Gennady Nikolaevich Troshev
Date of birth March 14, 1947
Place of birth Berlin
Date of death September 14, 2008
Place of death Perm, Russia
Belonging to the USSR → Russia
Rank Colonel General
Commanded the 58th Army
North Caucasus Military District
Battles/wars First Chechen War
Gennady Nikolaevich Troshev(March 14, 1947, Berlin - September 14, 2008, Perm) - Soviet and Russian military leader, colonel general, commander of federal troops during the fighting in Chechnya and Dagestan (1995-2002). Hero of the Russian Federation (1999).
Gennady Troshev graduated from the Kazan Higher Tank Command School (1969), the Military Academy of Armored Forces (1976), and the Military Academy of the General Staff (1988).
He served in tank forces in various positions. Since 1994 - commander of the 42nd Vladikavkaz Army Corps in the North Caucasus Military District. 1995-1997 - Commander of the 58th Army of the North Caucasus Military District. During the First Chechen War - commander of the United Group of Forces of the Russian Ministry of Defense in Chechnya. Lieutenant General (decree of May 5, 1995). In 1997, he was appointed deputy commander of the North Caucasus Military District (NCMD).
In August 1999, he led a group of federal forces that repelled a militant attack on Dagestan. With the beginning of the Second Chechen War, he was commander of the Vostok group of the United Federal Forces in the North Caucasus. Since January 2000 - First Deputy Commander of the Joint Group of Federal Forces in the North Caucasus. Colonel General (February 2000). In April - June 2000 - commander of the United Group of Federal Forces in the North Caucasus. In May 2000 - December 2002. - Commander of the North Caucasus Military District of the North Caucasus Military District. In December 2002, he was appointed commander of the Siberian Military District, but publicly refused this appointment, after which he was transferred to the reserve.
In March 2001, he supported Yuri Budanov, who was accused of murder and rape of the Chechen girl Elza Kungaeva, during the trial. From February 25, 2003 to May 7, 2008 - Advisor to the President of the Russian Federation (dealt with Cossack issues). Acting State Advisor of the Russian Federation, 2nd class (2007).
Died in a plane crash of an Aeroflot-Nord Boeing 737-500 plane within the city of Perm, where Gennady Troshev flew to the sambo tournament at 3:11 am (Moscow time) on September 14, 2008. He was buried in Krasnodar, in the Severny district.
Books about Gennady Troshev
"My war. Chechen diary of a trench general" (2001)
"Chechen relapse (2003)
"Chechen Break" (2008)
Awards of Gennady Troshev
Hero of the Russian Federation (1999) - for the anti-terrorist operation in Dagestan and Chechnya
Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree (June 23, 2008) - for great contribution to ensuring the activities of the President of the Russian Federation and many years of public service
Order of Military Merit (1995)
Order of Friendship of Peoples (1994)
Order "For Service to the Motherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" III degree (1990)
Order of Leon (Abkhazia)
Order named after Akhmat Kadyrov (Chechnya, 2007)
Honorary citizen of the cities: Prokhladny (2000) and Nalchik (2002) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, Makhachkala (2000) of the Republic of Dagestan, Shali (2001) of the Chechen Republic.
Perpetuation of memory
Krasnoznamennaya Street in Grozny was renamed to Name Street Gennady Troshev.
The Star of the Hero of Russia (duplicate) and the personal belongings of General Troshev will be kept in the cadet school in the Yakut village of Chernyshevsky, the opening of which was attended by the general on September 1, 2008. After the plane crash, the school was named after Troshev.
The 1st Dagestan Cadet Corps is named after Troshev.
A new street has been named in Smolensk named after Troshev.
In Kuban named General Troshev called the Kropotkin Cossack Cadet Corps.
In the Volgograd region, the Samolshinskaya cadet boarding school is named after Troshev.
In the name Trosheva named after the high school in Nalchik, where he studied from 1958 to 1965. The decision to perpetuate the memory of Troshev was made by the local government council after the corresponding initiative was taken by the administration of school No. 11, where the Colonel General’s museum was opened. The city authorities also renamed Shkolnaya Street, located next to the educational institution, to General Troshev Street. In addition, it was decided to install a memorial plaque at house No. 136 on Ivanova Street. As the press service of the Nalchik administration noted, it was in this house that he lived Troshev.
Among the 88 killed in the plane crash in Perm was General Gennady Troshev, one of the most respected and beloved Russian commanders by his subordinates.
Shortly before his death, he finished his third and, as it turned out, last book, “The Chechen Break,” which he presented to Rossiyskaya Gazeta. The former commander of a group of troops in the North Caucasus again took up his pen in order, as he himself writes, “to warn everyone against repeating the serious mistakes made in the 90s - both political and military.” Here is an excerpt from the book.
Before his death, General Troshev tried to warn everyone against repeating the mistakes made in the 90s
Diplomats in uniform
One of the main tasks was to convince the civilian population of Chechnya: the army did not come to kill and rob, but only to destroy bandits. Needless to say, just a few years ago many Chechens saw us as occupiers. Therefore, in those autumn days, it was necessary to deal not only with direct duties (that is, leading the troops), but also with “diplomacy” - meeting with the heads of village administrations, elders, clergy, and ordinary residents. And this happened almost every day.
At that time, some leaders reproached me for being too liberal and called me “a good uncle.” But I am convinced that I did the right thing.
I have already mentioned that I was born and raised in these places, I know well the customs and traditions, the Chechen mentality, I know how to behave in a conversation with an old man, and how with a young man. Chechens respect someone who behaves with dignity and does not humiliate the dignity of another, who respects the morals of the mountaineers. After all, you can talk in an ultimatum form - threaten, intimidate, accuse. But a simple resident of a village or a village - a farmer or a cattle breeder - is not to blame for the war, so why count him as an enemy? He goes to negotiations to peacefully resolve the issue, and not to convince me that the bandits are right.
I tried to talk to everyone adequately. If a person is older than me, I addressed him respectfully - to you. He explained clearly what the army and the federal government wanted. At the same time, he did not play around, but spoke the truth. I asked that the negotiators then tell our fellow villagers about our goals and attitude. If I began to dissemble, they would immediately feel the falseness of my words: after all, at such meetings there were usually elders, people wise in life, who distinguished between truth and deception... They believed me. And I immediately believed in the sincerity of their desires for peace - already at the first negotiations in the Shelkovsky district.
Cultural cleansing
What issues were discussed at such meetings? Variety. In the beginning, I listened to people. With one voice they said that they were tired of anarchy and lawlessness, they wanted a normal, firm government to be established. They are disappointed with Maskhadov’s promises and don’t believe him.
Closer to Gudermes, serious difficulties began. From intelligence data, I knew that there were militants in populated areas who were going to resist. But here, too, we again resorted to using the method of “military-people’s diplomacy.” We approached one or another settlement within a “cannon shot” distance (so that we could hit the enemy with fire, but he would not reach us), blocked it, and then invited the local delegation to negotiations. People, as a rule, came - the head of the administration, representatives of the elders, clergy, teachers - from three to ten people.
Sometimes I talked to them for two hours. He convinced us that the troops did not come to destroy houses and kill residents, although we know that there are bandits in the village. We are giving you time to gather the people and talk. I warn you right away: the troops will enter the village without firing. But if someone shoots in the direction of my soldiers, we will immediately return fire.
I said everything honestly. I asked them to explain the situation to the residents and give an answer. If it doesn’t work out peacefully, tell me about it, I convinced the delegation, otherwise the tactics will be different... A few hours later, negotiations were resumed. The elders gave their word that no one would shoot.
After this, units of internal troops and police carried out a clean-up operation under the cover of units of the Ministry of Defense. It was then that the term “cultural cleansing” came into use. For many, this expression caused laughter and outright irritation - they say that there is no need to stand on ceremony with them - one must act harshly. I insisted on my point. At staff meetings, where representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs directly involved in the cleansing operations were also present, he strictly demanded that commanders not engage in looting when inspecting yards and houses.
This tactic found a response. They didn’t shoot us in the back, and in many villages civilians (I’m talking about Chechens) sometimes treated our soldiers with bread and milk - something that had never happened before, if we take the first war. Chechens often came to my command post - they invited me to visit a school, speak at a rally... This indicated that the army in the republic was greeted as a liberator, and not as a conqueror.
“This is Troshev, he won’t shoot”
When troops left one or another settlement, refugees returned there, and those who had a roof over their heads - their houses were not damaged. They were often forced to leave the village by bandits who, on the eve of the arrival of the feds, instilled fear: “The Russians will come and they will cut you all off. Either resist or leave the village.” Of course people were afraid. But, returning to the village, they were convinced that their housing and property were safe and sound. Therefore, after a while, the topic of threats of shelling or any kind of repression was no longer raised at the negotiations. And local Chechens asked, for example, whether it was possible to return to their homes tomorrow. Of course you can. And they returned. Thus, peaceful life in the northern regions of the republic was restored faster.
Of course, not always and not everywhere everything went as smoothly as we would like. But it should be emphasized: the majority of Chechens rejoiced at our arrival in the republic.
There, near Gudermes, I met the Mufti of Chechnya, Akhmat Kadyrov, a man of difficult fate. During the first Chechen war, he supported Dudayev and opposed the entry of Russian troops into Chechnya. But then he decisively broke not only with the bandits, but also with Maskhadov. Kadyrov publicly condemned the actions of the Wahhabis who invaded Dagestan and openly called on the Chechen people to fight the bandits and destroy them.
The method of military diplomacy also paid off in the mountains. There I met with Supyan Taramov. He is from Vedeno. He grew up and studied with Shamil Basayev. In the first war he did not fight against us, but he did not support Russian troops either.
I remember there was such a case. I was negotiating near Kadi-Yurt, but someone really wanted to disrupt them: they provoked local residents, several hundred people (mostly women), and they moved from the village of Suvorov-Yurt in our direction.
They were hostile. As it turned out later, they were told that the troops would wipe Kadi-Yurt off the face of the earth in a few hours. And I arrived there virtually without security: with me there were only a few officers in an infantry fighting vehicle. Having learned about the provocation, I called a couple of helicopters just in case.
They began to circle above us. However, fortunately, military force was not needed. Seeing me, the crowd immediately calmed down. Many recognized me, extended their hands to shake hands... An elderly Chechen woman came out: “People, this is Troshev! He won’t shoot. Disperse! Everything will be fine.”
On September 14, 2008, a Boeing 737 airliner crashed over Perm. Among the other passengers on board was the Hero of Russia - General Gennady Troshev. This is how the life of a “trench general” who went through the entire Chechen war ended absurdly...
Along the military path
Gennady was born on March 14, 1947 in Berlin, in the family of Soviet military pilot Nikolai Troshev. Soon after the boy was born, the family returned to their homeland. Gena spent her childhood in the Caucasus, in Grozny. His father died at 43, and his mother Nadezhda Mikhailovna raised three children alone.
After school, Gennady entered the Kazan Higher Tank Command School: the cadets were fully supported by the state, and his mother still had to raise two younger daughters... Then he graduated from the Military Academy of Armored Forces and the Military Academy of the General Staff.
I had to serve in my native North Caucasus Military District. His career was rapidly going uphill: by 1994, Troshev became commander of the army corps. During the First Chechen War, he commanded the 58th Army, and then headed the United Group of Forces, receiving the rank of lieutenant general. After the end of hostilities, he became deputy commander of the North Caucasus Military District.
Since August 1999, during the counter-terrorism operation in the North Caucasus, Troshev commanded federal troops fighting militants in Dagestan. Then he became the head of the Vostok group, and in April 2000, already with the rank of Colonel General, he headed the United Federal Forces in the North Caucasus. Until December 2002, he commanded the troops of the North Caucasus Military District.
"Dad"
There were legends about General Troshev. Thus, he could stay awake for days, sharing with his subordinates all the hardships of military life (the soldiers lovingly called him “father”). He personally flew over the combat area in a helicopter, and in the battle for Argun he gave commands from the air, from the window. Somehow, in the fog, the helicopter almost ran into a high-voltage line, and only the skill of the pilot Alexander Dzyuba, who had flown through Afghanistan, saved the commander’s life. Another time, the general’s helicopter was shot down and landed right in the cemetery. But no one was hurt.
Troshev tried, where he could, to avoid bloodshed. The Vostok group often managed to take populated areas without a fight. For the operation in Dagestan and the courage shown during military operations in Chechnya, the general was awarded the title of Hero of Russia. The award was presented personally by President Boris Yeltsin.
Unlike his other colleagues, Gennady Troshev was always open to the press and wrote several books about the events in Chechnya, the most famous of which is “My War. Chechen diary of a trench general" (2001).
In December 2002, Troshev received a new appointment - to head the Siberian Military District. And this after so many years of life and career were given to the Caucasus! The general resigned. In February 2003, he took the position of presidential adviser, overseeing Cossack issues. It was rumored that all this was not just like that. They say that the general was seriously guilty: his name was associated with the death of the legendary sixth company of 90 special forces who stood in the way of a two-thousand-strong group of militants trying to break through to the Argun Gorge area. But this is just speculation, there are no direct facts...
Fatal flight
On June 23, 2008, Gennady Troshev was awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree, for his great contribution to ensuring the activities of the President of the Russian Federation and many years of public service.
On the night of September 14 of the same year, Gennady Nikolaevich went to Perm for a sambo tournament. The Boeing 737, Flight 821, which it was flying on, fell onto the railway track during landing. The wreckage of the airliner was scattered over an area of four square kilometers. Everyone on board - 82 passengers and 6 crew members - died. Later it turned out that ethyl alcohol was found in the blood of crew commander Rodion Medvedev...
Boeing-737. There were 88 people on board the crashed airliner: 82 passengers and 6 crew members. None of them managed to survive.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin expressed condolences to the families and friends of the victims. “The government commission will make every effort to investigate the circumstances of the plane crash and provide assistance to the families of the victims,” Putin emphasized.
Numerous condolences come to Russia from abroad. In particular, during telephone conversations with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, words of sympathy and support were conveyed by the Presidents of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, Armenia Serzh Sargsyan and Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko, Chinese President Hu Jintao, the official representative of the Iranian Foreign Ministry, the head of the Estonian Foreign Ministry and other world leaders, public and religious figures.
Governor of the Perm Territory Oleg Chirkunov instructed the region's Ministry of Finance to allocate 8.8 million rubles from the regional government's reserve fund to the Ministry of Social Development to provide financial assistance to the immediate relatives and families of those killed in the plane crash. “The amount of payment for each deceased will be 100 thousand rubles,” said RIA Novosti’s interlocutor.
Relatives of those killed in the plane crash will be paid compensation of 12 thousand rubles (12 minimum wages) and, in accordance with the 2008 amendments to the Air Code, Aeroflot will pay another compensation - up to 2 million rubles for each person killed in the crash.
A street in Grozny will be named after one of the passengers, Colonel General Gennady Troshev, said Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov.
The former commander of the North Caucasus Military District, Hero of Russia, Colonel General Gennady Troshev was heading to the city of Krasnokamsk for a sambo tournament: Troshev was a member of the board of trustees of the Federation of this type of wrestling. According to media reports, the general, at the request of the Federation, interrupted his vacation in order to be in time for the opening of the tournament in memory of Vasily Shvai. In addition, the Perm region is the birthplace of his father.
General Troshev was perhaps the most famous military man in Russia. He was one of the commanders of the Russian army in both Chechen campaigns, rose to the rank of general, commanded a district, liberated his native Grozny from militants, became the main Cossack of the country and more than once came face to face with death.
Troshev Gennady Nikolaevich was born on March 14, 1947 in Berlin. He spent his childhood in Germany, then moved to Moscow, where he entered the Institute of Land Management Engineers. Despite the admonitions and prohibitions of his father, who punished his son “so that you don’t set foot in the army!”, Troshev submitted a report with a request to enroll him in the Kazan Tank School. In 1976 he graduated from the Military Academy of Armored Forces, and in 1988 from the Military Academy of the General Staff of the USSR Armed Forces.
Troshev served in various positions in the tank forces. He was the commander of the 10th Ural-Lvov Volunteer Tank Division in Germany, and then, from 1994 to 1995, the commander of the 42nd Army Corps of the North Caucasus Military District (SKVO). In 1995, he took command of the 58th Army of the North Caucasus Military District, and also commanded the Joint Group of Forces of the Ministry of Defense in Chechnya during the first Chechen War. It was he who developed and carried out the operation to block and destroy gangs in the villages of Karamakhi and Chabanmakhi and liberate the Novolaksky district of Dagestan during the operation to clear the Kadar zone from militants.
In July 1997, Troshev took the post of deputy commander of the North Caucasus Military District; two years later - in August 1999 - he headed the group of federal forces in Dagestan, and in 2000 - the United group of federal forces in the North Caucasus.
From May 2000 to December 2002, Troshev was commander of the troops of the North Caucasus Military District. In February 2003, he was appointed Advisor to the President of the Russian Federation on coordinating the activities of the offices of presidential plenipotentiary representatives in the federal districts to provide methodological guidance to the activities of Cossack societies included in the state register of Cossack societies in the Russian Federation. On March 30, 2004, after the reorganization of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, he was again confirmed as a presidential adviser.
Troshev was also co-chairman of the Board of Trustees of the National Foundation for Public Recognition, the Independent Organization Civil Society and the National Civil Committee for Interaction with Law Enforcement, Legislative and Judicial Bodies.
Gennady Troshev was awarded the title of Hero of Russia (1999) for the anti-terrorist operation in Dagestan and Chechnya; awarded the orders: “For Service to the Motherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR”, III degree (1990), Friendship of Peoples (1994), “For Military Merit” (1995), “Peter the Great. For strengthening the Russian state" (2003). Recipient of the Golden Badge of Honor “Public Recognition” (1999) and the badge of honor “Golden Shield of the Economy” (2004). In 2001, he was awarded the highest award of the International Prizes Foundation - the Order of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker "For increasing goodness on Earth"; laureate of the awards. A.V. Suvorov (2000), named after. G.K. Zhukov - for his outstanding contribution to the development and strengthening of the defense capability of the Russian Federation (2002).
As Troshev’s relatives and colleagues noted, he deserved every award: all the years spent in the Chechen Republic, Troshev tried to deal with conflicts in the region peacefully - by negotiating with the population.
According to Gennady Alekhin, Troshev’s former press secretary, the Colonel General had been planning to start a new job since September. “Literally two weeks ago we talked to him on the phone, and he said: “I’ll still be useful, now I’ll rest a little, and in September I’ll start some new work.” He didn’t say what kind of work it would be, he only said , which “most likely in government agencies,” clarified Gennady Alekhin. He emphasized that Troshev “was surprisingly energetic, not at all like a pensioner.”
In addition, he noted, journalists treated Troshev very well: “It’s not for nothing that he was called “the best newsmaker” in the journalistic community, especially on the events in the Caucasus - on the first and second Chechen campaigns. He, as they say, was in authority among journalists , because he always told the truth, even if it was impartial. His books testify to this." Gennady Alekhin recalled that Troshev’s last book, “The Chechen Breakdown,” was published in March of this year (the first two were “My War” and “The Chechen Relapse”). "There was no talk about the next book. He said: 'Time will tell - maybe I'll write something else,'" he said.
The material was prepared by the editors of rian.ru based on information from RIA Novosti and open sources
years of life 03/14/1947 – 09/14/2008 - Russian military general
Military heritage
The personality of Gennady Troshev has become legendary, both in civilian and military circles. An outstanding, honest, strong, persistent and at the same time very flexible “combat general”, who made serving and defending the fatherland his calling, was respected both among his comrades and among those whom he opposed.
The future military leader, Gennady Nikolaevich Troshev was born in March 1947 in Berlin. He came from the family of an officer, a pilot of a group of Soviet troops stationed in Germany, and a beautiful Terek Cossack woman. The father of the future military leader, Nikolai Nikolaevich Troshev, went through the entire Great Patriotic War and met victory in Berlin.
He met his wife Nadezhda Mikhailovna in Khankala, where he served, they got married in 1946, and a year later they had an heir. In 1958, changes occurred in the views of the high command on the army, and massive reductions in personnel began. Nikolai Troshev was also fired. As a result, the family moves to Nalchik, where Gennady Troshev spent his childhood. Here in 1965 he will graduate from school No. 11, which will later be named after him.
After graduating from school, Gennady Troshev submits documents to the Moscow Institute of Civil Engineering. The father did not want his son to become a military man; the mental wound left by government officials was too strong. But suddenly he falls ill and dies. The young man is faced with the task of providing for his family, Gennady Troshev gets a job at a furniture manufacturing plant, and then in 1966 he enters the Kazan Higher Command Tank School, 3 years later he graduates with honors. The years of service in the biography of Gennady Troshev are a series of directed efforts, hard work and steadfastness in one’s convictions. Time will pass and he will sincerely believe that his father would be proud of him and support his life choice, because he loved the army and this masculine feeling was passed on to his son.
Soldier of the Fatherland
In 1969, with the rank of guard lieutenant, he commanded a platoon in the 20th Guards Army in Juterborg, Germany, under his leadership the platoon was noted as exemplary for two years in a row. Already in 1971 he received command of a company of the same army unit. Gennady Troshev always realized the importance of developing the professional competence of a military commander, so he never tired of acquiring knowledge. From 1973 to 1976 he studied at the Military Academy of Armored Forces. In 1976 he was transferred to the Nikolaev region of the Ukrainian SSR, where Gennady Nikolaevich Troshev served as chief of staff in the 10th separate tank regiment.
In 1978, the tank regiment came under his command. A year later he was again transferred to Tiraspol, here he would command a tank regiment until 1984. In 1988 he graduated from the Academy of the USSR General Staff. Afterwards he headed the command of the 10th Panzer Division located in the GDR. In 1992, Gennady Troshev was sent to Transnistria on a business trip to resolve the interethnic conflict that had broken out. It was here in Bendery that long battles took place, as a result of which the coup was repulsed.
In the fall of 1994 he received a new appointment as commander of the 42nd Army Corps in Vladikavkaz. At the beginning of 1995, the 42nd Corps entered the Chechnya region, and already in October 1995 Troshev became the head of the 58th Army. It was thanks to his extraordinary talent and high military competence that the course of the military campaign in 1995 and 1996 changed in favor of the Russian troops. Despite large-scale victories, peace could not be achieved, the cleared areas could not be brought under post-war control, and smoldering hotbeds flared up again.
In August 1999, the forces of General Troshev’s military group in Dagestan defeated the gangs of several field commanders. Many operations to clear populated areas of militants showed him to be an excellent commander, able to achieve victory without bloodshed. Afterwards, the general headed the military formation that entered Chechnya from Dagestan. Here his peacekeeping diplomatic qualities were revealed.
Realizing that the army was on foreign territory, he tried to gain local support through his personal acquaintance with the respected elders of the settlements; on several occasions he personally participated in negotiations with the elders. The militants did not receive support from civilians; they had to go to remote areas where artillery and aviation could operate. In the fall of 1999 he manages to occupy Gudermes. The peaceful liberation of the city was noted by many representatives of the international community.
In 2000 he was awarded the rank of Colonel General. He was also appointed commander of the North Caucasus Military District.
General Troshev was sincerely surprised by the press’s unfair assessment of the army’s actions. That is why in 2001 “My War. The Chechen Diary of a Trench General” was published, a book about the war in Chechnya, written based on Troshev’s memoirs and diaries. Description of the military operations of the first and second Chechen companies. The military, into whose hands the manuscripts fell, highlighted the unsurpassed order and structure of the material. And in this matter, Gennady Troshev showed diligence and showed the highest level of military education. Later, several more books will be published under his authorship: “My War”, “Chechen Relapse”. He wanted everyone to know the truth about the feat of those people who gave everything to protect their native country, about those who were unfairly criticized by the media.
In December 2002, he refused the offer to take up the post of commander of the Northern Military District, received from Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov. As a result, he is appointed advisor to the President of the Russian Federation and deals with the problems of the Cossacks. The hereditary Cossack did not drop the banner of honor and loyalty to the country here either, and from 2003 to 2008 he took active steps to reorganize the complex and multifaceted model of the Cossack way of life.
In mid-September 2008, General Troshev suddenly died as a result of the crash of the Boeing on which he was flying to Perm. This disaster claimed the lives of 88 people, and a shadow of remembrance was declared in the city for the victims.
Unknown General Troshev
Little is known about the personal life of Gennady Troshev; this is due to the specifics of his service, position and level of decisions made. His wife Larisa Trosheva knew a completely different “general”, a loving husband, a man with many hobbies. In his youth, he played football well, at a professional level, had 1 category in athletics in gymnastics, played the guitar, loved to draw, and in the last years of his career he was great. He mastered billiards and won the championship among civil servants. He left behind two loving daughters Olga and Natalya, they grew up and have children of their own, now his legacy lives on in his descendants.
The memory of General Troshev lives in the hearts of many people throughout Russia. In March 2009, a non-profit foundation for the patriotic education of youth named after him was established. Streets named after General Troshev are open in Smolensk and Krasnodar. Also, two Cossack corps in Kuban in the Volgograd region were named in his honor. Many literary works and songs are dedicated to him, including the biography of Gennady Troshev in documentary photographs.
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