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Alexander Lentsov

Alexander Lentsov
Lentsov in 2015
Native name
Александр Иванович Ленцов
Birth nameAlexander Ivanovich Lentsov
Born (1956-12-20) 20 December 1956 (age 68)
Kholmskaya, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Allegiance Soviet Union (to 1991)
 Russia
Service / branch Soviet Airborne Forces
Russian Airborne Forces
 Russian Ground Forces
Years of service1978–2023
RankColonel general
Battles / wars

Alexander Ivanovich Lentsov (Russian: Александр Иванович Ленцов; born 20 December 1956) is a retired Russian Airborne Forces colonel general that held various senior positions, including Deputy Commander of the Russian Airborne Forces from 2009 to 2013 and Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Ground Forces from 2013 to 2020. He also had senior posts with Russian peacekeeping forces deployed abroad in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Nagorno-Karabakh, and Syria, and commanded the 98th Guards Airborne Division from 1996 to 2009.


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