ROSTOV-ON-DON, September 14, Julia Nasulina. Former commander of the united group of forces in the North Caucasus, Hero of Russia Viktor Kazantsev, who at the turn of the century fought against terrorism in Dagestan and Chechnya, died on Tuesday, a representative of the Southern Military District told RIA Novosti. «According to the relatives of Viktor Germanovich Kazantsev, he died in the hospital today in the morning after a long illness, «- said the interlocutor of the agency. As RIA Novosti specified in the Club of the commanders, Kazantsev died around seven in the morning in Krasnodar. Kazantsev was the commander of the united group of forces in the North Caucasus. In 2000-2004, he was the first plenipotentiary representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Southern Federal District.
