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Valentin Varennikov was born on 15 December, 1923 in Krasnodar, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, is a Russian army general and politician. Discover Valentin Varennikov's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 85 years old?

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Age 85 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 15 December 1923
Birthday 15 December
Birthplace Krasnodar, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Date of death 6 May, 2009
Died Place Moscow, Russia
Nationality Russia

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1923

Valentin Ivanovich Varennikov (Валентин Иванович Варенников) (December 15, 1923 – May 6, 2009) was a Soviet/Russian Army general and politician, best known for being one of the planners and leaders of the Soviet–Afghan War, as well as one of the instigators of the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt.

Valentin Varennikov was born to a poor Cossack family in Krasnodar.

His father, who fought in the Russian Civil War, graduated from the Moscow industrial institute and was a manager.

1930

His mother died in 1930 when he was seven.

1935

After recovering, he returned to duty, enlisted in the operational department of the 35th Guards Rifle Division of the 8th Guards Army.

1938

In 1938, Varennikov lived in Armavir, where he graduated from high school in 1941.

1941

In August 1941, Varennikov was drafted by the Armavir city military registration and enlistment office into the ranks of the Red Army.

He attended the Cherkassk Infantry School, which was then evacuated to Sverdlovsk following the start of Operation Barbarossa.

From October, the first military recruitment began to train.

1942

After an accelerated graduation from the school in the summer of 1942, Varennikov was among the few graduates to be appointed the commander of a training platoon in the reserve rifle brigade stationed in Gorky, and only in October 1942 he ended up on the Stalingrad Front as commander of a mortar platoon of 120-mm regimental mortars of the 138th Rifle Division.

He fought in the Battle of Stalingrad for 79 days and nights.

In November 1942, Varennikov was appointed battery commander, and in December of the same year he participated in the destruction of the encircled units of the German 6th Army commanded by Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus.

1943

In January 1943, he was wounded.

Since March 1943, he was the commander of the mortar battery of the 100th Guards Rifle Regiment, and in the spring of 1944 Varennikov was appointed Deputy Commander of the 100th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 35th Guards Rifle Division of artillery.

He participated in the Battle of the Dnieper, and fought for the liberation of Belarus and Poland.

When the 8th Guards Army was transferred to the 1st Belorussian Front Varennikov and his regiment took part in the Operation Bagration.

1944

In late July and early August 1944, he entered Polish soil in the Vistula–Oder offensive and fought for the capture of a bridgehead on the Vistula south of Warsaw in Magnuszew.

There he was seriously wounded and was treated in a hospital for four months.

1945

After his recovery, he returned to the 100th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 35th Guards Rifle Division as deputy regiment commander of artillery, and in mid-January 1945 he participated in the offensive of Soviet troops from the Baltic to the Carpathians.

He took part in the battles for the bridgehead in the area of the city of Kustrin on the Oder.

In March 1945, Varennikov was wounded for the third time in the battles for Kustrin.

In March 1945, he was assigned as Chief of Artillery of the 101st Guards Rifle Regiment of the 35th Guards Rifle Division.

From April to May, Varennikov finished the German–Soviet War in the Battle of Berlin as one of the commanders of the Soviet soldiers who captured the Reichstag.

During the war he was wounded three times and was decorated four times.

In June 1945, he took part in the Moscow Victory Parade of 1945 and immediately before the parade, being the chief of the guard of honor, he received the Victory Banner.

He ended the war with the rank of captain.

1950

Varennikov stayed in East Germany as an officer of the Soviet troops, stationed there until 1950.

1954

In 1954 he graduated from the Frunze Military Academy in Moscow.

Later he graduated from the General Staff Academy.

1960

In 1960 he became deputy commander of a motor rifle division.

1962

From 1962 to 1966 Varennikov commanded the 54th Motor Rifle Division of the Leningrad Military District.

1964

In 1964 armed forces inspectors tested the division, and it was awarded as one of the six top divisions of the Ground Forces of the USSR Armed Forces by order of the Minister of Defence.

1965

In August 1965 he was enrolled in the General Staff Academy.

1967

From 1967 to 1969 he commanded the 26th Army Corps of the Leningrad Military District.

1969

In 1969 Varennikov took charge of the 3rd Shock Army, and in 1971 he was appointed as the First Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany.

1973

On 1973, he became the commander of the Carpathian Military District.

1979

From 1979 to 1984, he served as the Head of the Main Operations Directorate and First Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR.

1984

Between 1984 and 1985, Varennikov worked with the Soviet military mission in Angola, then in the throes of a bloody civil war.

In a sharp contrast with the official policy of only permitting Soviet military advisers to serve in non-combat roles, Varennikov supported allowing the advisers to fight alongside their Angolan allies in the event they came under attack.

He was the senior Soviet general officer in Angola during Operation Askari, and personally advised Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos on defensive measures to counter the South African Defence Force's incursion.