Pavel Grachev

Quotes

• “We shall respond to every Chechen shot with thousands of our own.”
• “These 18-year-old youths Russian conscripts in Grozny] died for Russia, and they died with a smile.”
• “Everybody keeps saying - reform, reform. The T-72 has proved itself wonderfully in Chechnya. So we will be making reform on the basis of T-72.”

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Key facts

President

Boris Yeltsin

Prime minister

Boris Yeltsin, Yegor Gaidar (acting) , Viktor Chernomyrdin

Preceded by

Boris Yeltsin (acting)

Succeeded by

Mikhail Kolesnikov (acting)

Born

( 1948-01-01 ) 1 January 1948, Rvy, Tula Oblast , RSFSR , USSR

Died

23 September 2012 (2012-09-23) (aged 64), Krasnogorsk , Moscow Oblast , Russia

Party

CPSU (1969–91)

Awards

Hero of the Soviet Union

Allegiance

Soviet Union (to 1991), Russia

Branch service

Soviet Airborne Forces Russian Airborne Forces

Years of service

1965–1996

Rank

General of the Army

Commands

Soviet Airborne Forces , Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

Battles wars

Soviet–Afghan War , First Chechen War

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Wikidata facts

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