Brigade Commander - Colonel
Unit: 4th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade, 2nd Army Corps, LPR Militia
Previously: In the summer of 2022, he was appointed chief of staff of the 57th separate guards motorized rifle brigade of the 5th combined arms
army of the Eastern Military District, In September 2022, partial mobilization was announced in the country. Since the beginning of October 2022, Colonel V.V. Makarov has been acting military commissar of the Khabarovsk Territory. A month later he was sent to the same position in the Magadan region, where he had to restore the disorganized work of the regional military registration and enlistment office. Having normalized the situation as soon as possible, in December 2022 he decided to return to the Northeast Military District zone. Sent to the front as commander of the 4th separate motorized rifle brigade of the 2nd Guards Army Corps of the 8th Guards Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District. The brigade successfully operated in battles in the Kreminna direction, after which it was transferred to the Bakhmut area.
"The commander of the 4th Motorized Rifle Brigade, Vyacheslav Makarov, while on the front line, personally led the battle. Two enemy attacks were repelled. The brigade's servicemen destroyed three tanks, four infantry fighting vehicles and two armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In the course of repelling the third attack, the brigade commander was seriously wounded and died during the evacuation from the battlefield," - Russian MoD
Cargo ID: #766
Call Sign: "Barnaul" (Барнаул)
English Name: Vyacheslav Vladimirovich Makarov
Russian Name: Макаров Вячеслав Владимирович
Date of Birth: February 19, 1979 (age: 44 years)
Place of Birth: Baley, Chita Region, Russia
Place of Death: Near Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine
Education: "Blagoveshchensk Higher Tank Command School, Graduated from the Frunze Military Academy in Moscow"
Awards: Hero of Russia (ph.) Order of Courage, medal "Zhukov", others under investigation
Previously Deployed: Syria
The brave commander of the 4th brigade, Colonel Vyacheslav Makarov, with the call sign “Barnaul”, who often took us to the front with him, died, where brigade commanders are usually not found. "Barnaul" always personally controlled the battle, around the clock was in the trenches at the forefront, along with the privates. He told me where to put the machine gun, where the trenches needed to be widened. He led attack aircraft, sappers, tankers, explaining the task not on the map at headquarters, but on the ground - observing the situation with his own eyes. And this brought tactical success - several large enemy oporniks were taken in the Kremensky forest.
At the forefront, shelling is the norm. Several times shells flew in 10 meters from us, but somehow it was always calm with “Barnaul” - both for us and for the fighters. He always joked and listened to Soviet songs in headphones during the battle. In recent days, he didn’t want to take us in the new direction near Artyomovsk [Bakhmut], he said that it was too hot for now, the enemy was advancing in large forces, but they would figure it out there too. And the 4th brigade on the day of the death of its brigade commander gave a powerful rebuff.
Son:
English Name: Viktor Makarov
Russian Name: Макаров Виктор
Social Media: VK.com
He was buried on May 21, 2023 in the city of Baley, Trans-Baikal Territory.
By decree of the President of the Russian Federation ("closed") of June 21, 2023, Colonel Vyacheslav Vladimirovich Makarov was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation (posthumously) for courage and heroism shown in the Performance of military duty.
The Gold Star medal was handed over to the Hero's family on September 3, 2023 in the city of Khabarovsk, in the district House of Officers, by the acting commander of the Eastern Military District, Major General S.P. Lagutkin.
