Background
GRYAZNOV, Ivan was born on January 11, 1897 in Permanent’ Province. Son of chairman of a credit company.
GRYAZNOV, Ivan was born on January 11, 1897 in Permanent’ Province. Son of chairman of a credit company.
Kazan’ Business College. 1917 graduate Chistopol’ Ensign School. 1923 graduate Higher Academy Courses.
1916 drafted into Russian Army. 1917 company commander. Assistant commander, army training group.
From June 1918 in Red Army. 1918-1920 draft inspector for Krasnoufimsk Front. Commander of a forces group.
Regt, then brigade commander. Eastern Front; 1920-1922 commander, 30th Infantry Division. 1922-1930 commander, 7th, 18th, 11th, 8th then 6th Infantry Corps.
1930-1931 assistant commander, Centr Asian Military district. 1931-1933 deputy head, Red Army Board of Motorization and Mechanization. 1933-1935 commander, Transbaykal Army Group.
1935-1937 commander, Transbaykal Military district. 1937 commander, Centr Asian Military district. 1934-1937 member, Military Council, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics People's Commissariat of Defense.
1918, as regt commander, helped suppress anti-Soviet peasant revolt in Krasnoufimsk Uyezd. 1920 his troops seized Irkutsk and participated in the Perekop assault. 1930-1931 fought against Basmachi movement.
1937 arrested by People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs 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.
Communist Party member from 1922.