Anatoly Romanov Explained

Anatoly Romanov
Birth Date:27 September 1948
Birth Place:Mikhailovka village, Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR
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Branch: Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
Serviceyears:1967–1995
Rank:Colonel general (1995)
Commands:Internal Troops of Russia
Battles:1993 Russian constitutional crisis
First Chechen War
Awards:Hero of the Russian Federation
Order of Military Merit
Order of the Red Star
Order "For Personal Courage"

Anatoly Alexandrovich Romanov (Russian: Анатолий Александрович Романов; born September 27, 1948) is a Russian Colonel-General, a former deputy interior minister - the commander of the Russian Interior Ministry and the Commander of the Joint Group of Federal Forces in Chechnya, Hero of the Russian Federation. 1995 - Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation - the commander of the Interior Troops of the Russian Interior Ministry.

Assassination Attempt

On October 6, 1995, in Grozny in the area of a tunnel under the railway bridge, a radio-controlled bomb exploded. The car in which Romanov was riding was in the center of the explosion. Romanov was seriously injured, miraculously survived, but was left disabled (Romanov went to the meeting to Khasbulatov).[1]

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  1. Commanding heights