Alexander Ivanovich Otrakovsky(January 3, 1947, Kutaisi, Georgian SSR, USSR - March 6, 2000, Vedeno, Chechen Republic, Russia) - Russian military leader. Chief of the Coastal Troops of the Red Banner Northern Fleet of the Russian Navy (1992-2000). Hero Russian Federation(2000), major general.
Biography
In 1954 he entered the Rustavi high school where he completed 5th grade.
From 1959 to 1966 - the Caucasian Red Banner Suvorov military school(Ordzhonikidze).
From 1966 to 1969 - Tashkent Higher Combined Arms command school them. V. I. Lenin.
From 1969 to 1978 he served in the Marine Brigade Black Sea Fleet.
From 1978 to 1981 - a student of the Military Academy named after M. V. Frunze.
After graduating from the academy, he served in the 336th Marine Brigade of the Baltic Fleet.
From 1984 to 1990 he commanded the 336th Separate Bialystok Order of Suvorov and Alexander Nevsky Marine Corps Brigade of the Twice Red Banner Baltic Fleet.
Since 1990 - Deputy Chief of the Coastal Forces of the Red Banner Northern Fleet of the Russian Navy.
Since 1992 - Chief of the Coastal Troops of the Red Banner Northern Fleet of the Russian Navy.
From January 1995, and then from September 11, 1999 to March 6, 2000, he took part in hostilities in the zone of the counter-terrorist operation "Vostochnaya" to eliminate bandit formations in the Chechen Republic. Acted as Commander of the Marine Corps Group of the Russian Navy in the North Caucasus.
Everyone respectfully and lovingly called "Grandfather".
On the night of March 6, 2000, he suddenly died of acute heart failure at the command post of an airborne assault battalion near the Chechen village of Vedeno. The authors of the book “Step into Immortality” connect the death of A. I. Otrakovsky with his strongest feelings about the fact that the command did not allow his unit to come to the aid of the paratroopers of the 6th company during the battle at height 776.
Family
Son - Ivan Alexandrovich Otrakovsky, participant in hostilities in the Chechen Republic, captain of the marines of the Federation Council, holder of the Order of Courage, medals of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 2nd degree with swords and other military awards. Politician, head of the Russian Orthodox movement "Holy Russia".
Memory
On May 9, 2001, the large landing ship of the Northern Fleet was named "Alexander Otrakovsky".
The memorial plaque was installed in Severomorsk, on the house where Alexander Otrakovsky lived.
Awards
- Hero of the Russian Federation - for services to the Motherland, awarded by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 592 of March 28, 2000 (posthumously),
- Order of Courage
- Order "For Service to the Motherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" 3rd class
- USSR medals.
- RF medals.
Literature
- Belyaev V. N. "Who's Who in the Murmansk Region". Biographical guide. - St. Petersburg Murmansk, 2004;
- Vasiliev S. Ya. “Wish me military happiness!” .. - Murmansk, 2007.
- Dementiev O. V., Klevtsov V. V. “Step into immortality”. - M.: Zvonnitsa-MG, 2007. - 336 p. - ISBN 978-5-88093-146-0.
- Sidzhakh H. I. Scarlet epaulettes of the Kuban and the Caucasus. - Maykop: JSC "Polygraph-South", 2003. - S. 138-139. - 320 s. - ISBN 978-5-7992-0768-7.
Cardiac
Russian troops lost another general in Chechnya. On Monday night, in the village of Vedeno, at his command post, the head of the coastal troops of the Northern Fleet, the commander of the Marine Corps in the federal forces, 53-year-old Major General Alexander Otrakovsky, died of a heart attack. And although this death belongs to the category of "non-combat losses", the general himself was a real fighter. Largely thanks to him, the Marines became the most combat-ready units and at the same time fought with virtually no losses.
The federal grouping lost its first general in January. This was the deputy commander of the North group, Major General Mikhail Malofeev, who died during the storming of Grozny. The next was Alexander Otrakovsky. True, his death was quite peaceful: he died in his sleep from heart failure. This was the third attack.
Otrakovsky's heart began to play pranks even during the first Chechen war. They say it was because he took the deaths of his Marines hard. True, compared with other troops, their losses then were not so many - 64 killed. But for Otrakovsky it was more than enough. As a result, the general even had to be sent to the hospital, to St. Petersburg. But he, having recovered a little, fled from there again to the war.
North Caucasus for Otrakovsky was not a stranger. He was born there, grew up and began his military career - he studied at the Ordzhonikidze Suvorov Military School. Then in 1969 he graduated from the Tashkent Higher Combined Arms Command School and connected his life with the fleet. More precisely, with the marines: nine years in the Black Sea Fleet, then a military academy, and after it, nine years in the Baltic and the Northern Fleet. He went on ocean trips, where he spent a total of nine years again. He was repeatedly offered high and non-dusty positions in Moscow, but he preferred to remain in the army.
In 1995, Otrakovsky again ended up in the Caucasus - he commanded air assault brigades Marines of the Northern Fleet. They were called "polar bears". For military merit Otrakovsky was awarded the Order Courage.
He took into account the experience of the battles and made adjustments to the training system for the marines. As a result, the air assault battalion of the Northern Fleet, which was under his direct supervision, became the best in Russia. The current war has confirmed this.
Last September, Otrakovsky was appointed commander of all marines in Chechnya. Side by side with him fought his son Ivan - captain, commander of a company of marines of the Northern Fleet. Two weeks ago, Ivan received a shell shock, and he was sent to the Arctic. The father had every right to go with his son (all officers and ensigns had already gone home on leave), but refused. He believed that more needed in the war.
He really was needed. And not only as a warrior, but also as a diplomat. “We have a short conversation with the bandits,” Otrakovsky said, “they beat and will beat. normal people, ordinary residents, we find a common, human language. With our combat experience, take any locality easier than winning over people. But the psychology of a Chechen is a delicate thing.”
Considering the subtlety of the Chechen psychology, the general conducted all negotiations with the locals in dress uniform. I brought it with me specially. It made a greater impression on the Chechens than army camouflage and guns. So, for example, he managed to agree on the surrender of the village of Novogroznensky without a single shot.
At the end of last year, the command presented Otrakovsky to the title of Hero of Russia. Now he will become a Hero posthumously.
VYACHESLAV B-GUDKOV, VLADIMIR B-MATYASH
O Trakovsky Alexander Ivanovich - Chief of the Coastal Forces of the Red Banner Northern Fleet, Commander of the Marine Corps in the Chechen Republic, Major General.
Born on January 3, 1947 in the city of Kutaisi (now the Republic of Georgia). Russian. From workers. In 1959 he finished five classes of a secondary school in the city of Rustavi Georgian SSR. In the same year he entered the Caucasian Red Banner Suvorov Military School in the city of Ordzhonikidze (now Vladikavkaz), which he successfully graduated in 1966.
AT Armed Forces USSR since 1966. In 1969 he graduated from the Tashkent Higher Combined Arms Command School named after V.I. Lenin. From 1969 to 1978 he served in various command positions in a separate marine regiment of the Red Banner Black Sea Fleet: from a platoon commander to a marine battalion commander. In 1981 he graduated from the Military Academy named after M.V. Frunze, and then continued to serve as head of the operational department of the marine brigade of the twice Red Banner Baltic Fleet. From November 1984 - commander of the 336th Separate Guards Marine Brigade of the Baltic Fleet (Baltiysk, Kaliningrad Region).
From May 1990 - Deputy Chief, and from November 1992 - Chief of the Coastal Troops of the Northern Fleet.
Major General Otrakovsky A.I. from January to March 1995, he took part in the restoration of constitutional order in the Chechen Republic: commander of the operational group of coastal troops of the Northern Fleet. He acted bravely and skillfully during the storming of Grozny. During that war, he suffered his first heart attack.
From September 10, 1999, he participated in the anti-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus. Being the commander of the naval infantry forces in Chechnya, he was not only a military general, but also a diplomat, relying in his work on local commanders of the Chechen militia.
The brave North Sea general suddenly died of acute heart failure at the command post of the airborne assault battalion near the Chechen village of Vedeno on the night of March 6, 2000. He was buried on March 10, 2000 in the city of Severomorsk, Murmansk Region, on the Alley of Heroes.
At by order of the President of the Russian Federation of March 28, 2000 for the courage, courage and dedication shown in the liquidation of illegal armed groups in the North Caucasus region, Major General Otrakovsky Alexander Ivanovich awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation posthumously.
Major General (1993). He was awarded the Order of Courage (1995), "For Service to the Motherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" 3rd degree (1987), medals.
On May 9, 2001, one of the large landing ships of the Red Banner Northern Fleet was named "Alexander Otrakovsky". A memorial plaque was installed in the city of Severomorsk, Murmansk Region, on the house where the Hero lived.
Memories of the Hero of Russia, Major General Otrakovsky Alexander Ivanovich
The picture shows Hero of Russia Major General Alexander Otrakovsky with his marines at Severny airport in Grozny on February 20, 2000. This is the last lifetime photograph of Alexander Ivanovich. Half a month later, on March 6, 2000, at night, he suddenly died at the command post of the 876th separate airborne assault battalion of the Northern Fleet near the Chechen village of Vedeno. According to one version, his heart, worn out by two Chechen companies, could not bear the prohibition of the higher command to help the 6th company of the Pskov Airborne Division, which was dying at a height of 776.
Subordinates, nine of whom became Heroes of the Russian Federation, called him the "King of the Marine Corps." “The commander from God” is just one of the characteristics taken from the many publications that you can read by typing “General Otrakovsky” in the Internet search engine. There are also many photographs: the large landing ship of the Northern Fleet "Alexander Otrakovsky", Russian President Vladimir Putin lays a wreath at the grave of General Otrakovsky, etc.
“General Gennady Troshev, who arrived to replace Otrakovsky, the deputy commander of the federal forces in Chechnya, said that “difficult tasks lie ahead and I will not change Alexander Ivanovich for anyone.” On December 22, Otrakovsky was appointed as the head of the Andi-Kharochoy direction. In addition to the Marines, he took command of the Airborne Forces ”- from this excerpt from numerous publications about Alexander Otrakovsky alone, one can judge the scale of this man, his value as a military leader. But how did the life of Alexander Otrakovsky develop during his cadet years? In short, the answer is ambiguous, and people who know him well from his studies at TVOKU will confirm this. He was a kind of Robin Hood in the uniform of a cadet. The final exams had already begun when we were gathered in training center in Chirchik, our battalion commander, Colonel Kusov, who addressed us with an inimitable Caucasian accent with an emergency message: “Yesterday in Tashkent, cadet Otrakovsky, who is better known to everyone as a bandit nicknamed “Lemon”, got into a fight with a patrol, and a police colonel passing by ... We will count." What was, was. Alexander, walking around Tashkent, saw how a reinforced patrol was knitting Leninist cadets, and could not pass by. Started hitting. A police colonel drove past in his personal car, was indignant: how is it that the patrol is being resisted ?! I will not go into details, but he also got from the already tied Otrakovsky. So, for the umpteenth time, the question arose of Otrakovsky's expulsion from the school.
But this time it all ended as quickly as ever - the order of the Minister of Defense to award Otrakovsky the military rank of "lieutenant" had already taken place. And very soon, when we said goodbye to the banner of the school on the parade ground, among Korneev, Iordanov, Samsonov and others, standing apart and flaunting their black marine uniforms, stood the happy Sasha Otrakovsky.
Two years later, I came to Otrakovsky in the Cossack Bay, where the Marine Corps of the Black Sea Fleet was stationed. He was already on takeoff - the company commander. The first joyful minutes of the meeting soon began to give way to the feeling that he was upset about something. It was only later that I learned from his friends, who treated him with sincere love and respect, that the brilliant lieutenant Otrakovsky was not so long ago tried by an officer's court of honor for "repaying what he deserved" to an officer who had greatly offended a woman. On his shoulders are no longer cadets, but lieutenant shoulder straps, but he is still the same incorrigible Robin Hood! Alexander later complained to me that all the money had to be given “for the gold teeth of the scoundrel” and there was nothing even to celebrate the meeting. I then laughed and said: "Sasha, I'm only from Hungary, I received a personal assignment in Chop, so let's go for a walk." Sasha sat in a local restaurant, Sasha ordered the song "Birch sap" all the time - he had just returned from many months of standing in the Mediterranean Sea opposite Port Said, where he was fully saturated with nostalgia.
The last time we met was in January 1995 in Mozdok. I was then struck by his surroundings - some downright epic heroes under two meters tall (and this can be seen from the photograph). I immediately felt with what respect, care and even awe they treat their general. I offered him to mark the meeting on my territory - in one of the modules of the task force of the Ministry of Emergency Situations.
First of all, I invited Irina Nazarova, the head physician of the disaster protection center, to a meeting “with a real combat general”. She rushed in so spectacular in her signature jumpsuit with a huge professional video camera on her shoulder. I had not yet had time to introduce them to each other, as Alexander Ivanovich gave the command to his envoy to bring for her a complete set of marine uniforms of the appropriate size.
The feast, full of many events, lasted until late at night. First, along with a set of Marine uniforms for Nazarova, the envoy brought a whole pile of the latest issue of the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper with a huge article dedicated to General Otrakovsky. Then they washed the Order of Courage of the newly awarded guarantor. Then all the same messenger constantly pulled me out of the module to smoke and at the same time complain about his general, who every morning in Grozny sits astride an armored personnel carrier and, without hiding his general's shoulder straps, goes around the positions. “You are friends, dissuade him, maybe he will listen to you.” What could I then answer to this young order-bearing captain? combat general. Somewhere at midnight, a marine colonel who entered the module reported that a plane had arrived from Severomorsk with a special cargo for the general - a container with reindeer meat marinated for barbecue. You have to make a fire. And around - snow, slush, firewood, skewers no. They found everything, they adapted the ramrod from AKM under the skewers.
Only in the morning they calmed down. Alexander Ivanovich and I climbed into the second tier in the module (ordinary stretchers fixed on racks) and slept a little. And already in the morning I saw him off to Grozny to the Northern Group, commanded by Lieutenant General Rokhlin, who graduated from TVOKU a year later than us. This was our last meeting. In parting, I presented him with a nominal watch, a few days earlier handed to me by Minister Shoigu. And he gave me a vest.
... On March 5, 2000, the head of the operational department of the headquarters of the Civil Defense and Emergency Situations of Volgograd called me and said to sad voices: turn on the radio, Russia says goodbye to your legendary friend (in January 1995, he was also with us that night). I got home from work and turned on the TV. On all programs, they broadcast a message about the death of Alexander Ivanovich, read out his biography, showed videos with episodes of his service, and in the following days - his grandiose funeral. Much of what I then saw amazed me: Commander-in-Chief of the Navy Admiral Kuroyedov came to say goodbye to Alexander Ivanovich not as a parade admiral, but indistinguishable from loved ones, dressed in civilian clothes, not only the wives of the Marines, but their husbands did not hide their tears. The son, a handsome grenadier, a marine captain, who also went through Chechnya, said that the father of the officers who allowed unjustified losses, considered his personal enemies. And that's it. I recorded all this on video and then edited a film dedicated to the memory of the famous classmate ...
In 1954 he entered the Rustavi secondary school, where he graduated from the 5th grade.
From 1959 to 1966 - the Caucasian Red Banner Suvorov Military School (Ordzhonikidze).
From 1966 to 1969 - Tashkent Higher Combined Arms School named after. V. I. Lenin.
From 1969 to 1978 he served in the marine brigade of the Black Sea Fleet.
From 1978 to 1981 - a student of the Military Academy named after M. V. Frunze.
After graduating from the Academy, Alexander Ivanovich Otrakovsky served in the 336th Marine Brigade of the Baltic Fleet.
From 1984 to 1990 he commanded the 336th Separate Bialystok Order of Suvorov and Alexander Nevsky Marine Corps Brigade of the Twice Red Banner Baltic Fleet.
Since 1990 - Deputy Chief of the Coastal Troops of the KSF.
Since 1992 - Commander of the Coastal Troops of the KSF.
From January 1995, and then from September 11, 1999 to March 6, 2000, he took part in hostilities in the zone of the counter-terrorist operation "Vostochnaya" to eliminate bandit formations in the Chechen Republic.
Everyone respectfully and lovingly called "Grandfather".
On the night of March 6, 2000, he suddenly died of acute heart failure at the command post of an airborne assault battalion near the Chechen village of Vedeno. The authors of the book “Step into Immortality” connect the death of A. I. Otrakovsky with his strongest feelings about the fact that the command did not allow his unit to come to the aid of the paratroopers of the 6th company during the battle at height 776.
Memory
Awards
- For services to the Motherland, by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 592 of March 28, 2000, the title of Hero of the Russian Federation was awarded posthumously.
- He was awarded the Order of Courage, "For Service to the Motherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" 3rd degree, and medals.