High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Vyacheslav Nikolaevich Borisov (born January 12, 1955) is a high-ranking Russian general who commanded troops in the 2008 South Ossetian War.Borisov was born in Ruza, near Moscow, during the rule of the Soviet Union. He joined the Soviet Military in 1976, when he graduated from the Ryazan Higher Airborne College and was commissioned into the airborne forces. A good officer, he rose through the ranks and in 1990 he graduated from the eliteFrunze Military Academy.