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Andrey Nikolayevich Mordvichev (Russian: Андрей Николаевич Мордвичёв; born 14 January 1976) is a Russian colonel general who is the commander of the Central Military District and the Center Grouping of Forces in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. He was awarded the title Hero of the Russian Federation in 2024.




Early life and prewar service


Andrey Nikolayevich Mordvichev was born on 14 January 1976 in Pavlodar in Kazakh SSR (present day Kazakhstan). He graduated from the Novosibirsk Higher Military Command School in 1997 and the Combined Arms Academy in 2006. In 2010 he was deputy commander of the 5th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade with the rank of lieutenant colonel. Mordvichev commanded the 4th Separate Guards Tank Brigade from 2011 and the 28th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade in 2014. He was promoted to major general on 12 June 2013. After graduating from the Military Academy of the General Staff in 2016, Mordvichev was appointed deputy commander of the 68th Army Corps. In 2017 he was appointed chief of staff and first deputy commander of the 41st Combined Arms Army. In 2019 he was appointed chief of staff of the 8th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District. Mordvichev was appointed army commander in 2021.




Russo-Ukrainian War


He commanded the army during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, where Ukrainian sources falsely claimed he was killed in an 18 March airstrike on an airfield in Chornobaivka. This would have made him Russia's sixth general to be killed in the invasion and the most highly ranked casualty of the war up to that point. However, Mordvichev's claimed death was not confirmed by Russian sources, and on 28 March, Russian television broadcast images that showed Ramzan Kadyrov meeting Mordvichev in Mariupol.
Later in 2022, Mordvichev was appointed deputy commander of the Southern Military District. Since 17 February 2023, he has commanded Russia's Central Military District, having replaced the promoted Colonel-General Aleksandr Lapin due to the previous territorial losses during the 2022 Kharkiv counteroffensive. As of April 2023 he is commander of the Center Grouping of Forces in Ukraine.
On September 7, Mordvichev was promoted to colonel general by a presidential decree. According to an interview he gave at the end of July 2023 with the state-run Russia-1 television channel, Mordvichev views the invasion of Ukraine as a mere "stepping stone" to further conflict with Eastern Europe.
In February 2024, Mordvichev was congratulated by president Vladimir Putin for capturing Avdiivka as the commander-in-charge.




Decorations


Mordvichev has received the following decorations:

Hero of the Russian Federation
Order of Alexander Nevsky
Order of Zhukov
Order of Courage
Order of Military Merit
Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class
Medal of Suvorov




References

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• Andrey Mordvichev
• 8th Guards Combined Arms Army (Russia)
• Central Military District
• List of Russian generals killed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
• 2022 Chornobaivka attacks
• Battle of Avdiivka (2023–2024)
• Pokrovsk offensive order of battle
• Russian invasion of Ukraine order of battle
• 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive order of battle
• Russian Ground Forces