Alexander Lentsov

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Alexander Lentsov
Native name	Александр Иванович Ленцов
Birth name	Alexander Ivanovich Lentsov
Born	(1956-12-20) 20 December 1956 (age 67) Kholmskaya, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Allegiance	Soviet Union (1974–1991) Russia (1991–Present)
Service / branch	Russian Airborne Forces Russian Ground Forces
Years of service	1978–present
Rank	Colonel general
Battles / wars	Soviet–Afghan War First Chechen War Bosnian War (SFOR) Second Chechen War Russo-Georgian War Russo-Ukrainian War Second Nagorno-Karabakh War (peacekeeping) Syrian Civil War (expeditionary force)

Alexander Ivanovich Lentsov (Russian: Александр Иванович Ленцов; born 20 December 1956) is a Russian colonel general that held various senior positions, including deputy commander of the Russian Airborne Forces from 2009 to 2013 and deputy commander of the Russian Ground Forces from 2013 to 2020. He also had senior posts with Russian peacekeeping forces deployed abroad in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Nagorno-Karabakh, and Syria, and commanded the 98th Guards Airborne Division from 1996 to 2009.

Lentsov was born on 20 December 1956 in Kholmskaya, Krasnodar Krai, in the Soviet Union. His military education includes graduating from the Ryazan Guards Higher Airborne Command School in 1978, from the Frunze Military Academy in 1989, and from the General Staff Academy in 2008. After 1978 he first served in command positions at the platoon, battalion, regimental, and division levels, and fought in the Soviet-Afghan War and the Chechen Wars.^[1]

He was promoted to lieutenant general in 2011 and colonel general in 2014.

Since 2020 he has served as an advisor to the Minister of Defence.^[2]

On April 25, 2023, he was appointed commander of the Russian peacekeeping contingent in Nagorno-Karabakh.^[3]

• Order of Merit to the Fatherland, 4th class^[1]
• Order of Courage^[1]

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