Draft:Yury Grekov

Colonel General Yury Pavlovich Grekov (Юрий Павлович Греков; 13 September 1943 – 18 April 2024) was a Russian army officer who served as the commander of the Ural Military District from 1992 to 1999.

Biography
Yury Grekov was born on 13 September 1943. He joined the Soviet Army in 1962. He graduated from the Leningrad Higher Combined Arms Command School named after S. M. Kirov in 1966.

From 1966 to 1971, he served as a platoon commander and company commander in the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany.

Grekov graduated from the Military Academy named after M.V. Frunze in 1974. From 1974 to 1983 - deputy regiment commander, chief of staff of the regiment, regiment commander, deputy division commander, division commander in the Trans-Baikal Military District.

Grekov graduated from the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR named after K. E. Voroshilov in 1985.

From 1985, he was Chief of Staff and First Deputy Army Commander in the Leningrad Military District.

In 1986, he was the Chief of Staff - First Deputy Commander of the 40th Army as part of a limited contingent of Soviet troops in Afghanistan.

For two years he actively participated in the combat operations of Soviet troops in Afghanistan.

In 1988, he was the commander of the 11th Guards Army in the Baltic Military District. In 1989, he was the first deputy commander of the Transcaucasian Military District, participated in the localization of the Armenian-Azerbaijani armed conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.

On 16 July 1992, Grekov became the commander of the troops of the Ural Military District. In December 1999, he was replaced by Vyacheslav Tikhomirov.

Since January 2000, he was in reserve, and had been an advisor to the Governor of Sverdlovsk Oblast.

Personal life and death
Grekov lived in Yekaterinburg. He died on 18 April 2024, at the age of 80.