Background
DUBOVOY, Ivan was born on September 12, 1896 in village Chmyrivtsy, Kiev Province. Son of a peasant.
DUBOVOY, Ivan was born on September 12, 1896 in village Chmyrivtsy, Kiev Province. Son of a peasant.
March 1917 graduate Ensigns’ School, Irkutsk. 1926 graduate advanced officers training courses at Frunze Military Academy.
1916 drafted into Russian Army. 1917-1918 junior officer, Krasnoyarsk training depot. 1918-1919 mustered Bakhmut (now Artcmovsk) Red Guard detachment.
Military comissar, Novo-Makeyev rayon. Commandant, Centr Staff, Donbass Red Guard. 1919 chief of staff, Kiev Forces Group.
Chief of staff, 10th Army. Commander, 1st Ukraine Army. From April 1919 commander, 3rd Border Division (renamed 44th Infantry Division).
August 1919 assistant chief, 44th (Shchors) Division. 1919-1924 again chief, 44th Division. 1924-1929 commander, 14th Infantry Corps.
1929-1935 assistant, then deputy commander, Ukraine Military district. From 1934 simultaneously member, Military Council, People's Commissariat of Defense. 1935-1937 commander, Khar’kov Military district.
In 1919 his 44th Infantry Division won renown in Ukraine in liberation of Zhitomir, Chernigov and Kiev. 1930, together with Yakir, managed to quash trial of group of former officers of Russian Army who had served on staff of Ukraine Milit district, were arrested by Joint State Political Administration and unwarrantcdly accused of organizing an anti-Soviet plot. 1933, during Ukraine famine, together with Yakir and other Party functionaries sent Stalin a letter requesting end to grain procurement in Ukraine and seeking authorization to use military supplies to aid regions worst hit by famine.
21 August 1937 arrested by People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs organs.
Communist Party member from 1917.