Vladimir Bulgakov

Colonel General Vladimir Vasilyevich Bulgakov (born 1 January 1949) is a Russian retired military officer. He last served as the commander of the Far Eastern Military District from 2006 to 2009, and previously as the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Ground Forces from 2003 to 2006. His last promotion was to colonel general in 2001 and was awarded the title Hero of the Russian Federation in 2000.

Biography Vladimir Bulgakov was born on 1 January 1949 in Belaya Kalitva. His father Vasily Nikolayevich was a front-line soldier who worked at mine No. 34 as a coal miner, and his mother Anna Panteleyevna was a housewife. After graduation in the summer 1971, he commanded a tank platoon, a tank company and a tank battalion in the Central Group of Forces in Czechoslovakia. The military ranks of senior lieutenant, captain and lieutenant colonel were awarded ahead of schedule. In 1995, he was the Deputy Commander of the 58th Combined Arms Army of the North Caucasus Military District. He was an active participant in the hostilities during the First Chechen War, he led the fighting in the spring and summer of 1995 in the mountainous part of Chechnya, in particular, operations to capture the regional centers of Vedeno and Shatoi. He used very successfully used tactical helicopter landings.

In 1997, Bulgakov graduated from the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia and was appointed commander of the 8th Guards Army Corps of the North Caucasus Military District in Volgograd. In this position, in August 1999, he participated in repelling the invasion of Chechen fighters into the Republic of Dagestan, On 28 March 2000, Bulgakov became the Chief of Staff and First Deputy Commander of the North Caucasian Military District. In July 2003, he became the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces. On 8 September 2006, Bulgakov became the Commander of the Far Eastern Military District. In January 2009, left the post as the commander the Far Eastern Military District. He currently lives in the city of Rostov-on-Don.

Bulgakov is a candidate of military sciences.