He received the highest military award – the golden star of the Hero of the Soviet Union after Operation Magistral had lifted the siege of the city of Khost in eastern Afghanistan.

During the Red Army withdrawal in February 1989, 30 to 40 military trucks crammed with Afghan historical treasures crossed into the Soviet Union, under orders from General Boris Gromov.

According to the project, the construction of the highway was supposed to lead to the deforestation of 1000 hectares of the Khimki Forest Park, which caused a strong public outcry and a protracted conflict.

[7] In August 2010, President Dmitry Medvedev suspended construction through the Khimki Forest, but Gromov continued to insist on building a road according to the previously approved project.

[8] On 4 May, Putin appointed Gromov governor of the Moscow Oblast for a third term with the wording "in connection with successes in the development of the region."

Gromov's candidacy for the post of governor was unanimously supported by deputies of the 4th Moscow Oblast Duma, with all 50 members voting for him.

"[14] On 1 September 2010, Gromov announced that he insisted on the construction of the Moscow–Saint Petersburg motorway through the Khimki Forest, declaring his intention to send letters to President Dmitry Medvedev and the Chairman of the Russian Government Vladimir Putin.

Thus, he intends to make amends for the failure of the United Russia party in the last State Duma elections: the party of power received less than 33% of the votes, which is almost 2 times less votes compared to 2007 [...] The current governor and his entourage," activists say, "count that Vladimir Putin's resounding success in the Moscow Oblast on 4 March will give hope for the reappointment of Boris Gromov.

"[16] In September 2011, Boris Gromov was included in the lists of the United Russia party, which were then nominated in the federal and Moscow Oblast Duma legislative elections in December 2011 on the single voting day.

[17] According to the results of the State Duma elections, United Russia won 33.5% of the votes in the Moscow Oblast and the corresponding regional group received 7 mandates.

As a result, in the Moscow Oblast, the multi-party system has been de facto abolished, the activities of opposition parties and social movements "inconvenient" for the governor are prohibited, and preparations for rigged "elections" are in full swing.

The situation in the Moscow Oblast is already so tense that you just need to hurry up with this personnel decision, otherwise "angry citizens" will appear here too.Pavel Salin, political scientist and leading expert of the Center for Russian Political Conjuncture, assessed the prospects of Boris Gromov: Judging by the fact that Gromov is of advanced age, but at the same time not yet an old man, he can hardly count on any position in the nomenklatura.

Most likely, he will go to the GR structure of some large company that has interests in the Moscow Oblast, and will work there as a "notebook," since over the course of 10 years he has placed quite a lot of his people in key positions in the region.

The new governor will not be able to quickly replace them, and Gromov will have 1-3 years to be able to directly call some official who owes him a career in the Moscow Oblast and ask him for something.

We have gone through a lot, including very difficult times, but we managed to make the Moscow Oblast a leader among Russian regions in many areas of socio-economic development.

And I am proud of it.In summarizing the 12-year reign of the Governor-General, Forbes noted: "the concentration of economic problems and corruption scandals in Gromov's domain seems desperately high even by Russian standards.

The head of the Central Election Commission, Vladimir Churov, personally presented Gromov with the certificate of a 6th State Duma deputy.

[29] This became possible after, in March 2013, the Constitutional Court of Russia determined that the governing body of a political party, if it has objective reasons for this, has the right to deviate from the order of candidates when transferring the vacant mandate of a State Duma deputy.

In December 2014, the Constitutional Court prohibited the re-transfer of the mandate to candidates who had previously abandoned it for the sake of work in executive bodies, as violating the principle of separation of powers.