Valentin Bobryshev

Valentin Bobryshev
Native name	Валентин Сергеевич Бобрышев
Birth name	Valentin Sergeyevich Bobryshev
Born	(1945-03-05)5 March 1945 Arkhiposkoye, Budyonnovsky District, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died	30 November 2022(2022-11-30) (aged 77) Saint Petersburg, Russia
Allegiance	Soviet Union  Russia
Service/branch	Soviet Army  Russian Ground Forces
Years of service	1963–2010
Rank	Army general
Commands held	Leningrad Military District (1997–2005)
Battles/wars	Tajikistani Civil War

Valentin Sergeyevich Bobryshev (Russian: Валентин Сергеевич Бобрышев; 5 March 1945 – 30 November 2022), was a Russian army officer who had commanded the Leningrad Military District from 1997 to 2005.

He was last ranked the General of the Army in 2003.

Biography

Valentin Bobryshev on 5 March 1945 to a military family.^[1]

He graduated from the Kiev Suvorov Military School in 1963. He joined the Soviet Army in that same year.

He graduated from the Leningrad Higher Combined Arms Command School named after S. M. Kirov in 1966.^[1] In that same year, he served in the 131st Pechenga Motorized Rifle Division of the 6th Army of the Leningrad Military District, in the Arctic. In September 1966, he had been the commander of a motorized rifle platoon, and in November 1966, he was the commander of a reconnaissance platoon.

In September 1969, he was the commander of a motorized rifle company.

In October 1971, he was the deputy battalion commander. In November 1972, he was promoted as a battalion commander.

In August 1974, he was studying.

In 1977, he graduated from the Military Academy named after M.V. Frunze.

In June of that same year, he was the commander of the 123rd Guards Motorized Rifle Division from the Far Eastern Military District. From September 1979 to August 1981, he was the chief of staff of the 123rd Guards Motorized Rifle Division.

In 1983, he graduated from the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces named after K. E. Voroshilov.

In July 1983, he was the commander of the 19th Guards Tank Nikolaev–Budapest Division of the Southern Group of Forces in Hungary.

In September 1985, he was the 1st Deputy Commander of the 14th Guards Army of the Odesa Military District. In June 1987, he was the chief of staff of the 1st Guards Army of the Kyiv Military District. In May 1988, he was promoted to commander.

In June 1990, Bobryshev has been promoted to Lieutenant General.

In August 1991, Bobryshev was the Chief of Staff of the Baltic Military District. In November 1991, he was the Chief of Staff of the North-Western Group of Forces in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.

In September 1994, he was at the disposal of the commander of the Leningrad Military District. From May to November 1995, he became the commander of the Collective Peacekeeping Forces of the Commonwealth of Independent States in Tajikistan.^[1]

In December 1995, Bobryshev became the Chief of Staff – First Deputy Commander of the Leningrad Military District.^[1]

In December 1996, after the district commander, Colonel General Sergey Seleznyov, died in a plane crash, he was appointed acting commander of the Leningrad Military District.

On 4 March 1997, he was confirmed as commander of the district.^[1]

He was promoted colonel general in 1997.

Bobyrshev was promoted as the General of the Army by decree of the President of Russia on 21 February 2003.

In March 2005, he had been on reserve. He had retired from the army in 2010.

After his retirement, he lived in Saint Petersburg, and had worked as deputy head of the Oktyabrskaya Railway of Russian Railways OJSC.

He died on 30 November 2022 at the age of 77 after a long illness. He was buried at the Nikolskoye cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra in Saint Petersburg.^[2][3]

Personal life

He was married and had a son and daughter.^[1] It is known that General Bobryshev was a passionate bibliophile and possessed a unique library of several thousand publications.

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