Alexander Lentsov

Alexander Lentsov
Alexander Lentsov
	Lentsov in 2015
Native name	Александр Иванович Ленцов
Birth name	Alexander Ivanovich Lentsov
Born	20 December 1956; Kholmskaya, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Allegiance	Soviet Union (to 1991); Russia
Branch	Soviet Airborne Forces; Russian Airborne Forces; Russian Ground Forces
Years of service	1978–2023
Rank	Colonel general
Battles / wars	Soviet–Afghan War; First Chechen War; Bosnian War (IFOR); Second Chechen War; Russo-Georgian War; Russo-Ukrainian War; Second Nagorno-Karabakh War (peacekeeping); Syrian Civil War (expeditionary force);

Alexander Ivanovich Lentsov (Russian: Александр Иванович Ленцов; born 20 December 1956) is a retired Russian Airborne Forces colonel general that held various senior positions, including Deputy Commander of the Russian Airborne Forces from 2009 to 2013 and Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Ground Forces from 2013 to 2020. He also had senior posts with Russian peacekeeping forces deployed abroad in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Nagorno-Karabakh, and Syria, and commanded the 98th Guards Airborne Division from 1996 to 2009.