Lev Rokhlin
| Lev Rokhlin | |
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| Member of the State Duma of the Russian Federation | |
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In office 16 January 1996 – 3 July 1998 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | 6 June 1947 Aralsk, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union |
| Died | 3 July 1998 (51 years) Klokovo, Moskovskaya oblast, Russia |
| Spouse(s) | Tamara Pavlovna Rokhlina |
| Children | Elena, Igor |
| Awards | Hero of the Russian Federation (refused to accept) |
| Military service | |
| Rank | Lieutenant general |
| Battles/wars |
Soviet–Afghan War Nagorno-Karabakh War First Chechen War Battle of Grozny (1994–95) |
Lev Yakovlevich Rokhlin (Russian: Лев Яковлевич Рохлин; 1947–1998) was a career officer in the Soviet and Russian armies. Rokhlin reached the top of the Russian military, quickly rising through the ranks during and after the Soviet war in Afghanistan. He was a member of Russian State Duma and the chairman of State Duma's Defense Committee.
Lev Rokhlin was the youngest of three children in the family of a Great Patriotic War soldier, the political exile of Yakov Lvovich Rokhlin. In 1948, 8 months after the birth of his son, Yakov was arrested and apparently died in the Gulag prison. Mother, Ksenia Ivanovna Goncharova brought up three children alone.
10 years later Rokhlin family moved to Tashkent. Rokhlin studied there at school number 19 in the Old Town. after graduating from school, he worked at Tashkent aircraft factory, then he was drafted into the army.
In 1970 he graduated from the Tashkent Higher Military Command School with honors. Then he served in the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, in Wurzen. Then he studied at the Frunze Military Academy, after its completion served in the Arctic, as well as in Leningrad, Turkestan, Transcaucasian Military Districts, where he was deputy commander of a corps.
In 1982—1984 served in Arganistan. First as the commander of 860 mechanised inf. regiment at Fayzabad, Badakhshan In June 1983 was released from this position for a failed operation and appointed the deputy commander of 191 mechanised inf. regiment in Ghazni. But in less than a year reappointed to the previous position. He was wounded two times, at the second time he was evacuated to Tashkent.
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