Boris Gromov

Russian military officer and politician · Russia · On the map · Politicians · Born 1943 · age 83

Boris Vsevolodovich Gromov is a Russian politician and former military officer. He was the Governor of Moscow Oblast between January 2000 and May 2012.

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2018Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 1st classAward2014Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 4th classAward2012Order of HonourAwardRussian Federation Presidential Certificate of HonourAward2008Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th classAward2005Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd classAwardOrder of the Friendship of PeoplesAward2003Jubilee medal «10 years of the Withdrawal of Soviet Troops from Afghanistan»AwardOrder "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd classAwardOrder of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 5th classAward1995Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"Award1988Hero of the Soviet UnionAwardOrder of LeninAward1970Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"AwardMore about this1943Born7 November 1943

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With President Dmitry Medvedev, 14 October 2008

With President Medvedev and Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, January 2011

Gromov, then a colonel general, announces withdrawal of Soviet army from Afghanistan in 1989

Awards

Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 1st class2018

Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 4th class2014

Order of Honour2012

Russian Federation Presidential Certificate of Honour2012

Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class2008

Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class2005

Order of the Friendship of Peoples2005

Jubilee medal «10 years of the Withdrawal of Soviet Troops from Afghanistan»2003

Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class2003

Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 5th class2003

Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"1995

Order of Lenin1988

Hero of the Soviet Union1988

Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"1970

Order of the Red Star

Order "For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR", 3rd class

Medal "For Battle Merit"

Medal "For Strengthening of Brotherhood in Arms"

Medal "For the Development of Virgin Lands"

Medal "Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh 2nd class

Order of the Red Banner

Medal "For Impeccable Service", 3rd class

Medal "For Impeccable Service", 2nd class

Medal "For Merit in Upholding the Memory of Fallen Defenders of the Homeland"

About this person

Deployed thrice to fight in the Soviet-Afghan War, Gromov was the last Soviet soldier in Afghanistan on 15 February 1989; he commanded the 40th Army and oversaw the Soviet withdrawal as the last personnel retreated.

Country

Russia