Gennady Troshev

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Gennady Troshev is a former general in the Russian military and was formerly the commander of the North Caucasus Military District, including Chechnya, during the Second Chechen War. He was awarded a Hero of Russia award.

[edit] Biography

Gennady Troshev was born in 1947 in Grozny, Chechnya. In 1969 he graduated from the Kazan Tank College, and later from the Tank Academy and from the Military Academy of the General Staff. After graduating from the tank college in 1969 Troshev served in Soviet tank forces. Troshev served as the commander of the 10th Urals-Lvov tank division, later - as the commander of the 42nd Army Corps. and as the commander of the joint group of federal forces in Chechnya during the First Chechen War. On June 1, 1995, Troshev was appointed commander of the 58th Army and since July 29, 1997 he served as the deputy commander of the North Caucasus Military District. In April 2000 Troshev was appointed the commander of the joint group of federal forces in the Northern Caucasus. ^[1]

He publicly defied, on national television, Minister of Defense Sergi Ivanov's suggestion that Troshev should relocate from Chechnya (the North Caucasus Military District) to the command of the Siberian Military District. Due to this act, President Vladimir Putin signed a decree dismissing Troshev from his post in 2002.[1]

The Jamestown Foundation, a U.S. policy research organisation that studies Russian military affairs, said Ivanov's order that Troshev relocate to Siberia was "open to multiple and complex interpretations. One theory connects it to a broader reshuffling of personnel as major elections approach in Chechnya (and perhaps in response to the Moscow theater hostage crisis). A second explanation ties it to the stalled process of military-administrative reform."

Troshev is now advisor to the President of the Russian Federation for Cossacks affairs.