Fanil Sarvarov

Fanil Fanisovich Sarvarov was a Russian military officer, Lieutenant General. He was the Chief of the Operational Training Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Federation.

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Born March 11, 1969, in Gremyachinsk, Perm Region.

Education

Graduated from the Kazan Higher Tank Command School in 1990.

Graduated from the Marshal of the Soviet Union R. Ya. Malinovsky Military Academy of Armored Forces in 1999.

Graduated from the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in 2008.

Military Service

Between 1992 and 2003, he participated in the Ossetian-Ingush conflict and the Chechen War for six years.

From 2015 to 2016, he participated in military operations in Syria.

He served as the Chief of the Operational Training Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Federation.

Death

On December 22, 2025, at 6:55 AM, the general's Kia Sorento was blown up in the parking lot of Garage Cooperative No. 66 near Building 12, Block 5, in the Orekhovo-Borisovo Yuzhnoye district on Yasenevaya Street.

According to the Russian Investigative Committee, Sarvarov died from multiple shrapnel wounds to his legs and closed facial fractures.

The investigation's primary theory is an act by Ukrainian special services. A criminal case has been opened for terrorism.

Awards
 

• Order of Courage (1995)
• Suvorov Medal (2000)
• Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" II degree (2003)
• Order "For Military Merit" (2014)
• Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" I degree (2014)
• Honorary title "Honored Military Specialist of the Russian Federation" (2016)

Kiilled Russian generals during Russias invasion in Ukraine

1. Andrey Sukhovetsky, Major General, March 1, 2022. Deputy Commander of the 41st Combined Arms Army. Killed by a sniper in the Chernihiv Oblast on February 28, 2022 (death confirmed by the Russian side).
2. Andrey Kolesnikov, Major General, March 11, 2022. Commander of the 29th Combined Arms Army. As of 2023, he was alive and served as Deputy Commander of the Russian group in Syria.
3. Oleg Mityaev, Major General, March 15, 2022. Commander of the 150th Motorized Rifle Division. Presumably killed in the battle for Mariupol. The Azov Battalion claimed responsibility for Mityaev's death (the death was indirectly confirmed by Russian pro-war Telegram channels).
4. Vladimir Frolov, Major General, April 10, 2022. Deputy Commander of the 8th Combined Arms Army. Killed by a sniper on March 10, 2022, in Mariupol (death confirmed by the Russian side).
5. Andrey Simonov, Major General, April 30, 2022. Chief of Electronic Warfare Troops of the Russian Armed Forces of the Western Military District. Presumably killed by an artillery strike on the command post of the 2nd Combined Arms Army near Izyum, Kharkiv Oblast.
6. Kanamat Botashev, Major General (retired), May 22, 2022. Participated in combat as part of the Wagner PMC. Botashev's Su-25 was shot down by the Ukrainian Armed Forces (death confirmed by the Russian side).
7. Roman Kutuzov, Lieutenant General, June 5, 2022 Chief of Staff - First Deputy Commander of the 8th Combined Arms Army. Presumably, he commanded units of the DPR. He was killed in the battle for Popasnaya near the village of Nikolaevka in the Luhansk region (death confirmed by the Russian side).
8. Dmitry Ulyanov, Major General (retired), February 6, 2023 Commander of a regiment formed from mobilized soldiers in Tatarstan.
9. Sergey Goryachev, Major General, June 12, 2023 Chief of Staff of the 35th Combined Arms Army. He was killed in an airstrike on the 35th Combined Arms Army headquarters in Primorsk during the Ukrainian counteroffensive in June 2023 (death confirmed by the Russian side).
10. Oleg Tsokov, Lieutenant General, July 11, 2023 Deputy Commander of the Southern Military District. Killed in an attack on the 58th Army's reserve command post in Berdyansk during the Ukrainian counteroffensive in July 2023 (death confirmed by the Russian side).
11. Volodymyr Zavadsky, Major General, November 28, 2023. Deputy Commander of the 14th Army Corps. He was blown up by a mine or came under fire near the village of Krynki in the Kherson region (death confirmed by the Russian side).
12. Igor Trifonov, Major General of Police (stripped of rank by court verdict), December 12, 2023. Former head of the Yekaterinburg Department of Internal Affairs, convicted of bribery. Killed in action (death confirmed by the Russian side).
13. Andrey Golovatsky, Major General (retired), June 30, 2024. Former First Deputy Chief of Staff of the North Caucasus Regional Command of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Killed in action (death confirmed by the Russian side)
14. Ildar Saidov, Major General of the Customs Service, September 2024. He was assigned to the "Storm Z" unit. Killed in action
15. Pavel Klimenko, Major General, November 6, 2024. Commander of the 5th Guards Brigade (death confirmed by the Russian side)
16. Igor Kirillov, Lieutenant General, December 17, 2024. Chief of the Radiation, Chemical, and Biological Defense Troops of the Russian Armed Forces, was killed as a result of the detonation of an explosive device on Ryazansky Prospekt in Moscow. Kirillov's assistant driver, who had arrived to pick him up from work, was killed at the scene of the incident (death confirmed by the Russian side).
17. Konstantin Smeshko, Major General, December 26, 2024. Killed on Russian territory, presumably by an airstrike or HIMARS strike (death confirmed by the Russian side, cause of death not specified).
18. Yaroslav Moskalik, Lieutenant General, April 25, 2025. Deputy Chief of Staff.
19. Mikhail Gudkov, Guard Major General, July 2, 2025, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy. According to Ukrainian media, he was killed along with other officers in a Ukrainian Armed Forces missile strike on a command post on July 2, 2025. Russian sources report that he died during combat operations in a border area of ​​the Kursk region.
20. Fanil Sarvarov, Lieutenant General, December 22, 2025, Chief of the Operational Training Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Federation.