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Soviet and Russian military leader (1928-2005) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yury Aleksandrovich Gorkov (February 7, 1928 — June 27, 2005) (Russian: Юрий Александрович Горьков) was a Soviet and Russian military leader, historian and colonel general. He was a student of professor Viktor Anfilov.
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Yury Aleksandrovich Gorkov | |
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Born | February 7, 1928 Bar-Sloboda, Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union |
Allegiance | Soviet Union Russia |
Service | Anti-aircraft warfare |
Years of service | 1947 — 1988 |
Rank | Colonel-General |
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He was born February 7, 1928 in the village of Bar-Sloboda, Sursky District, Ulyanovsk Oblast. During World War II, he was on the labor front. Upon graduation in 1949 from the Gorky School of Anti-Aircraft Artillery, he served in Soviet Air Defense Forces as a platoon commander of an anti-aircraft battery and chief of staff of the anti-aircraft artillery regiment.
In 1962, he graduated from the Zhukov Air and Space Defence Academy, and in 1971, he graduated from the Military Academy of the General Staff. He then commanded an anti-aircraft artillery regiment and an air defense division brigade. In 1973 he became a Chief of Staff and from 1979 to 1983 he was the Commander of the 10th Independent Air Defense Army (Arkhangelsk). From 1983-1988 he was Chief of Staff of the 1st Deputy Commander of the Troops of the Moscow Air Defense District. In 1988, he retired as a colonel-general and worked as a consultant of the Historical Archive and Military Memorial Center of the General Staff.[1]
He died on June 27, 2005. He is buried in Moscow in the Troyekurovskoye Cemetery.
His son Alexander Gorkov (born January 10, 1953) is a retired lieutenant general. He was the head of anti-aircraft missile forces of the Russian Air Force from 2000 to 2008.[2]
His daughter Tatiana Yurievna Gorkova,[3] is the dean of the economic faculty at Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry, the Head of the Department of Finance and Investments, a professor, and has a Doctor of Economic Sciences.
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