The soldier Vyacheslav Alekseevich Bocharov is a true Hero of our time. Reading the history of his service for the good of the Fatherland, one wonders how many trials he was able to overcome. He participated in the Afghan and two Chechen wars, and was repeatedly wounded. In 2004, he stormed a school building in Beslan, captured by terrorists. Got a bullet in the head and was already a corpse, but survived! We will tell about the military way of a valiant officer in the article.
Biography
Vyacheslav Alekseevich Bocharov was born on 10/17/1955 in the city of Don, Tula region. He spent his childhood in Ukraine, in the city of Sinelnikovo. In 1973 he graduated from high school and entered the Ryazan landing school. Upon his graduation in 1977, he served in the Lithuanian SSR, was the commander of a training platoon at the ensign school.
In 1981-1983 Vyacheslav Alekseevich participated in hostilities in Afghanistan. He was deputy intelligence commander in the 103rd Airborne Division. Once, together with a group of fourteen paratroopers, he was ambushed by terrorists. In battle, the senior lieutenant Bocharov was shot in the legs, but in an immobilized state, he continued to command the guards. For several hours, the paratroopers managed to repel the attacks of the militants, inflict serious losses on them and break out of the encirclement.
Further service
Upon returning from Afghanistan, Vyacheslav Alekseevich Bocharov served in the 106th Tula Airborne Division. In 1990 he graduated from the Military Academy. Frunze in Moscow and received the post of chief of staff of the paratrooper regiment. Since 1993, he served in the Office of the Commander of the Airborne Forces. In 1998, Vyacheslav Alekseevich was invited to the newly created FSB Special Purpose Center and enlisted in the legendary Vympel. In 2000, a soldier in absentia graduated from the Academy of National Economy.
Bocharov took part in two Chechen wars. During the second counter-terrorist operation, he participated in repelling the invasion of Ingushetia by Chechen fighters. During the fighting he was wounded again.
Beslan
09/01/2004 a criminal group of thirty-two terrorists seized a school in North Ossetian Beslan. Hundreds of children and adults were held hostage. Colonel Vyacheslav Alekseevich Bocharov and his unit immediately arrived at the scene. On the third day of the seizure, when explosions erupted in the school, provoking a fire and partial collapse of the building, Bocharov’s group and other special forces units were thrown into a spontaneous assault. Vyacheslav Alekseevich was the first of the FSB officers to break into the school and personally destroy several militants. He was injured, but continued the battle. The fighters of Vympel not only carried out the liquidation of the terrorists, but also evacuated the hostages from the building.
Soon Bocharov received a second wound, this time the hardest. A bullet under the left ear entered the head and exited under the left eye. The colonel had a crushed skull and a damaged brain. With a disfigured face, he was taken out of school unconscious and could not even determine who it was. Vyacheslav Alekseevich was on the lists of the missing, in a number of publications he was called dead. But a few days later the officer came to his senses and wrote his last name to the doctors on paper.
After recovery
It is difficult to imagine how, after receiving the trauma that Bocharov had, one can live at all, and not just continue to be a military man. But an unbending spirit helped him to get out!
Vyacheslav Alekseevich recovered and continued his service at the FSB Special Purpose Center. Until October 2010, he served as deputy chief of the Vympel operational-combat department, and then resigned. In 2014, he became a member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, from 2015 he was first deputy secretary of the RF OP, and in April 2017 he received the post of secretary of the RF OP.
Now Vyacheslav Alekseevich Bocharov is engaged in active social and veteran work, and also conducts patriotic education of the population and youth. He is president of the 21st Century Soldiers Against Wars Foundation and secretary of the Russian Association of Heroes of the USSR and the Russian Federation. In addition, he holds the positions of Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Union of Veterans of Afghanistan and Deputy Chairman of the Children's Fund. In 2018, he was a confidant of V. Putin in the presidential election.
