“Viktor Germanovich enjoyed well-deserved respect.
Over the years of service to the Fatherland, he has repeatedly demonstrated endurance, firmness of spirit, strength of character, readiness to take responsibility during the most difficult military operations, including in the North Caucasus, ”says the telegram of the Krasnodar Territory Governor Veniamin Kondratyev.
Kazantsev was born on February 22, 1946 in Belarus, he graduated from the Sverdlovsk Suvorov School, the Leningrad Higher Command School, the Military Academy named after M.V.
Frunze and the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces.
He held leading positions in Transcaucasia, Central Asia, Czechoslovakia and Transbaikalia.