Valery Baranov (soldier)
Valery Petrovich Baranov is a retired colonel general of the Internal Troops of Russia.Biography
Baranov was born on 16 November 1948 in Orenburg Oblast. He graduated from the , the Military Armored Forces Academy, the Academy of the General Staff, and the .
Baranov served as the deputy commander-in-chief of the forces of the Moscow Military District for combat training and as the deputy commander-in-chief of forces of the North Caucasus Military District from July 2000 to October 2001. He commanded the united group of the troops in the North-Caucasian region since August 2002.
He held the post of the deputy commander-in-chief of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia since September 2003 until May 2004.
On 9 May 2004 he lost a leg during the assassination of Akhmad Kadyrov in Grozny, Chechen Republic, Russian Federation.
Baranov retired in 2008. He participated in the writing of the 12-volume Great Patriotic War history Великая Отечественная война 1941—1945 годов. Baranov helped write the book История внутренних войск.
He is married and has two children and one granddaughter.
