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The last Defense Minister of the USSR, Aviation Marshal Evgeny Shaposhnikov, died at the age of 78. The cause is a coronavirus.
Evgeny Ivanovich Shaposhnikov was born on February 3, 1942 in the village of Bolshoi Log in the Rostov region.
In 1963 he graduated from the Kharkov Military Aviation Street for Pilots “SI Gritsevtsa”, in 1969 from the Air Force Academy “YA Gagarin” and in 1984 from the Military Academy in the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR .
He began his service in the USSR Air Force in 1959 as a fighter pilot. He flew MiG-15, MiG-17, MiG-21, MiG-23.
From 1963 to 1966 he was a pilot, lead pilot, and unit commander in the Carpathian Military District.
From 1969 to 1971 he was a regimental navigator, squadron commander and deputy commander of a political regiment.
From 1973 to 1975 he was commander of the 787th Fighter Regiment in the Soviet troop group in Germany, which was based at Finov airport, near Ebeswalde in the GDR.
From 1975 to 1979 he was deputy commander and later commander of a combat air division in the Carpathian Military District.
From 1979 to 1984 he was Deputy Commander of the Air Force for Combat Training in the Carpathian Military District.
From 1984 to 1987 he was Deputy Commander and then Commander of the Odessa Military District.
From 1987 to 1988 he was Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Aviation Group in Germany. He then took over the 16th Air Army in the GDR.
From 1988 to 1991 he was the first deputy commander in chief of the Air Force Alexander Efimov. Then he took his place and became Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR, Marshal Dmitry Yazov. During this period he was also a member of the Central Committee of the CPSU, elected at the 18th Party Congress.
During the August 1991 coup, Evgeny Shaposhnikov defended Boris Yeltsin. He is in constant contact with him.
On August 23, 1991, he left the CPSU and became Minister of Defense. It was named by Mikhail Gorbachev at the suggestion of Boris Yeltsin. He abolished the party’s control over the army by removing and closing the positions of political deputy. She appointed an extraordinary commission in the ministry, headed by Konstantin Koblenz, and after her work, a group of former officers were fired for supporting the coup.
During his time, began the conquest of goods and military equipment by the united republics, which are fighting for independence. This is done by the President of Georgia, Eviad Gamsakhurdia, Moldova, Mircea Snegur, and the self-proclaimed Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, Dzhokhar Dudayev.
On December 8, he signed the Almaty Declaration and received the authority to lead the army of the USSR until its dissolution.
On December 26, the last president of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev, fired him. However, Shaposhnikov received the nuclear briefcase from him because Boris Yeltsin, who was elected president of Russia, did not attend the meeting.
Until 1993 he held the position of Commander-in-Chief of the United Armed Forces of all the former republics of the USSR.
He later served as Secretary of the Russian Security Council. He joined the Russian movement for democratic reforms of former Moscow mayor Gavril Popov, ran for parliament, but received only 4.08% in the elections with a 5 percent barrier. With him are the mayor of Saint Petersburg, Aatoliy Sobchak, former member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU Alexander Yakovlev, actor Oleg Basilashvili and others.
Until 1996, he represented Boris Yeltsin in the management of the state-owned Rosvooruzhenie. From the summer of the same year he went to the reserve.
He then became CEO of Aeroflot. When he left, he was charged with fraud for spending too much money.
It goes to the presidential administration. He became an assistant in the development of space aviation with Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin.
He became an advisor to the CEO of OAO Sukhoi, the Su fighter manufacturer, and later a member of the Board of Directors of Sukhoi Civil Aircraft. He entered the management of PJSC Aeroflot and OJSC Aviakor (Samara).
On August 26, 1991 he became Marshal of the USSR, being the last with this military rank. Holder of the orders “Red Star”, “Honor” and “For Service to the Fatherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR”.
Honor military pilot of Russia. Author of the book “Elección. Notes from the Commander in Chief”. Married to Zemfira, he has three children.
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