Viktor Bondarev

Colonel General Viktor Nikolayevich Bondarev (born 7 December 1959) is a retired Russian military officer who was the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Aerospace Forces from 2015 to 2017. He was the former Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force before it became a branch of the Aerospace Forces, from 2012 to 2015.

Biography Bondarev's career started off with his joining the Soviet Air Force in 1977. By 1981, he had graduated from the Boris Aviation Training Centre for flight crews in Borisoglebsk, and by 1992 had graduated from the Gagarin Air Force Academy. In 2004, he graduated from the Military Academy of the General Staff.

He was a squadron commander of the Boris Aviation Training Centre before becoming a deputy commander and senior pilot of the Attack Aviation Regiment, and as such, participated in the Soviet–Afghan War.

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