Valery Petrovich Baranov (Russian: Валерий Петрович Баранов; born 16 November 1948) is a retired colonel general of the Internal Troops of Russia.
[1] Baranov commanded the 2nd Guards Tank Division in Mongolia and at Mirnaya, Zabaykalsky Krai, in the Siberian Military District in 1989-90.
He served as the deputy commander-in-chief of the forces of the Moscow Military District for combat training and as the deputy commander-in-chief of forces of the North Caucasus Military District from July 2000 to October 2001.
On 9 May 2004 he lost a leg during the assassination of Akhmad Kadyrov in Grozny, Chechen Republic, Russian Federation.
Baranov helped write the book История внутренних войск (English: History of the Internal Troops).