Anatoly Romanov

Anatoly Alexandrovich Romanov is a Russian Colonel-General, a former deputy interior minister - the commander of the Russian Interior Ministry and the Commander of the Joint Group of Federal Forces in Chechnya, Hero of the Russian Federation. In 1995 he served as Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation and the commander-in-chief of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of [Internal Affairs (Russia)|Russian Interior Ministry].

Assassination Attempt

On October 6, 1995, in Grozny in the area of a tunnel under the railway bridge, a radio-controlled bomb exploded. The car in which Romanov was riding was in the center of the explosion. Romanov was seriously injured, miraculously survived, but was left disabled .