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Valery Solodchuk
Russian lieutenant general From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Valery Nikolaevich Solodchuk (Russian: Валерий Николаевич Солодчук; born 24 March 1971) is a Russian army officer who is current commander of the Central Military District and joint group of forces "Center". He previously commanded the 36th Combined Arms Army of the Russian Armed Forces and the "Kursk" joint group of forces during the Russian invasion of Ukraine from 2024 to 2025.[1]
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After studying at the Leningrad Suvorov Military School, Solodchuk entered the Ryazan Airborne Command School, which he graduated from in 1992. He served in the positions of platoon commander to chief of staff of a regiment. In 2004 he graduated from the Combined Arms Academy of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.[2]
Solodchuk graduated from the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia in 2012, and between 2012 and 2014 commanded the 7th Guards Mountain Air Assault Division of the Russian Airborne Forces. Between fall 2014 and late spring 2015 he was commander of the 1st Army Corps (DPR), operating in Donetsk, Ukraine of the 12th Reserve Component Command of the Southern Military District.[3] Between 2015 and 2017 he was Deputy Commander of the 5th Combined Arms Army of the Eastern Military District, and then from 2017 to 2020 Chief of Staff of the 36th Combined Arms Army, stationed in Buryatia. In January 2020 he became commander of the 36th Army.[4] In December 2021 he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General.[5]
2022 invasion of Ukraine
At the beginning of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Solodchuk's command led the unsuccessful Battle of Kyiv. Invading from Belarus, a substantial portion of the 36th Army were stopped, then repelled by the Ukrainian Armed Forces west of Kyiv in March 2022.[6] According to a call intercepted by Ukrainian intelligence, Solodchuk was almost shot in the same year while confronting rioting troops.[7] The SBU claimed that he was one of the general responsible for an attack on a hypermarket in Kharkiv in January 2025.[8] Solodchuk was promoted to the rank of colonel general on 21 February 2025.[9] On May 2025 he was appointed commander of the Central Military District, replacing Andrey Mordvichev.
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