Background
Ivan Aleksandrovich Kuzovkov was born on May, 1903 in Borisoglebsk Region, Russian Federation.
Ivan Aleksandrovich Kuzovkov was born on May, 1903 in Borisoglebsk Region, Russian Federation.
Ivan Aleksandrovich finished Military School named after All-Russian Central Executive Committee in 1927. After that Ivan completed postgraduate courses of commanding officers’ development at the High Border Guards’ School at People’s Commissariat of Domestic Affairs in 1935 and finished The Frunze Military Academy in 1939.
Ivan Aleksandrovich in the Great Patriotic War, acted as a Commander of the 69th Infantry Division (65th Army, Central Front), stood out while forcing the Dnieper river and in battles for the bridgehead in Loevsk region, Gomel district (contemporary Belarus) on October 15-16, 1943.
After World War Two Ivan was appointed Deputy Head of Staff at USSR Ministry of Defense, retired in 1969 and spent the rest of his life in Moscow. Ivan Kuzovkov was the author of the memoir essay "May the popular feat glow long", Communism Builder, Borisoglebsk. May 8, 1985.