He passed the main command positions from the commander of a platoon of cadets to the commander of a motorized rifle brigade.[2]
From 2010 to 2011 he served as commander of the 57th Separate Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade. From 2011 to 2013 he was the commander of the 7th Military Base. In 2013 he was promoted to Major General. In 2018 he served as Chief of Staff of the 20th Guards Combined Arms Army of the Western Military District.[3][4]
Order of Courage "Afyrkhaharazy aorden" (December 8, 2016, Abkhazia) - for the exemplary performance of peacekeeping tasks to ensure the security and inviolability of the state border of the Republic of Abkhazia[13]
^ ab"Russian brigade commander killed by his own forces". POLITICO. 25 March 2022. Retrieved 26 March 2022. Ukrainian presidential spokesman Oleksiy Arestovych earlier named the lieutenant general as Yakov Ryazantsev, and said he had been killed at the Chernobaevka aerodrome outside the southern city of Kherson — where Russian forces have repeatedly suffered losses in their campaign to break out from the Crimean peninsula to the northwest.