Boris Vasilyevich Tarasov (Russian: Борис Васильевич Тарасов; 28 February 1932 – 16 June 2021) was an officer of the Soviet military who held a number of posts, rising to deputy chief of the Communication Troops for military-political work, reaching the rank of lieutenant general.

Though he failed to be elected to the State Duma, he remained active in veterans' interests, and wrote his memoirs.

[1] By the early 1940s he was living in Leningrad, and spent between 1941 and 1942 with his younger brothers and pregnant mother in the city during its siege during the Second World War.

[3] He graduated from the Alma-Ata Airborne School in 1954 and began a long series of postings that took him all across the Soviet Union, starting as a platoon commander.

[4] In February 1995 he was elected deputy chairman of the Permanent Presidium of the Central Council of the All-Russian Assembly of Officers, and in August that year stood in the elections for the State Duma as a representative of the electoral bloc "Union of Patriots", but they failed to pass the 5% vote total to achieve representation.

[2] In 2013 he became a leading inspector of the Combined Arms Academy, and regularly met with cadets and military personnel.