(1962-03-04) 4 March 1962 (age 62) Uglegorsky, Tatsinsky District, Rostov Oblast, Soviet Union
Allegiance
Soviet Union
Russian Federation
Service/branch
Soviet Airborne Forces
Russian Airborne Forces
Years of service
1983–present
Commands held
138th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
106th Guards Airborne Division
5th Red Banner Army
Russian Airborne Forces
Group of Russian Forces in Syria
Battles/wars
First Chechen War
Second Chechen War
War in Donbass[1] (according to Ukraine)
Russian military intervention in the Syrian civil war
Awards
Hero of the Russian Federation
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" 3rd class
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" 4th class with Swords
Order of Alexander Nevsky
Order of Courage
Order of Honour
Order for Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR 3rd class
Order of Military Merit
Andrey Nikolaevich Serdyukov (Russian: Андрей Николаевич Сердюков; born 4 March 1962) is a Russian Armed Forces colonel general and commander of the Russian Airborne Forces from 2016 to 2022.
Serdyukov served in the Soviet Airborne Forces as a junior officer and rose to battalion command. He graduated from the Frunze Military Academy and became a deputy regimental commander in the Russian Airborne Troops and then a regimental commander. Serdyukov fought in the First Chechen War and served as a deputy brigade commander in Kosovo, participating in the Incident at Pristina airport. Between 2002 and 2003 he led the 138th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade and in 2004 took command of the 106th Guards Airborne Division.
After graduating from the Military Academy of the General Staff in 2009, Serdyukov became deputy commander of the 5th Red Banner Army, taking command of the army in 2011. In 2013, he became deputy commander and then chief of staff of the Southern Military District. While in this position, Serdyukov led troops in the Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation and commanded Russian troops in the Donbass. He became commander of the Russian Airborne Troops in October 2016 and was replaced in June 2022 by Mikhail Teplinsky.
^"SBU chief revealed the name of russian occupational forces commander in Donbass". 5 Kanal. 28 August 2015. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
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