Background
Nikolai Georgievich Antonenko was born on February 14, 1947 at the farm of Susat, Rostov Region, Semikarakorsky District, on the Lower Don.
army officer Lieutenant-General
Nikolai Georgievich Antonenko was born on February 14, 1947 at the farm of Susat, Rostov Region, Semikarakorsky District, on the Lower Don.
In 1954, Nikolai Antonenko was assigned to primary school.
At the age of 18 he graduated with excellent marks. In the 9th and 10th form, Nikolai studied in the evening school in the district center - the city of Semikarakorsk while working at the state farm. He was Komsomol organisation activist, was good at sports, especially in volleyball, football, shooting and horse riding. In 1964, Nikolai received a matriculation certificate and entered the Tyumen Military Engineering School (now Tyumen branch of the Moscow Military Engineering University). He became the champion of the school of boxing. A year later, Nikolai was appointed the commander of the training division. He graduated with honours in 1967.
In 1977 Nikolay Antonenko enters the Moscow Military Engineering Academy named after V.V. Kuibyshev.
Nikolai Antonenko decided to go to serve in the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany. But instead of the GDR he came to Novocherkassk on his own. Lieutenant Antonenko is appointed commander of the Engineering Battalion stationed in Novocherkassk, the former capital of the Don Cossacks.
Three months later N.G. Antonenko was appointed to the position of the instructor for special training - assistant commander of the unit. His duties included training officer and non-commissioned officers in the mine and blasting business, providing part of the weapons and ammunition and storing them.
In 1968, Nikolai Antonenko was offered an equivalent position in the Southern Group of Forces stationed in Hungary (1968-1973).
In 1973, Senior Lieutenant Nikolai Antonenko received a new appointment and went to the military unit stationed in Volgograd.
Nikolay Antonenko was appointed commander of the airborne company in a unit in Novocherkassk, where he began his officer career. A year after his appointment, he received the pennant as the commander of the best company in the North Caucasus Military District from the Rostov Regional Committee of the CPSU by I. Bondarenko .
And in 1975 he became the chief of staff of the pontoon-bridge battalion.
In 1977, Nikolay Antonenko, who graduated from the secondary military school with honors, enters the Moscow Military Engineering Academy named after V.V. Kuibyshev. He graduated from the Academy with distinction and in 1981 he was appointed to the Carpathian Military District for the post of deputy commander of the engineer regiment stationed in Sambor (Ukraine).
Two years later he became the commander of this unit, the head of the Sambor garrison, elected a deputy of the city council and a member of the city party committee.
In 1985, Lieutenant-Colonel Antonenko was appointed commander of the 45th Separate Engineer-Sapper Regiment of a brigade detachment stationed near Charikar city, Afganistan. In 1987, after two years of fighting, there was a return to the territory of the USSR. Colonel-General N.I. Popov suggested Colonel N.G. Antonenko promotion to the post of Chief of Staff of the engineer troops of the district.
In 1989, Colonel-General N.I. Popov was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Southern Strategic Direction. He proposes N.G. Antonenko the post of chief of engineer troops of the rate, but Nikolai decided to study at the Academy of the General Staff
After graduating from the academy in 1991, N.G. Antonenko was appointed head of the engineering troops of the Baltic Military District (PribbVO). After a successful operation, N.G. Antonenko offered the post of Deputy Chief of the Engineer Troops of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
In Moscow, he entered the disposal of the chief of the engineer troops of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. General Antonenko included in the operational group of the General Staff, established to organize the introduction of troops into the Chechen Republic. He takes a direct part in the preparation of the operation, supervises the transfer of troops by rail. In the operational group was until January 1995, after which he was appointed deputy chief of the engineer troops of the RF Ministry of Armament.
N.G. Antonenko resigned from the Armed Forces in May 2002. His former chief, Colonel-General L.S. Mayorov, who headed the Center for the Social Adaptation of Russia-NATO Armed Forces (Moscow) in the same year by joint efforts of the Russian Defense Ministry and NATO, invited him to become an assistant and then a deputy. Since then N.G. Antonenko works in this post.