| Osvaldas Pikauskas | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1945-07-15)15 July 1945 Duburiai, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Died | March 1995 Moscow, Russian Federation |
| Allegiance |  Soviet Union (to 1991) Russia |
| Service | Soviet Airborne Forces Russian Airborne Forces |
| Years of service | 1964–1995 |
| Rank | Colonel-general |
| Commands | 98th Guards Airborne Division |
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.
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.
References
- "The Commanders of Today's Russian Airborne Forces" (1 June 1995). Jane's Intelligence Review. Retrieved 11 April 2012.
External links
- "Ne izminivshy prisyage". Litovsky kuryer No. 32 (754).
| Military offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded byPavel Grachev (Soviet Airborne Forces) |
First Deputy Commander of the Russian Airborne Forces 1991–1995 |
Succeeded byAlexander Chindarov |
| Leadership of the Russian Airborne Forces | ||
|---|---|---|
| Commander |  | |
| Chiefs of Staff and First Deputy Commander (since 1998) | ||
| First Deputy Commander (until 1997) | ||
| Chief of Staff (until 1998) | ||
| Deputy Commander | ||