Education
Military Academy, of Armoured Carolina Forces. Military Academy, of GHQ.
Military Academy, of Armoured Carolina Forces. Military Academy, of GHQ.
Served in Soviet Army since 1942. Served in a series of responsible posts in tank divisions since 1945. Deputy commander of tank division 1956-1968.
Various posts of command since 1968.
Commander of North. Caucasian Forces since 1976, of Cis-Carpathian Military Districts since 1979.
Commander in Chief Soviet Forces in Germany since 1979. Candidate; Deputy to Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Supreme Soviet.
Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1949; of Communist Party of the Soviet Union Central Committee 1986.