Valerii Hryhorovych asapov

Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School – in 1987 (cum laude);

Frunze Military Academy – in 1999 (cum laude);

Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation – in 2011 (cum laude).

1987-1996 – commander of the platoon, company, and battalion of the 104^th airborne regiment of the 76^th airborne division;

1996 – 1999 – student of the Frunze Military Academy (Moscow);

1999 – 2003– deputy commander, commander of the separate parachute regiment of the so called “Russian Peacekeeping Force” in Abkhaziia, Georgia;

2003 – 2007 – deputy commander, EO of the 98th airborne division (Ivanovo) of the Airborne Forces;

2007 – 2010 – commander of the 18th machine gun-artillery division (Hariachi Klyuchi, the Kurile Islands) of the Far Eastern Military District;

2010 – 2011 – student of the Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (Moscow);

2011 – 2013 – commander of the 37th separate motorized rifle brigade (Kiachta, Republic of Buriatiya) of the 36th Army (Ulan-Ude) of the Eastern Military District;

2013 – 2014 – deputy commander of the 5th Army (Ussuriisk, Primorskii krai) of the Eastern Military District;

01.2014 – 07.2015 – commander of the 68th Army Corps (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk) of the Eastern Military District.

In July 2015, General Asapov was seconded to Southern Military District HQ in Rostov-on-Don, and later in August, 2015 became Commander of the 1st Army Corps (Donetsk, Ukraine) of the Center of the Territorial Forces of the Southern Military District/Russian Armed Forces”.

Promotion: Major General in 2013.
Combat experience:

1992-1993 – South Osethia;

1995, 2004 – Chechnia;

2002 – Abkhaziia.

In photo Russian President Vladimir Putin presents Major General Valerii Hryhorovych ASAPOV (at the time still a colonel) with the 4th degree of the Russian order “For Merit to Fatherland”

Major General Ihor Borysovych TYMOFEYEV – the Commander of the 3rd separate motorized rifle brigade (military unit 08803, Horlivka, Ukraine) of the 1st AC (Donetsk, Ukraine) of the Center of the Territorial Forces of the Southern Military District of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In Ukraine uses the alias SOKOLOV, in daily phone and radio exchanges uses the codename – “BREST”. General Tymofeyev co-educated in Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School with Lieutenant General Teplynskii – EO, the 1^st Deputy Chief of the Center of the Territorial Forces of the Russian Southern Military District. General Tymofeyev's previous position in the Russian Armed Forces – the CO of the 33rd separate motorized rifle brigade (Maikop, Adyheya Republic) of the 49th Army of the Russian Southern Military District, appointed to the position on 16.12.2011.

1986-1987 – conscript service in the 7^th airborne division;

1991-2000 – platoon commander, company commander, battalion COS, battalion commander;

2003-2006 – deputy commander, EO (Chechnya) of the motorized rifle regiment;

2006-2009 – commander of the 6^th airborne regiment of the 20^th motorized rifle division, the Russian North Caucasian Military District;

2009-2011 – commander of the 56^th separate air assault brigade, Sothern Military District;

2011 - till present – commander of the 33rd separate motorized rifle brigade (Maikop, Adyheya Republic) of the 49th Army of the Russian Southern Military District.

Promotion: Major General in 21.02.2014.

Combat experience:

1995, 2000 – Chechnia.

In photo (at the right side in a white uniform shirt) lieutenant colonel Oleksandr Mykolayovych BUSHUYEV taking part at the celebration of the 79^th anniversary of the Airborne troops at the permanent base of the 83^rd separate air assault brigade in 2012

Colonel Andrii Yuriyovych RUZYNSKII – commander of the 2^nd separate motorized rifle brigade (Luhansk, Ukraine) of the 2^nd AC (Luhansk, Ukraine) of the Center of the Territorial Forces of the Southern Military District of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

Colonel Petro Mykolayovych BOLHAREV– commander of the 4^th separate motorized rifle brigade (military unit L-74347, Alchevsk) of the 2^nd AC. In daily phone and radio exchanges, reportedly, uses the name of “Klion” or “Vorchun”. Born in 20.01.77, native of Amur oblast, Russia. Graduated from Blahoveshchensk Higher Tank Command School and, reportedly, Russian Federation Armed Forces Combined Arms Academy. In January, 2013 held an interim appointment of the commander of the 70^th separate motorized rifle brigade (military unit 24776, city of Ussuriysk, Primorsky Krai) of the 5^th Army of the Eastern Military District. In May, 2015, he was appointed to the position of the commander of the 5^th separate tank brigade (military unit 46108, Husinooziorsk, the Republic of Buriatiya) of the 36^th Аrmy of the Eastern Military District.