Valentin Yakovlev is a well-known Soviet and Russian military man who now holds the rank of colonel-general in reserve. Over the long years of service, Valentin Alekseevich has repeatedly 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, on May 7, 1942, in the village of Novy Toryal, Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. His father died at the front shortly before that, and his mother died in 1947, severely undermining his health during the war years. For some time, Valentin was brought up in an orphanage, and then distant relatives took him into custody. 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 entered the army and was determined to pay military duty to his homeland for the rest of his life. Perseverance and desire to master the military specialty helped to enter the Leningrad Combined Arms School named after V. I. CM. Kirov, from which Yakovlev graduated in 1965. Later 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 hostilities on the legendary cruiser "Slava" in the Mediterranean Sea. Having shown himself excellently, in 1969 Yakovlev was sent to improve his qualifications at the Military Academy. M. V. Frunze. In 1974, he led an infantry regiment in the Black Sea Fleet, as part of 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 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. K. E. Voroshilov. This was followed by regular business trips to various "hot spots", and another leap in the career of the famous general - the post of head of the personnel department under the USSR Ministry of Defense.
Further activities
In 1996, Valentin Yakovlev took one of the key posts in the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation. He held the post for only two years and subsequently decided to quit the service of his own free will, being dissatisfied with his own reorganization decisions in the Armed Forces.
After his dismissal, Yakovlev took up veteran and social work. He created and headed the public association "Club of the Marines". Currently, Valentin is a member of the Council of Veterans of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. He prefers not to dwell on past exploits, and his personal life is developing quite well: a retired colonel-general is raising children and grandchildren.
