Osvaldas Pikauskas

Osvaldas Pikauskas
Born	(1945-07-15)15 July 1945 Duburiai, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union
Died	March 1995 Moscow, Russian Federation
Allegiance	Soviet Union (to 1991) Russia
Service / branch	Soviet Airborne Forces Russian Airborne Forces
Years of service	1964–1995
Rank	Colonel-general
Commands	98th Guards Airborne Division

Osvaldas Mikolovich Pikauskas (Russian: Освальдас Миколович Пикаускас; 1945–1995) was a Soviet and Russian military leader of Lithuanian origin who served as first deputy commander of the Airborne Troops from January 1991 to March 1995.

Biography

Osvaldas Pikauskas was born in the village of Duburiai in Soviet Lithuania in 1945 and joined the Soviet Army in 1964 as a private. He graduated from an airborne troops officer school in Ryazan in 1969 and went on to study at the Frunze Military Academy in Moscow. He was promoted to major-general at age thirty-eight. He commanded the 98th Guards Airborne Division between 1982 and 1985.

Pikauskas was made deputy commander of the Soviet Airborne Forces (VDV) in January 1991 as a lieutenant-general. He continued his career in the Russian Federation following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 as a colonel-general of the Russian Army.

He died in March 1995.

External links

• "Ne izminivshy prisyage". Litovsky kuryer No. 32 (754).