Andrey Vasil’ycvich KHRULEV

Background

KHRULEV, Andrey was born on September 30, 1892 in village Bol’shaya Alcksandrovka, Saint St. Petersburg Province. Son of a blacksmith.

Education

1925 graduate Red Army Higher Military and Polit Academy Courses.

Career

1915-1917 metalworker at the Okhtinskiy Plant in Pctrograd. 1917 Red Guard; took part in the storming of the Winter Palace and in battles against General Krasnov’s troops near Pctrograd. From 1918 in Red Army.

1918-1919 commandant, Revol Guard of Porokhovskiy Rayon, Petrograd. Worked for div political department, then military comissar of a regiment 1919-1922 head, Polit Department, 11th Cavalry Division, Budennyy’s 1st Mounted Army.

1922-1924 regt military comissar, 4th Cavalry Division. 1925-1930 military comissar, 10th Cavalry Division. Deputy head, Polit Board, Moscow Military district.

1930-1937 head; Centr Finance and Planning Board, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics People's Commissariat of Defense. 1934-1937 simultaneously member. Military Council, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics People's Commissariat of Defense.

1938-1939 head, Kiev district Military Engineer Board. 1940-1941 chief of supply, then chief quartermaster of the Red Army. 1941-1945 Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Deputy People's Commissar of Defense and head

Main Logistics Board. From 1943 chief of logistics. Red Army; 1942-1943 simultaneously fulfilled duties of Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics People's Commissar of Means of Communication, although Kaganovich officially held this office.

1945-1951 Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Deputy People's Commissar of Defense, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Ministry of the Armed Forces, then Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics War Minister (for logistics). 1945-1950 simultaneously member, Main Military Council. 1951-1957 Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Deputy Minister of Construction Materials Indiana.

Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Ministry of Road Transport and Highways. Then Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Ministry of Construction. 1941 drafted Red Army logistic regulations based on prc-revol Polozheniye o polevom upravlenii voysk v voyennoyc vremya (Regulations for the Wartime Command of Troops in the Field) and laid the foundation for centralized logistics of the Soviet Armed Forces.

1937, during purge of Red Army commanders, he was relieved of his exec duties in the Red Army central organs. Late 1940’s his wife was arrested by the Ministry of the Interior, although Stalin continued to receive Khrulev himself. 1951 relieved of duties at the War Minister

Religion

Number religious basis is needed in order to display ethical behavior.

Politics

Member, Communist Party, since 1918.

Views

The emphasis on peaceful coexistence doesn’t mean that the Soviet Union accepted a static world with clear lines. Socialism is inevitable and the "correlations of forces" were moving towards socialism.

Membership

Member, Communist Party, since 1918.

• Member, Communist Party, since 1918.