Valentyn Boryskin

Valentyn Danylovych Boryskin (Ukrainian: Валентин Данилович Борискін; 6 February 1942 - 8 January 2013), was a Soviet and later Ukrainian Army officer who was the commander of the Kyiv Military District in post-independence Ukraine in 1992.

He was the first head of the Academy of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from 1992 to 1997. He was a candidate of Military Sciences, and a lecturer. He was an honorary member of the Military Intelligence Veterans Fund of Ukraine.

Biography Valentyn Boryskin was born in Ozerki, Ryazan Oblast on 6 February 1942. His father, Danil Nikitovich, a mathematics teacher, volunteered for the front in 1941, commanded a mortar battery and died at the front (according to some sources, a month after the birth of his son, according to others, in the spring of 1943). He was buried on 11 January at the Baikove Cemetery. and Oleksandr.

Yuriy graduated from the Frunze Military Academy in 1991, and served in the Ukrainian Army, with honors. He died in hospital of COVID-19 in November 2021. He was married, and had a daughter and a son. Oleksandr, who is a lieutenant colonel, serves in the troops of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine.