Aleksandr Yevteyev

Aleksandr Nikolayevich Yevteyev (; 22 February 1953 – 27 March 2021) was a Soviet and later Russian military officer who held a number of posts in the Soviet Army, reaching the rank of general-lieutenant.

Early life and career Yevteyev was born on 22 February 1953 in the city of Volsk, Saratov Oblast, then part of the Russian SFSR, in the Soviet Union. He entered the Soviet Army in 1971, enrolling that year in the , and graduating in 1975 with a specialty in combined arms command. In 2012, he became the chairman of the council of the International Public Organization "Council of Veterans of Peacekeeping Forces, Local Wars and Armed Conflicts" "Peacemaker". Yevteyev died on 27 March 2021, after a serious and prolonged illness.