Division Chief of Operations; Army Deputy Chief of Staff - Colonel

Unit: 4th Guards Tank Division, 1st Guards Tank Army, Western Military District

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The memorial poster included below states that he was killed in the Kherson area. However, there is no reason for an officer of the 4th GTD or 1st GTA to have been anywhere near Kherson at the time. His death happened during the Kharkiv counteroffensive where the 4GTD/1GTA were heavily involved. Most likely he was killed in the command post strikes in Izyum or possibly Balaklia.
Previously: He served in the 467th district training center in Kovrov , and went through all the ranks successively from platoon commander to battalion commander. Then, on rotation, he was sent for further service in Transbaikalia . He was sent to Latin America , where he taught Venezuelan partners the design and operation of the BMP-3 . Graduated with honors from linguistic courses at the Military University of the Ministry of Defense(speaks English and Spanish) and UN observer courses at the Military Training and Scientific Center of the Ground Forces, after which he was appointed commandant of a high-security area in Transnistria

Cargo ID: #676

English Name: Denis Vladimirovich Gutarov

Russian Name: Гутаров Денис Владимирович

Date of Birth: October 16, 1980 (age: 41 years)

Place of Birth: Yaroslavl, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia

Education: Ryazan Guards Higher Airborne Command School then Transferred to Far Eastern Higher Combined Arms Command School (graduated 2002), Military University of the Ministry of Defense (languages),Combined Arms Military Academy. M. V. Frunze (graduated 2018)

Awarded: Hero of Russia (ph.), medal “Participant of the peacekeeping operation in Transnistria” , medal “25 years of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic” (2015), Order of Courage, others under investigation

"He died on October 1, 2022, in the Kherson direction. During the movement of the division's command post, Colonel D.V. Gutarov was mortally wounded by an enemy airstrike."
Far Eastern Higher Combined Arms Command School emblem
A memorial plaque to Hero of Russia Denis Gutarov was opened in Yaroslavl.
Today, a solemn ceremony was held to open the memorial plaque of the Guard to Colonel Denis Gutarov, who died on October 1, 2022 while performing his military duty during a special military operation.
The plaque appeared on the building of secondary school No. 11 in the Dzerzhinsky district, where Denis Gutarov studied from 1987 to 1997.

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