Alexander Lentsov
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| Native name | Александр Иванович Ленцов |
| Birth name | Alexander Ivanovich Lentsov |
| Born | 20 December 1956 |
| Allegiance | File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union (to 1991) File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia |
| Branch | File:USSR Airborn troops flag.svg Soviet Airborne Forces File:Flag of the Russian Airborne Troops.svg Russian Airborne Forces File:Flag of the Russian ground forces.svg Russian Ground Forces |
| Service years | 1978–2023 |
| Rank | Colonel general |
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Alexander Ivanovich Lentsov (Russian: Александр Иванович Ленцов; born 20 December 1956) is a retired Russian Airborne Forces colonel general that held various senior positions, including Deputy Commander of the Russian Airborne Forces from 2009 to 2013 and Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Ground Forces from 2013 to 2020. He also had senior posts with Russian peacekeeping forces deployed abroad in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Nagorno-Karabakh, and Syria, and commanded the 98th Guards Airborne Division from 1996 to 2009.
Biography
[edit | edit source]Lentsov was born on 20 December 1956 in Kholmskaya, Krasnodar Krai, in the Soviet Union. His military education includes graduating from the Ryazan Guards Higher Airborne Command School in 1978, from the Frunze Military Academy in 1989, and from the General Staff Academy in 2008. After 1978 he first served in command positions at the platoon, battalion, regimental, and division levels, and fought in the Soviet-Afghan War and the Chechen Wars.[1]
General officer
[edit | edit source]He was promoted to lieutenant general in 2011 and colonel general in 2014.
Since 2020 he has served as an advisor to the Minister of Defence.[2]
On 25 April 2023, he was appointed commander of the Russian peacekeeping contingent in Nagorno-Karabakh.[3] He remained in that role until 3 September 2023.[4]
Awards
[edit | edit source]- File:Orden for Service IV.png Order of Merit to the Fatherland, 4th class[1]
- File:RUS Order of Courage ribbon.svg Order of Courage[1]
References
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- Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class
- Recipients of the Order of Courage (Russia)
- 1956 births
- Living people
- People of the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea
- Pro-Russian people of the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine
- People from Krasnodar Krai
- Ryazan Guards Higher Airborne Command School alumni
- Frunze Military Academy alumni
- Russian colonel generals
- Soviet military personnel of the Soviet–Afghan War
- Russian military personnel stubs