Background
Evstigneev Evgeny Andreevich was born on April 2nd, 1921 in Moscow.
Evstigneev Evgeny Andreevich was born on April 2nd, 1921 in Moscow.
The war began for him already in June 1941 on the Southern Front, where he was sent, having graduated the Moscow Military Artillery Special School and the 3rd Leningrad Artillery School. In 1941-1942 he commanded the 850th artillery regiment 1st battery of the 271 infantry division, artillery of the 76-mm guns, was rifle division artillery regiment chief’s assistant. He as well took part in the battles for the Crimea. In 1942 he was transferred as chief’s assistant to the the operational division of the army artillery headquarters on the North Caucasian Front. In 1942-1943 he was the Chief of Staff, commander of a separate artillery battalion of 76-mm guns of the 103rd rifle brigade on the Transcaucasian front. In 1943, he was appointed commander of an independent artillery battalion of the 81st Red Banner Maritime Rifle Brigade, participated in the assault on the legendary Lesser Land, the liberation of Abrau-Durso and Anapa. Afterwards he was the 305th Guards Artillery Regiment division commander, participated in the landing of troops to the Crimea, to the village of Eltigen. In the role of interim commander of the 305th Guards Artillery Regiment and the artillery commander of the 117th Guards Rifle Division participated in the liberation of Ternopol. In the years 1944-1945 he was 305th Guards Artillery Regiment’s 117th Guards Rifle Division Chief of Staff. E.A. Evstigneev ended the war in Czechoslovakia as the 117th Guards Rifle Division artillery chief of staff, then was appointed 536 artillery brigade’s chief of staff.
In 1946, in the rank of major, he entered the Military Artillery Academy named after F. Dzerzhinsky, graduating later in 1951. Served in staff positions: the Kiev Military District Guards Rifle Corps artillery Chief of Staff (1951-1953), head of the Moscow Military District artillery headquarters operational and reconnaissance department (1953-1956), Guards cannon artillery division Chief of Staff (1956-1958).
From 1958 to 1960 he was a student of the main faculty of the Armed Forces General Staff Military Academy. Since then, a modern-day educated officer, a combat artilleryman, has been re-qualified as a missileer. E.A.Evstigneev - head of the Intercontinental Missiles Department, participated in a number of tasks, as part of the Strategic Missile Forces Main Staff operational department.
In 1962, he was appointed chairman of the commission set up by the decision of the Soviet Union Marshal commander-in-chief S.S. Biryuzov to check the combat readiness and the state of affairs in missile divisions.
In 1963, General E.A. Evstignev was appointed to the General Staff for the post of USSR General Staff Central Command Post Chief. E.A. Evstigneev initiated studies on the creation of mobile control posts - automobile, railway, air, sea, river, which significantly increased the reliability of the entire system as a whole. Having worked as the head of the USSR General Staff Central Command Post for 7 years, Evgeny Andreevich made a significant contribution to the creation of the current Armed Forces combat management system.
In the 1978-1978 E.A. Evstigneev was Armed Forces Communications for automated control systems Deputy Chief, and in 1978 was appointed first deputy of the newly created 2nd Directorate of the General Staff, headed by a prominent military scientist, General V.V.Druzhinin.
In 1981, after the reform of the 2nd Directorate, Lieutenant-General E.A. Evstigneev headed the 5th Directorate in the General Staff Main Operational Directorate, which was responsible for the management of all control system’s components: elements, bodies and command posts, automated control and communication systems . At the end of 1986, it was decided to establish the General Directorate of the Automated Control Systems and the Electronic Warfare in the General Staff. Lieutenant-General E.A. Evstigneev was appointed its head and deputy chief of the USSR General Staff. During these years, with his direct participation, the main automated control system of the Armed Forces was completed and implemented, a system of strategic nuclear forces management from the Supreme Commander-in-Chief to the immediate executors was developed as well.