Viktor Dubynin
Viktor Petrovich Dubynin | |
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Order for Service to the Homeland, 2d class |
Viktor Petrovich Dubynin (
army general, and a Hero of the Russian Federation (posthumously).[1]
Born in 1943, Viktor Dubynin had been in service with the
General Staff Academy
in 1984.
From 1986 to 1987 he served as commander of the Soviet
40th Army in Afghanistan.[2]
From 1989 to 1992 he was the (penultimate) commander of the Soviet Northern Group of Forces in Poland.
On 10 June 1992, Dubynin was appointed by President
Collapse of the Soviet Union. At that moment Dubynin was already suffering from terminal cancer, so the then-Minister of Defense Pavel Grachev
had to visit him at his hospital ward in order to hand Dubynin's shoulder boards over to him.
Dubynin died on 22 November 1992 after his long struggle with cancer.Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow.
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