Education
Junior. lieuts’. courses 1941-1942, infantry officers’ courses 1945-1947, Stalin Military Academy, for Tanks, Moscow, until 1954, Military Academy, of General Staff, Moscow until 1966.
Junior. lieuts’. courses 1941-1942, infantry officers’ courses 1945-1947, Stalin Military Academy, for Tanks, Moscow, until 1954, Military Academy, of General Staff, Moscow until 1966.
Commander of a platoon, commander of a company served on Volkhov and Leningrad fronts, in Leningrad blockade, wounded, 1942-1945. Deputy Commander 1969-1971, Commander of Soviet First Army in Germany, Dresden 1971-1973. First Deputy Commander in Chief Group of Soviet Troops in Germany 1973-1975.
Deputy to Estonian South.S.R. Supreme Soviet 1975-1980.
Commander of Volga Military District 1975-1977; Commander of Central Asian Military
District 1977-1980. Deputy to Council of the Union, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Supreme Soviet since 1979.
Commander Moscow Military District, Chief of Moscow Garrison 1980-1985.
Deputy Minister of Defence 1986-1989. Commander in Chief Warsaw Pact Forces February.
Elected to Congress of People"s Deputies of the United States.S.R 1989.
Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1951; Central Committee Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1981.