What is Anatoly Kornukov?
[[File:Anatoly Kornukov-2 (cropped).jpg|thumb|Kornukov (2000).]] '''Anatoly Mikhaïlovich Kornukov''' ({{Lang-ru|Анатолий Михайлович Корнуков}}; 10 January 1942 &ndash; 1 July 2014) was a [[Russia]]n [[Armed Forces of the Russian Federation|army]] [[General officer|general]] from 1959 until 2002. He was a fighter pilot in the [[Soviet Air Defence Forces]]. He was [[commander-in-chief]] of the [[Russian Air Force]] from 1998 to 2002. He got internationally known when it was found out that he ordered [[Korean Air Lines]] [[Korean Air Lines Flight 007|Flight 007]] to be shot down on 1 September 1983. Kornukov was born in Kadievka, [[Soviet Union]] (now [[Stakhanov, Ukraine|Stakhanov]], [[Ukraine]]). Kornukov died on 1 July 2014 in [[Moscow]], aged 72.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ria.ru/defense_safety/20140701/1014234066.html|title=Скончался бывший главнокомандующий ВВС РФ Анатолий Корнуков|publisher=[[RIA Novosti]]|language=ru|date=1 July 2014|access-date=1 July 2014}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Kornukov, Anatoly}} [[Category:1942 births]] [[Category:2014 deaths]] [[Category:Disease-related deaths in Russia]] [[Category:Russian generals]] [[Category:Soviet generals]] {{Bio-stub}}