Votintsev was a promoted and repeatedly decorated artillery officer throughout
World War II. Toward 1953 he was lending his experience to North Korean and Chinese forces during the
Korean War. He went on to serve in antiaircraft and space defense, becoming an artillery Major General in 1958 and transferring to Turkmenistan, working with southern border defense to suppress American
U-2 surveillance flights. He became a lieutenant general in 1963 and a Turkmen delegate to the 22nd and 23rd
CPSU Party Congresses. He headed interdepartmental technical commissions and was made a
Hero of Soviet Labor by the
Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, as well as given an
Order of Lenin and Hammer and Sickle gold medal at the hand of
Dimitri Ustinov. After retirement he was the veteran's organization chair for the capital's Oktyabrskiy region and was chosen as a delegate to the 1990 28th Congress of the CPSU. He holds two Orders of Lenin, four Orders of the Red Banner, an Order of Alexander Nevsky, and two first-degree Orders of the Patriotic War (World War II), Red Star Orders, and Emblem of Honor (Znak Pochyota) medals. Votintsev resided in Moscow. == External links ==