Early Years
Kvachkov was born to a family of a military officer in the urban-type settlement of Kraskino in Khasansky district, Primorsky Krai, Russian SFSR. He spent his childhood as military brat in the town of Ussuriysk, where his father was transferred.
He graduated a Suvorov Military School in 1966 and the Higher Military School in Kiev in 1970. Kvachkov started his military service as a commander of a Spetsnaz platoon stationed in Pskov. Later he served in the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany and Transbaikal Military District.
In 1978 Kvachkov enrolled at the Frunze Military Academy and honourably graduated it in 1981. He studied with the same group as Pavel Popovskikh, a military officer later charged and acquitted by court with the contract killing of journalist Dmitry Kholodov.
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