Moscow, held various leadership posts on the economic work.

Mother - Varerennikova Maria Alekseevna - wife - Varennikova Elena Tikhonovna -, senior lieutenant in retired, veteran of war. Sons: Valery Valentinovich Valentinnikov G. Since the year, the family has lived in Armavir. He graduated from high school in the year. In August, he was drafted by the Armavir Military Commissariat for the Red Army and was sent to the Cherkasy Infantry School evacuated to Sverdlovsk, since October the first military set began to classes.

After the accelerated graduation of the school in the summer of the year, Lieutenant Varennikov, among the few graduates, the rest went straight to the front, was appointed commander of a training platoon to a reserve shooting brigade, deployed in Gorky, and only in October is on the Stalingrad Front as the commander of the mortar mortar mortar mortar division.

He fought in Stalingrad for 79 days and nights. In November, Varennikov was appointed commander of the battery, in December of the same year participated in the division in the destruction of the surrounded units of the 6th Army General Field Marshal Paulus. In January, he was wounded. After recovery, he returned to duty, enrolled in the operational department of the Guards Rifle Division of the 8th Guards Army.

Since March, the commander of the mortar battery of the Guards Rifle Regiment, and in the spring of the year, Senior Lieutenant Varennikov was appointed deputy commander of the Guards Rifle Regiment of the Guards Rifle Division in Artillery. He participated in the forcing of the Dnieper, fought for the liberation of Belarus and Poland. When the 8th Guards Army was transferred to the 1st Belorussian Front, Varennikov and his regiment participated in the famous Belarusian offensive operation "Bagration".

At the end of July and early August, he entered the Polish land and fought for the capture of the bridgehead in the Vistula south of Warsaw in the Magnushev region. He was seriously wounded there and was treated in the hospital for four months. Then he returned to his native Guards Rifle Regiment of the Guards Rifle Division as deputy commander of the regiment A. Voinkov in artillery and in the mid -January of the year participated in the offensive of the Soviet troops from the Baltic to the Carpathians.

He participated in the battles for a bridgehead in the area of ​​the city of Kustin on the Oder. In March, V. Varennikov was wounded for the third time in battles for Kustin. Since March, the chief of artillery of the Guards Rifle Regiment of the Guards Rifle Division. In April - May, in the rank of captain, he took a direct part in the Berlin operation. He stormed Zeelov’s heights, took Berlin - on the morning of May 2 was in the building of the Reichstag.

During the war he was wounded three times, awarded four military orders. In June, he participated in the Victory Parade, and immediately in front of the parade, being the head of the honorary guard, took the banner of victory at the central airfield. The Great Patriotic War ended with the rank of captain. At the front, he met Elena-Olga Tikhonovna-who became Valentina Ivanovich’s wife for a lifetime.

After the war, he remained in the army, held a number of command posts, graduated from the Military Academy named after M. Voroshilov with a gold medal, the highest academic courses of the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces named after K. Voroshilov was appointed deputy commander of the regiment in the year, then sequentially commanded four regiments in the Northern Military District.

In the year he was appointed deputy commander of the motorized rifle division. From the year, he was the commander of the Mazur motorized rifle division of Kandalaksha, Lenvo, with the commander of the civil defense of the army corps of Lenvo. Colonel General 2. In connection with military conflicts and Soviet participation in them, he visited Angola, Syria, Ethiopia and Afghanistan.

He was the main organizer of the work of military units to eliminate the consequences of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. He was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

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