Maev General Colonel Biography

His name is known to any person, at least somehow connected with armored vehicles. And professional tankers not only know him very well, but also respect human qualities for exceptional professionalism and rare for people of this level - primarily for honesty and courage to defend a point of view, which always turned out to be true, and also for great human kindness. Military holiday "Tanker Day" on the territory of the armored museum in Kubinka near Moscow.

The head of the Main Automobile Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Colonel General Sergei Mayev answers questions from journalists. His parents were engaged in logging. Then it was an almost strategic industry - the country probably required more quality wood than cast iron and steel. He worked as a logger and high school student Seryozha Maev during his summer holidays.

According to him, he no longer met more difficult physical labor in his life. Once at school, a poster caught his eye, depicting a tankman in a black overalls and a ribbed helmophone. As if with a lightning pierced. I will only become a tankman - the teenager decided. And fate seemed to hear - and everything in his life began to take shape so that from armor, roaring engines and mud of caterpillar tracts, he could no longer leave.

Maev with veterans-testers of the tank "training ground" in Kubinka. He served in the north of the GDR in the city of Schverin. In the year, in the rank of senior lieutenant, he passed the exams and was enlisted by the listener of the Military Academy of Armored Forces. Marshal of the Soviet Union R. I Malinovsky. The case, I must say, is extraordinary - to enter the military academies usually sent officers who had much higher ranks.

Probably fate. He graduated from the Academy with honors from the year, was appointed deputy commander of the battalion of the Guards Tank Regiment for the technical unit of the 4th Guards Tank Kantemirov Division, stationed in Naro-Fominsk, Moscow Region. There was such a saying: if I got into the Kantemirov division, proud, and if you didn’t get it, rejoice. It was really difficult to serve in the division, which was sometimes called the "courtier".

She was never “at court”, but she had to confirm her guards status daily. The years of service in Kantemirovka, Sergei Alexandrovich, recalls as one of the best in his life. And the memory of him in the history of this glorified connection is still stored. And at all solemn events in the division - he is a welcome guest. In the year by the decision of the Military Council of the Moscow Military District, Lieutenant Colonel-Engineer Maev Sergey Alexandrovich was enrolled as a listener of the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union named after And this was a turning point in his military biography.

He entered the elite of the Armed Forces. Moreover, in the warring elite - there was already a war "behind the river", in Afghanistan. The Academy of the General Staff S. Maev graduated from the year, and with the in a limited contingent of the Soviet troops in Afghanistan, the deputy commander of the Army for weapons in Afghanistan. He personally took a direct part in six combat operations.

For manifested courage and heroism, he was awarded two orders of the Red Star. Maev in Kubinka after the inspection of the Alyosha tank. It was in Afghanistan that Sergey Alexandrovich came to the conclusion about the need to create a tank support combat vehicle. Few understood him and supported him. Today, only the Russian army has the car, which received the name "Terminator".

Although, I must admit, its role in the modern war is not yet fully realized. After Afghanistan, the service of Sergei Alexandrovich was held in the Transcaucasian Military District. During this period, a terrible earthquake in Spitaka, which claimed more than 25 thousand human lives, accounted. Seven hours after the earthquake, Maev was at the epicenter of a natural disaster.

He left in Moscow on January 31 of the year. In the USSR there was a turning point. The uniqueness of the service of Sergei Aleksandrovich is that he went through all the steps of the army service in his direction, from the deputy commander of the tank company in the technical unit to the deputy commander in chief of the Ground Forces of the Soviet Army and the head of operation of the weapons and military equipment of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

From for the year S. Maev - Deputy Commander -in -Chief of the Ground Forces for Armament. In the year he was awarded the title of Colonel General. It was the most difficult period in the history of our country. The union collapsed. Unified yesterday the armed forces were pulled through the National Republics. All this was complicated by the need to withdraw a huge amount of military equipment from the territory of Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Mongolia into the territory of our country.

Hundreds of thousands of weapons and military equipment had to be distributed, repaired, serviced and stored for various bases of weapons and military equipment created in our country. And all this was done by virtue of his official duties Sergey Alexandrovich Mayev.Bloody events in Chechnya and guidance of the constitutional order in the North Caucasus also did not pass by this person.

From the year, Colonel General S. Maev headed the Main Autobonanka Directorate and at the same time was the head of the operation of the arms and military equipment of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. Maev at one of the exhibitions "Euroster" examines the latest mm gun for a promising "leopard". Including for the development of new samples of auto-crossed equipment, its production at the enterprises of the military-industrial complex and providing new types of troops of our country with new equipment.

But this is when everything is fine in the country. What was we with us? The dashing nineties. The question of new technique did not stand. The question was: whether we need a powerful army in general and armored vehicles, in particular. Many in power, including those who determined military policy, then argued that the times of major military conflicts passed.

The armed forces should be compact, almost decorative. And armored vehicles - in general, have outlived our century, we do not need steel dinosaurs. From the perspective of today, it seems incredible how the head of Gabta managed not only to maintain the tank power of Russia, but also to protect many directions to strengthen this power. In a truncated form, but experimental design work continued to create new samples, on a deep modernization of the existing armored vehicles.

And that armored technique, which best manifests itself in its own, exists in the Russian army to a large extent thanks to Sergei Alexandrovich Maev. In the year, by decree of the President of the Russian Federation, Sergei Aleksandrovich was assigned the highest class rank - "Acting State Counselor of the 1st Grade." Having quit from the armed forces by age, S.

Maev quite successfully worked in responsible government posts. But in the soul, he still remained a tankman. Sergei Alexandrovich visited almost all international exhibitions, where armored vehicles were demonstrated. And his judgments in the quality of tanks that many countries produce today have always been distinguished by deep knowledge of the subject. Therefore, both our designers and foreign, if they had such an opportunity seemed to have been listening to his opinion.

I myself witnessed an interesting conversation between Maev and a German officer-tankman who had a lot of service experience. In the end, the German admitted that even the Leopard of the latest model is unlikely to win a dueling battle with modernized t or that confirmed this. Maev always met at exhibitions not only with NATO armored vehicles, but also with the means of damage to the tanks.

Analyzes the information received. And he tries to bring her to the warring tankers and their commanders. There, for the first time, the Alyosha TBV TBV TBV tank was first openly shown. After examining the tank, Maev talked with testing tankers. The conversation was in a professional language. Today, retired colonel General S. Maev works in the Central Research-Research Automobile and Automobile Institute of Nami as an executive director for special projects.

Maev always examined German armored vehicles at international exhibitions with interest. Today it is on it that they take Victory parades. Currently, S. Maev is a curator of seven development work as part of the state defense order for the needs of law enforcement agencies. He did not lose contact with the defenders of the Fatherland. We wish you good health and success in further fruitful work for the good of the Motherland.