Biography of General Kolesnikov

Army General was born in the family of a builder-builder. After graduation in Omsk in military service in the Soviet Army, a cadet. In the city of officer, he began the platoon commander for the repair of combat vehicles, a senior tank technician in the motorized rifle regiment of the motorized rifle division of the Far Eastern Military District. In the future, he held various technical positions of the company, battalion and regimental links in the same division.

Malinovsky was appointed commander of the tank regiment in the south of the Guards Motor Rifle Division of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany. Since February, in March of Kolesnikov, Kolesnikov was transferred to the Kiev Military District and appointed commander of the Guards Tank Division, and in May in June, Kolesnikov was appointed chief of staff-the 1st deputy commander in chief of the southern troops, and in October G.

During the events of August, heading large formations, associations and headquarters, M. Kolesnikov showed extraordinary organizational abilities in the management troops. In September, in December, being in this post, M. Kolesnikov actively dealt with the construction of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In the difficult political and economic conditions that have developed, he emphasized on maintaining the striking power of the strategic missile forces, trying to prevent violation of the nuclear-nuclear parity with the United States.

Thanks to his perseverance, the Topol-M mobile complex was finalized and adopted, and the systems of automation of the control of troops control in the General Staff and other bodies of the Central Administration of the Armed Forces began to be introduced. After the dismissal of the Minister of Defense, P. Grachev, in June-July, Kolesnikov temporarily acted as Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation.

In October, his candidacy was later proposed by the President of Russia to the heads of states - participants of the Commonwealth of the Independent CIS states for the appointment of the chief of staff to coordinate military cooperation of the CIS participants. However, the statement did not take place. Kolesnikov was seconded to the State Technical Commission under the President of the Russian Federation with abandonment in military service.

In December next year, resigned. He was buried in Moscow at the Troekurovsky cemetery.