Gennady Troshev

Infobox Military Person
name=Gennady Nikolayevich Troshev
Геннадий Николаевич Трошев


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born=March 14, 1947
died=September 14, 2008 (aged 61)
placeofbirth=Grozny, Chechnya (Soviet occupation zone)
placeofdeath=Perm, Russia
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allegiance=RUS
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serviceyears=1969-2002
rank=Colonel General
unit=58th Army
North Caucasus Military District
commands=
battles=First Chechen War
Invasion of Dagestan (1999)
Second Chechen War
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laterwork=Advisor to the President of the Russian Federation for Cossacks affairs

Gennady Nikolayevich Troshev ( _ru. Геннадий Николаевич Трошев) (March 14 1947– September 14 2008) was a Russian Colonel General in the Russian military and formerly the commander of the North Caucasus Military District, including Chechnya, during the Second Chechen War. He was awarded a Hero of Russia award.

Biography

Early years

Gennady Troshev was born in 1947 in Grozny Chechnya, in the Soviet occupation zone, [http://www.warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=3684] the son of a Soviet officer. He spent his childhood in the ethnic Russian community of the Chechen-Ingush Republic's capital Grozny. [ [http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/7018-17.cfm Chechen war veteran flexes political muscles, sending shiver down the spine of the Kremlin - Another Russian general has emerged who wants to be a politician - a man who left his mark on Chechnya by helping raze its capital city] ]

Military career

In 1969 he graduated from the Kazan Tank College, and later from the Tank Academy and from the Military Academy of the General Staff. After graduating from the tank college in 1969 Troshev served in Soviet tank forces. Troshev served as the commander of the 10th Guards Uralsko-Lvovskaya Tank Division, later - as the commander of the 42nd Army Corps. and as the commander of the joint group of federal forces in Chechnya during the First Chechen War. On June 1, 1995, Troshev was appointed commander of the 58th Army, and since July 29, 1997, he served as the deputy commander of the North Caucasus Military District. In April 2000 Troshev was appointed the commander of the joint group of federal forces in the Northern Caucasus. [ [http://www.aeronautics.ru/chechnya/who_is_who_in_chechen_politics.htm Who is who in Chechen politics] ]

During his career as a commander in Chechnya he gained notoriety after advocating public executions of separatist fighters. [ [http://www.russiajournal.com/node/7180#1 General backs public execution of rebels] ] [ [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/1308872/Email-from-Russia.html Email from Russia] ] Human rights activists had accused him of tolerating rampant abuses in the war-ravaged republic. [ [http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hfMhR_pqZALWAXYItrsMxgqHiPIgD936IPM00 Russian jet crash kills 88; engine failure cited] ] Early in the war he declared that the shattered city of Grozny should never be rebuilt so as to serve as a warning against "treason to Russia's ethnic minorities". [ [http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/7018-17.cfm Chechen war veteran flexes political muscles, sending shiver down the spine of the Kremlin - Another Russian general has emerged who wants to be a politician - a man who left his mark on Chechnya by helping raze its capital city] ] He also publicly defended Yuri Budanov who was on trial for the rape and murder of a 18-year-old Chechen woman Elza Kungayeva. [ [http://www.jamestown.org/publications_details.php?volume_id=24&issue_id=1975&article_id=18104 FSB FREES HOSTAGE IN CHECHNYA WHILE BUDANOV TRIAL IS POSTPONED.] ]

Post military career

He publicly defied, on national television, Minister of Defense Sergi Ivanov's suggestion that Troshev should relocate from Chechnya (the North Caucasus Military District) to the command of the Siberian Military District. Due to this act, President Vladimir Putin signed a decree dismissing Troshev from his post in 2002. [ [http://www.spacedaily.com/2002/021218165938.v5drk187.html] ]

The Jamestown Foundation, a U.S. policy research organisation that studies Russian military affairs, said Ivanov's order that Troshev relocate to Siberia was "open to multiple and complex interpretations. One theory connects it to a broader reshuffling of personnel as major elections approach in Chechnya (and perhaps in response to the Moscow theater hostage crisis). A second explanation ties it to the stalled process of military-administrative reform." [ [http://www.jamestown.org/publications_details.php?volume_id=16&issue_id=615&article_id=4496 Troshev Ouster and the Chechnya Policy] The Jamestown Foundation]

After his sacking, Troshev was appointed an advisor to the President of the Russian Federation for Cossacks affairs. [H. F. Scott and Scott, Russian Military Directory 2004]

Death

He died in the Aeroflot-Nord Flight 821 crash on September 14 2008. Officials have dismissed suspicions that the crash in which Troshev died was deliberately sabotaged. [http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080914/ts_nm/russia_crash_dc]

A week after Troshev's death, the President of Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov ordered to rename Krasnoznamennaya street in Grozny after Troshev [http://www.newsru.com/russia/21sep2008/tro.html] .

Troshev is Survived by his Mother, Wife, two Daughters and four Grandsons.

Military medals and ribbons

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