Pavel Grachev
| Pavel Grachev Павел Грачёв |
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| Minister of Defence | |
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In office 18 May 1992 – 17 July 1996 |
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| President | Boris Yeltsin |
| Prime Minister | Boris Yeltsin Yegor Gaidar (acting) Viktor Chernomyrdin |
| Preceded by | Boris Yeltsin (acting) |
| Succeeded by | Mikhail Kolesnikov (acting) |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
1 January 1948 Rvy, Tula Oblast, RSFSR, USSR |
| Died | 23 September 2012 (aged 64) Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast, Russia |
| Awards |
 Order of Lenin (2) Order of the Red Banner Order of the Red Star Order for Personal Courage Order of the Badge of Honor Order for Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |
 Soviet Union Russia
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| Service/branch | Russian Airborne Troops |
| Years of service | 1965–1996 |
| Rank | General of the Army |
| Commands |
Soviet Airborne Troops Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation |
| Battles/wars |
Soviet War in Afghanistan First Chechen War |
Pavel Sergeyevich Grachev (Russian: Па́вел Серге́евич Грачё́в; 1 January 1948 – 23 September 2012), sometimes transliterated as Grachov, was a Russian Army General and the Defence Minister of the Russian Federation from 1992 to 1996; in 1988 he was awarded Hero of the Soviet Union gold star. As Defence Minister, Grachev gained notoriety because of his military incompetence displayed during the First Chechen War and the persistent allegations of involvement in enormous corruption scandals.
Grachev, born in 1948 in Tula Oblast, RSFSR, joined the Soviet Army's airborne troops in 1965 and finished the Ryazan Airborne Military Command School. In 1972, he joined the Soviet Communist Party. After commanding parachute platoons, companies and battalions in the 1970s, he attended the Frunze Military Academy and the General Staff Academy, graduating in 1981. During the Soviet war in Afghanistan, Grachev commanded the 345th Independent Guards Airborne Regiment from 1982 to 1983, and was in command of the 103rd Guards Airborne Division in Afghanistan in the last years of the Soviet involvement from 1985 to 1988.
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