Education
He graduated from the Far Eastern Higher Command School in 1964.
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Viktor Samsonov
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He was the acting Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in 1996. He was replaced by Anatoly Kvashnin. Born in 1941, an ethnic Russian.
In the Armed Forces since 1960.
After graduating from college he was sent to a Naval Infantry unit, and commanded a platoon and company. Graduated from the Frunze Military Academy in 1972 (as a class-mate of future Afghan war commander Boris Gromov).
Then a few years he was chief of staff of a Combined Arms Army. After graduating from the Military Academy of the General Staff in 1981 he was appointed an army commander.
In 1987 - 1990s - of the Transcaucasus Military District, and at the same time in 1988 – 1990 years - the military commander in Yerevan.
Participated in the localization efforts of Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict. In 1990 appointed commander of the Leningrad Military District. During the "August coup", 19–21 August 1991, he was appointed military commander of the Leningrad State Emergency Committee, said of the subordination of the orders of the State Emergency Committee and ordered a state of emergency in Leningrad and the surrounding areas.
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Membership
A member of the Communist Party from 1960 until the termination of its operations in August 1991.
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Soviet Union -
Political Party
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Awards
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Order of the Red Banner; Order for Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR, 2nd class; Order for Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR, 3rd class; Medal "For Distinction in Guarding the State Border of the USSR"; Medal for Battle Merit; Medal "For Strengthening of Brotherhood in Arms"; Order of Friendship; Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow" Chief of StaffOrder of the Red Banner; Order for Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR, 2nd class; Order for Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR, 3rd class; Medal "For Distinction in Guarding the State Border of the USSR"; Medal for Battle Merit; Medal "For Strengthening of Brotherhood in Arms"; Order of Friendship; Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow" Chief of Staff