Valentin Yakovlev is a well-known Soviet and Russian military, now residing in the rank of reserve colonel general. Over the many years of service, Valentin Alekseevich more than once had visited “hot spots” around the world, for which he was awarded many awards.
Early biography
Valentin Yakovlev was born in the midst of the Great Patriotic War, May 7, 1942, in the village of New Torial Mari ASSR. His father died at the front shortly before, and his mother died in 1947, severely undermining his health during the war years. For some time, Valentine was brought up in an orphanage, and then distant relatives took him to guardianship. The young man received the usual secondary education for those years and after school got a job as a driver.
Thoughts about military service did not leave Valentine, who grew up in difficult years for the country. In 1961, he enlisted in the army and firmly decided to pay military duty to his homeland for the rest of his life. Perseverance and desire to master a military specialty helped to enter the Leningrad Combined Arms School named after CM. Kirov, which Yakovlev graduated in 1965. Subsequently, he was assigned to the Marine Corps and sent to serve in the Baltic Fleet.
Military career
In 1966, Valentin Yakovlev led one of the infantry platoons, and then a whole company in the Black Sea Fleet. The command entrusted him with participation in the fighting on the legendary cruiser "Glory" in the Mediterranean Sea. Proving himself excellently, in 1969, Yakovlev was sent to advanced training at the Military Academy. M.V. Frunze. In 1974, he led the infantry regiment in the Black Sea Fleet, in which he took part in military conflicts off the coast of Egypt and Israel. Later, Valentin served as chief of staff and commander of a separate motorized rifle division in the Odessa military district.
Having completed many of the most important tactical tasks in Afghanistan, Vietnam and Egypt, Valentin Yakovlev rose to the rank of general. Before heading the whole army corps of the Odessa district in 1984, he underwent special training at the Military Academy of the General Staff of the USSR named after K.E. Voroshilov. This was followed by regular business trips to various "hot spots", and the next leap in the career of the famous general was the post of head of the personnel department at the USSR Ministry of Defense.
