Valentyn Danylovych Boryskin (Ukrainian: Валентин Данилович Борискін; 6 February 1942 - 8 January 2013), was a Soviet and later Ukrainian Army officer who was the commander of the Kyiv Military District in post-independence Ukraine in 1992. He was the first head of the Academy of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from 1992 to 1997. He was a candidate of Military Sciences, and a lecturer. He was an honorary member of the Military Intelligence Veterans Fund of Ukraine.
Valentyn Danylovych Boryskin (Ukrainian: Валентин Данилович Борискін; 6 February 1942 - 8 January 2013), was a Soviet and later Ukrainian Army officer who was the commander of the Kyiv Military District in post-independence Ukraine in 1992.
He was the first head of the Academy of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from 1992 to 1997. He was a candidate of Military Sciences, and a lecturer. He was an honorary member of the Military Intelligence Veterans Fund of Ukraine.
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Biography Valentyn Boryskin was born in Ozerki, Ryazan Oblast on 6 February 1942. His father, Danil Nikitovich, a mathematics teacher, volunteered for the front in 1941, commanded a mortar battery and died at the front (according to some sources, a month after the birth of his son, according to others, in the spring of 1943). After graduating from high school, Boryskin worked for some time as a physical education and military teacher in a high school. From 1961 to 1963, he served in tank troops in the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany. In 1966, he graduated from the Kharkov Guards Higher Tank Command School. After graduating from the school he held the positions of tank platoon commander and tank company commander in the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany. In 1968, he took part in Operation Danube, the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. He served in the positions of tank platoon commander, tank company commander, deputy unit commander, unit commander. From 1970 to 1973 Boryskin studied at the Malinovsky Military Armored Forces Academy, was a Suvorov scholarship recipient, and graduated from the academy with a gold medal. From 1973 to 1979, he served in the Byelorussian Military District as…
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Family
Boryskin had two sons, Yuriy (1960-2021) and Oleksandr.
Yuriy graduated from the Frunze Military Academy in 1991, and served in the Ukrainian Army, with honors. He died in hospital of COVID-19 in November 2021. He was married, and had a daughter and a son. Oleksandr, who is a lieutenant colonel, serves in the troops of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine.