Osvaldas Pikauskas

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]

Osvaldas Pikauskas
Born(1945-07-15)15 July 1945
Duburiai, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union
DiedMarch 1995
Moscow, Russian Federation
Allegiance Soviet Union (1964-1991)
Russian Federation (1991-1995)
Service/branch Soviet Army
Russian Army
Years of service1964 - 1991
1991 - 1995
RankColonel-general
Commands held98th Guards Airborne Division

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 Troops (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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References
  1. "The Commanders of Today's Russian Airborne Forces" (1 June 1995). Jane's Intelligence Review. Retrieved 11 April 2012.
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