Colonel General

Grigory Yashkin
Yashkin speaking during the golden jubilee of the Moldovan SSR.
Native name
Григорий Петрович Яшкин
Born27 December 1922
Golodovka, Tambov Governorate, Soviet Union
DiedOctober 2003 (aged 80)
Moscow, Russia
Allegiance Soviet Union
 Russia
Service/branch Soviet Army
Soviet Air Defence Forces
Years of service1939–1987
RankColonel General
Commands held14th Guards Army
Battles/warsWestern Front (World War II)
1982 Lebanon War

Grigory Petrovich Yashkin (Russian: Григо́рий Петро́вич Я́шкин) was a Soviet Army colonel general and former commander of the 14th Guards Army.[1]

Early life and career

He was born in December 1922 in Golodovka, a village in the Tambov Governorate of the Soviet Union. He is the son of Pyotr Efremovich Yashkin (19021983) and Irina Andreevna (19001938). In his youth, he attended a drama school in Saransk. He joined the Red Army in 1939 at the age of 17. In 1941, he graduated from the Podolsk rifle and machine gun school and was immediately sent to the Western Front to serve in a machine gun platoon. After the war, he commanded a mechanized regiment and a separate tank brigade. In 1956, he graduated from Frunze Military Academy. In the mid-1960s, he served as deputy commander of the 31st Tank Division. In October 1969, he was the commander of the 44th Rifle Corps of the Transbaikal Military District, during which he presided over the stationing of troops in the Mongolian People's Republic as a result of the Sino-Soviet split and Sino-Soviet border conflict.

In 1972, he completed higher level courses at the Voroshilov Academy of the General Staff of the USSR. He returned to Mongolia in May 1970 to serve in the 39th Army of the Far Eastern Military District before returning to the USSR a year later to serve as commander of the 14th Guards Army in Odessa Military District, serving from 30 November 1971 to 4 December 1975. In this position, he effectively had jurisdiction over all units in the Moldovan SSR. From December 1975 - Deputy Commander of the Odessa Military District for Combat Training - Head of Troop Training, since November 1978 Deputy Commander-in-Chief for Combat Training - Head of the Combat Training Directorate of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany.

From 19801984, he advised the Syrian Army as part of the Group of Soviet Military Specialists in Syria (Russian: Группа советских военных специалистов в Сирии) during for the course of the 1982 Lebanon War. During his time in Syria, he survived 2 attempts on his life, including an explosion at his headquarters in Damascus in October 1981.[2][3] During his term as Deputy Head of Civil Defense of the USSR from 19841987, he oversaw the recovery process in the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster in the Ukrainian and Byelorussian SSRs.[4]

After retirement, he actively participated in public activities and has since served as the Chairman of the Russian Union of Veterans of the Armed Forces and the First Deputy Chairman of the Russian Committee of War and Military Veterans. He was also a member of the Presidium of the Coordination Council of the All-Russian public movement “People’s Patriotic Union of Russia”. He died in October 2003 at the age of 80 and was buried at Troekurovskoye Cemetery in Moscow. He is survived by his wife and daughters Svetlana and Elena.[5][6][7][8][9][10]

Awards and honors

Citations

  1. Яшкин, Григорий Петрович - Эту жизнь не перепишешь заново - Search RSL. Победа -1945 год. 1994.
  2. "Под жарким солнцем Сирии".
  3. ""Мы воевали в Сирии" Генерал-полковник Григорий Павлович Яшкин с 1980 по 1984 г. главный военный советник в вооруженных силах Сирии - советник министра обороны САР".
  4. "Yashkin Grigory Pavlovich" (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2016-08-09.
  5. "Яшкин Григорий Петрович | Элита Вооруженных сил!".
  6. "ЯШКИН Григорий Петрович (1922–2003)". Archived from the original on 2019-06-06. Retrieved 2019-06-06.
  7. "Yashkin, Grigory Petrovich".
  8. "Яшкин Григорий Петрович | Центр военно-политических исследований". eurasian-defence.ru.
  9. "Яшкин Григорий Петрович — Краткие биографии". biographiya.com.
  10. "ЯШКИН :: Персональный список". baza.vgd.ru.
  11. "Яшкин Григорий Петрович, Медаль "За оборону Москвы" :: Документ о награде :: Память народа". pamyat-naroda.ru. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
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