Albert Makashov

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Albert Makashov (Макашов, Альберт Михайлович) (born 1938) is Russian officer and a communist politician.

He is born in Voronezh. He graduated from the Tashkent military School, finished the Frunze Military Academy (with the gold medal), and the General Staff Academy (with the gold medal) during the 1960's. He became Major-General of the Red Army in 1979, and was active in Caucasus.

In 1989, Albert Makashov was elected to the Supreme Soviet. He ran for presidential election in 1991 as an "Independent nationalist", obtaining 3.74%. He then supported Soviet coup d'état attempt the same year. During 4 Oct 1993 he was the Commandant of Russian Parliament's Defence. After imprisonment and amnesty he was elected a deputy to the State Duma of Russian Federation as a member of the communist parliamentary group (since 1995). Some Jewish associations accused Makashov of being anti-Semitic.