Osvaldas Pikauskas Explained

Osvaldas Pikauskas
Birth Date:15 July 1945
Death Date:March 1995
Birth Place:Duburiai, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union
Death Place:Moscow, Russian Federation
Allegiance: (to 1991)
Branch:Soviet Airborne Forces
Russian Airborne Forces
Serviceyears:1964–1995
Rank:Colonel-general
Commands:98th Guards Airborne Division

Osvaldas Mikolovich Pikauskas (ru|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]

Biography

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 Forces (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.

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Notes and References

  1. http://articles.janes.com/articles/Janes-Intelligence-Review-95/THE-COMMANDERS-OF-TODAY-S-RUSSIAN-AIRBORNE-FORCES.html "The Commanders of Today's Russian Airborne Forces"