19 Facts About Sergey Akhromeyev

Sergey Fyodorovich Akhromeyev was a Soviet military figure, Hero of the Soviet Union and Marshal of the Soviet Union.

Sergey Akhromeyev later served as Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces from 1984 to 1988 and as chief military adviser to General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev.

Sergey Akhromeyev was born on 5 May in 1923 in Vindrey, a village in the Tambov Governorate of the Russian SFSR, in a family of Russian ethnicity.

Sergey Akhromeyev's father fell under dispossession and died in the late 1940s in Central Asia.

Sergey Akhromeyev took additional training at the naval base of the Baltic Fleet in Liepaja, in recently Soviet-occupied Latvia.

Sergey Akhromeyev was a Naval Infantry junior officer on the Eastern Front, serving with distinction during the Siege of Leningrad, and was wounded and suffered frostbite.

Sergey Akhromeyev then served as commander of a rifle platoon of the 197th Army Reserve Regiment of the 28th Army, and since 1943 as an adjutant senior rifle battalion of the same regiment on the 4th Ukrainian Front.

Sergey Akhromeyev was decorated for his participation in the defense of Leningrad.

From May 1972 to March 1974, Sergey Akhromeyev served as Chief of Staff and First Deputy Commander of the Far Eastern Military District.

In 1979, while serving as the First Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR, Sergey Akhromeyev formulated a comprehensive plan to invade Afghanistan.

Sergey Akhromeyev believed that after the occupation of Afghanistan, the Soviet Army should advance on victory and occupy the western part of Pakistan in one go, so that the Soviet Union could obtain the outlet of the Indian Ocean, in order to eradicate the logistics base of the Afghan Mujahaddin.

Sergey Akhromeyev was promoted to Marshal of the Soviet Union in 1983, the only person to have obtained this position without having previously served as chief of the General Staff.

In that capacity, Sergey Akhromeyev was heavily involved in the talks which brought an end to the Cold War.

Sergey Akhromeyev later presented a report on the conduct of the troops during the disaster.

Sergey Akhromeyev served as the member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the Committee of the USSR Armed Forces on Defense and Security.

On June 19,1991, at a press conference commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Great Patriotic War, Sergey Akhromeyev observed that the situation of the Soviet Union in 1991 was similar to that of 1941.

Sergey Akhromeyev believed that the country was heading for its destruction, going so far as to say that "which was defended by Soviet soldiers and civilians at the expense of millions of people, is about to collapse".

Sergey Akhromeyev prepared a plan of measures to be taken in connection with the introduction of the state of emergency.

Sergey Akhromeyev was, among others author of the planned assault on the White House.