Osvaldas Pikauskas | |
Birth Date: | 15 July 1945 |
Death Date: | March 1995 |
Birth Place: | Duburiai, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union |
Death Place: | Moscow, Russian Federation |
Allegiance: | Soviet Union (1964-1991) Russian Federation (1991-1995) |
Branch: | Soviet Army Russian Army |
Serviceyears: | 1964 - 1991 1991 - 1995 |
Rank: | Colonel-general |
Commands: | 98th Guards Airborne Division |
Osvaldas Mikolovich Pikauskas (Russian: Освальдас Миколович Пикаускас; 1945 - 1995) was a Soviet and Russian military leader of Lithuanian origin who served as first deputy commander of the Airborne Troops from January 1991 to March 1995.[1]
Osvaldas Pikauskas was born in the village of Duburiai in Soviet Lithuania in 1945 and joined the Soviet Army in 1964 as a private. He graduated from an airborne troops officer school in Ryazan in 1969 and went on to study at the Frunze Military Academy in Moscow. He was promoted to major-general at age thirty-eight. He commanded the 98th Guards Airborne Division between 1982 and 1985.
Pikauskas was made deputy commander of the Soviet Airborne Troops (VDV) in January 1991 as a lieutenant-general. He continued his career in the Russian Federation following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 as a colonel-general of the Russian Army.
He died in March 1995.