Osvaldas Mikolovich Pikauskas (Russian : Освальдас Миколович Пикаускас ; 1945–1995) was a Soviet and Russian military leader of Lithuanian origin who served as first deputy commander of the Airborne Troops from January 1991 to March 1995.[ 1]
Biography
Osvaldas Pikauskas was born in the village of Duburiai in Soviet Lithuania in 1945 and joined the Soviet Army in 1964 as a private . He graduated from an airborne troops officer school in Ryazan in 1969 and went on to study at the Frunze Military Academy in Moscow . He was promoted to major-general at age thirty-eight. He commanded the 98th Guards Airborne Division between 1982 and 1985.
Pikauskas was made deputy commander of the Soviet Airborne Forces (VDV) in January 1991 as a lieutenant-general . He continued his career in the Russian Federation following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 as a colonel-general of the Russian Army .
He died in March 1995.
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Commander Chiefs of Staff and First Deputy Commander (since 1998) First Deputy Commander (until 1997) Chief of Staff (until 1998) Deputy Commander