Boris Totikov

Chief of Missile Forces and Artillery - Colonel

Unit: 35th Combined Arms Army, Eastern Military District

Cargo ID: #430

Full Name: Boris Gennadyevich Totikov

Russian Name: Тотиков Борис Геннадьевич

Date of Birth: July 28, 1972 (age: 50 years)

Place of Birth: Tbilisi, Georgia

Place of Death: Izium, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine (HIMARS Strike on the Command Post of the 35th CAA)

Education: Tbilisi Artillery School, Mikhailovsky Artillery Academy.

Awards: Under Investigation

The Cossacks of the village of Totskaya are always open to business contacts, joint social activities and friendly relations. And especially for brothers in arms - army military units called upon to defend the Fatherland. Proof of this is the meeting that took place on April 15 in the military unit, where the commander was Colonel Boris Gennadievich Totikov.

The commander of the unit and the ataman of the village, military foreman Yuri Aleksandrovich Shmelkov, met, discussed pressing issues of educating conscript Cossack youth and immediately moved on to specific business - to a plan for joint celebration of the upcoming May 9 - Victory Day. On this great day for our people, the Cossacks will take part in the ceremonial part for the personnel of 950 raps and will show a festive concert of the Cossack song and dance ensemble from the city of Buguruslan. (Published 04/18/2011)

Boris Totikov is a hereditary artilleryman. One of those about whom they say that he began his life in a gun “cradle.” His Ossetian grandfathers Batyrbek Totikov and Russian Alexander Moskalev were also artillery colonels. Both served at the Tbilisi Higher Artillery Command School: the first as deputy head of the school, the second as head of the department of rocket and artillery weapons. In 1989, their grandson also entered the excellent Tbilisi Artillery School, who grew up in a house in front of the school parade ground. True, the two apartments in Tbilisi that the mother inherited remain only formal family property: she is a citizen of Russia and cannot sell them for a decent price. Moreover, the Georgian government imposed a 25 percent tax on this sale.
Boris Totikov completed his cadet studies in St. Petersburg. But after graduation he was sent to his small homeland - to serve as an officer in the Group of Russian Forces in Transcaucasia. He started at the 137th Russian military base in Vaziani. He quickly rose from the commander of an anti-tank flamethrower platoon of a mountain rifle battalion to the chief of reconnaissance of a self-propelled artillery division. He served for four years in the same division as a battery commander, then as chief of staff - until the unit was disbanded in 2000. I tasted all the delights of being a Russian officer in modern Georgia. To the senior echelon through Adjara on landing ships of the Black Sea Fleet, Captain Totikov took out the regiment’s equipment to Gudauta and handed it over in Russia.
He was sent to the Orenburg region after graduating from the Mikhailovsky Artillery Academy. Served as chief of artillery of the 506th Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment. Then, for 4 years, he attended a wonderful command school in the 268th Guards Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment of the 27th Guards Motorized Rifle Division, where he successively held the positions of deputy and chief of staff of the talented regiment commander Dmitry Pikhutin. He helped him make the regiment the best in the district and the Ground Forces and confirm this title.
Boris Totikov’s comrade and ally in the artillery regiment, Colonel Vitaly Merkle, now deputy commander for educational work of the 21st motorized rifle brigade, noted to the Krasnaya Zvezda correspondent that he had largely adopted the work style of their commander, Colonel Pikhutin