Background
BELOV, Ivan was born on June 15, 1893 in village Kalinnikovo, now Vologda Oblast. Son of a poor peasant.
BELOV, Ivan was born on June 15, 1893 in village Kalinnikovo, now Vologda Oblast. Son of a poor peasant.
Graduate as external student from teachers’ seminary: 1923 graduate Advanced Officer Training Courses, General Staff Academy.
Until 1913 sawmill worker, teacher. 1913 drafted into Russian Army. 1913-1916 private, petty officer, 13th Siberian Infantry Regt.
Fought in World War 1. 1916-1917 in a penal battalion. 1917-1918 elected commander, 1st Siberian Reserve Infantry Regt.
1918-1919 commandant, Tashkent Garrison and Tashkent Fortress. 1919 commander in chief, Armed Forces of Soviet Turkestani Republic. 1919-1921 commander, 3rd Turkestani Infantry Division in Semirech’ye.
Commander, forces group, Turkestani Front. 1921-1922 commander, 2nd Don, 22nd Krasnodar and 9th Don Infantry Division. 1923-1925 commander, 15th, 9th and 2nd Infantry Corps.
Assistant commander, North Caucasian Military district. 1925-1927 assistant commander, Moscow Military district. 1927-1931 commander, North Caucasian Military district.
1931-1935 commander, Leningrad Military district. 1935-1937 commander, Moscow Military district. 1937-1938 commander, Belorussian Military district.
1934-1938 simultaneously member, Military Council, USSR People’s Commissariat of Defense. 1917-1921 helped to establish and consolidate Soviet rule in Turkestan against the forces of the Emir of Bukhara. 1921-1922 helped suppress anti-Soviet revolts in Caucasus.
1917-1919 member, Executive Committee, Tashkent City Soviet. 1921 member, Turkestani Centr Executive Committee. Member, USSR Centr Executive Committee.
Dclcg at 1934 All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Congress. Deputy, USSR Supreme Soviet of 1937 convocation. June 1937 member, Special Judicial Office, USSR Supreme Court, which sentenced Marshal Tukhachevskiy and other commanders to death.
January 1938 summoned to Moscow and arrested by State Security organs.
Religion is bad because it divides people, and is a cause of conflict and war.
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.
1917-1919 member, Leftist Socialist-Revol Party. Communist Party member from 1919.