In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Anatolievich and the family name is Shamanov.
Vladimir Shamanov
MP
Владимир Шаманов
official portrait, 2010
Member of the State Duma (Party List Seat)
Incumbent
Assumed office 5 October 2016
Chairman of the Defence Committee of the State Duma
In office 5 October 2016 – 12 October 2021
Preceded by
Vladimir Komoyedov [ru]
Succeeded by
Andrey Kartapolov
2nd Governor of Ulyanovsk Oblast
In office January 19, 2001 – November 15, 2004
Preceded by
Yury Goryachev
Succeeded by
Maria Bolshakova (acting)
Sergey Morozov
Personal details
Born
15 February 1957 (1957-02-15) (age 67) Barnaul, Altai Krai, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Political party
United Russia
Spouse
Lyudmila Shamanova
Education
VAGSH
Awards
Hero of Russian Federation
Signature
Military service
Allegiance
Soviet Union Russian Federation
Branch/service
Russian Airborne Forces
Years of service
1978–2016
Rank
Colonel General
Commands
328th Guards Parachute Regiment
58th Army
Russian Airborne Forces
Battles/wars
First Nagorno-Karabakh War
Operation Goranboy
First Chechen War
First Battle of Grozny
Battle of Bamut
Dagestan War
Second Chechen War
Battle of Grozny
Russo-Georgian War
Battle of Kodori Valley
Vladimir Anatolievich Shamanov (Russian: Владимир Анатольевич Шаманов, born 15 February 1957) is a retired Colonel General of the Russian Armed Forces who was Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Airborne Troops (VDV) from May 2009[1] to October 2016 and a Russian politician. After his retirement in October 2016, Shamanov became head of the State Duma Defense Committee.
^Russia Promotes Officer Accused of War Crimes. Time. June 4, 2009
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of the Russian Federation. On 26 May 2009 Lieutenant-General Vladimir Anatolevich Shamanov became the commander of the VDV, replacing Lieutenant-General...
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Russian Airborne Troops. In January 2016, VDV commander General Colonel VladimirShamanov announced that a new range near Kamyshin would be built in the spring...
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of the Russian Armed Forces. State Duma Defense Committee Chairman VladimirShamanov, citing reported casualties of Russian PMCs, said the Russian parliament...
General VladimirShamanov "calls Chechens animals, monkeys, gorillas and thus provokes his soldiers against them." According to journalist Vladimir Voronov...
their superiors and were not punished even when investigated (the story of Vladimir Glebov serving as an example of such policy). Television and newspaper...
order to damage the reputation of Russian troops. Russian general VladimirShamanov dismissed accountability for the abuses in the village saying "Don't...