Alexey Maslov

{{Infobox military person

| honorific_prefix=General of the Army

| name = Alexey Maslov

| native_name = Алексей Фёдорович Маслов

| native_name_lang = ru

| image = Col Gen Maslov.jpg

| image_size = 200px

| caption = Maslov in 2004

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1953|09|23|df=yes}}

| death_date = {{death date and age|2022|12|25|1953|09|23|df=yes}}

| birth_place = {{Ill|Panskoye|ru|Панское (Курская область)}}, Kursk Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union

| death_place = Burdenko Main Military Clinical Hospital, Moscow, Russia

| allegiance = {{flag|Soviet Union}} (to 1991)
{{flag|Russia}}

| branch = {{army|USSR}}
{{army|RUS}}

| branch_label = Branch

| serviceyears = 1970–2011

| rank = General of the army

| commands = Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Ground Forces

| alma_mater = {{ubl|

|Kharkov Higher Tank Command School

|Malinovsky Armored Forces Academy

|General Staff Academy

}}

Alexey Fyodorovich Maslov ({{langx|ru|Алексей Фёдорович Маслов}}; 23 September 1953 – 25 December 2022) was a Russian Ground Forces general of the army who was Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces from 2004 to 2008 and Senior Russian Military Representative to NATO from 2008 to 2011.

Biography

Born on 23 September 1953 in Panskoye, Kursk region, Alexey Maslov was educated at the Kharkov Higher Tank Command School. His first service tours were in the Carpathian Military District, where he served as tank platoon, company, and battalion commander. In 1984, he earned a degree at the Tank Academy and was appointed regiment commander (1986) and, later, deputy division commander within the Central Group of Forces in Czechoslovakia. From 1990 to 1994, General Maslov served as deputy division commander, Volga-Ural Military District and, in 1994, assumed command of 15th Guards 'Mozyr' Tank Division, at Chebarkul within the same district.Kommersant, https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/548978.

In 1998, General Maslov graduated from the General Staff Academy and took up the post as deputy commander for training, within the then Transbaikal Military District.

In 1999, he became Chief of Combat Training in the Siberian Military District. In March 2000, he was appointed chief of staff and first deputy army commander of 36th Combined Arms Army within the Siberian Military District.

From June 2001 to 2003, General Maslov served as commander of 57th Army Corps in the Siberian Military District.Federation of American Scientists, [http://ftp.fas.org/irp///world/russia/fbis/NorthCaucasusMD.htm North Caucasus MD] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160117081647/http://ftp.fas.org/irp///world/russia/fbis/NorthCaucasusMD.htm |date=17 January 2016 }} On 22 March 2003 he was appointed chief of staff & First Deputy Commander, North Caucasus Military District. He later became First Deputy Commander and Chief of Staff of the Ground Forces.

By a Presidential Decree of 5 November 2004 Alexey Maslov assumed the duties of Ground Forces Commander-in-Chief, succeeding General Nikolai Kormiltsev. As Commander-in-Chief, he started to increase the number of contract soldiers in the Russian Ground Forces. He was promoted to the rank of General of the Army on 15 December 2006.

In August 2008, he stepped down from the position of the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Ground Forces, then moved to the Russian Military Representative to NATO.{{Cite web |url=http://www.kommersant.com/page.asp?id=915013 |title=.Kommersant, July 23, 2008 |access-date=15 August 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606092602/http://www.kommersant.com/page.asp?id=915013 |archive-date=6 June 2011 |url-status=dead }} He was replaced by General of the Army Vladimir Boldyrev, former Commander of the Volga-Urals Military District.[http://www.mil.ru/eng/1862/12068/12088/12220/12240/index.shtml] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080505015631/http://www.mil.ru/eng/1862/12068/12088/12220/12240/index.shtml|date=5 May 2008}} He retired from active duty in October 2011.

Maslov died unexpectedly at the Burdenko Main Military Clinical Hospital, Moscow on 25 December 2022, at the age of 69. His death has been regarded as suspicious.{{cite news |title=Умер экс-главком сухопутных войск Алексей Маслов |url=https://www.rbc.ru/rbcfreenews/63a82a489a7947f5d4fee82a |access-date=25 December 2022 |publisher=RBC |date=25 December 2022}}{{cite web |last1=Quinn |first1=Allison |title=Second Russian Defense Sector Bigwig Dies in Two Days |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/alexei-maslov-is-second-russian-defense-sector-bigwig-to-die-in-two-days |website=The Daily Beast |access-date=29 December 2022 |date=December 29, 2022}} He was buried at the Federal Military Memorial Cemetery.{{cite news |title=МАСЛОВ Алексей Фёдорович (1953 – 2022)|url=http://moscow-tombs.ru/by-years/maslov_af/|access-date=25 February 2025 |language=Russian}}

Alexey Maslov

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