Background
FED’KO, Ivan was born on June 24, 1897 in village Khmelov, Poltava Province. Son of a Zaporozhian Cossack.
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Ivan Fyodorovich FED’KO
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1917 graduate 4th Kiev Ensign School. 1922 graduate Red Army Military Academy.
Career
1913-1916 joiner; 1916 drafted into Russian Army. 1916-1917 private, machine-gunner, platoon commander, elected balallion commander. 1917-1918 in the Red Guard.
From 1918 in Red Army. 1918-1920 commanded detachment, regt, then column. Commander, Caucasian Armed Forces.
Commander, 1 1th Army. Member, Crimean Republic Revol Military Council and deputy commander, Crimean Red Army. Commander, 58th Crimean Division, then commander, 46th Infantry Division.
Commander, shock army group. 1922-1927 commander, 18th Yaroslavl’ Infantry Division. Commander, 13th, then 2nd Infantry- Corps.
1927-1928 chief of staff, North Caucasian Military district. 1928 assistant commander, Leningrad Military district. 1931-1932 commander. Red Banner Caucasian Army.
1932-1934 commander, Volga Military district. 1934-1937 commander. Maritime Forces Group and assistant commander, Personnel Department, Far Eastern Army. From 1934 simultaneously member, Military Council, USSR People’s Commissariat of Defense.
1937-1938 commander, Kiev Military district. 1938 USSR Deputy People’s Commissar of Defense and member, Supreme Military Council. 1938 arrested by People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs.
Participated in the October 1917 Revol in Feodosiya. 1921, being a student at the Military Academy and commander of a student brigade, helped crush Kronstadt Mutiny. Later, commanding a military sector, helped crush Antonov Revolt in Tambov Province.
1924-1925 fought against Basmachi. 1923 deleg, 12th All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Congress. Candidate member, Central Committee, Communist Party Uzbek.
Member, Center Executive Committee, Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. Member, USSR Center Executive Committee. 1937-1938 member, Central Committee, Communist Party Ukraine.
Deputy and Presidium member, LISSR Supreme Soviet of 1937 convocation.
Religion
Religion divides people, and is a cause of numerous wars and conflicts throughout the human history.
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
Communist Party member from 1917.
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Nationality
Russian