Background
Ivan Maslennikov, born on a remote railroad station in present-day Saratov Oblast.
Ivan Maslennikov, born on a remote railroad station in present-day Saratov Oblast.
Ivan Maslennikov was educated locally. After the war II Maslennikov graduated from the Higher academic courses at the Academy of the General Staff.
Ivan Maslennikov twice attended a course of improvement of commanders, then graduated from the Military Academy named after MV Frunze, and Mid-Asian Communist University named after V.I. Lenin.
Ivan Maslennikov worked as a telegrapher on Chebyshev stations "Uralsk" and "Krasny Kut". During the February Revolution took part in disarming the gendarmes to the Urals-Iletsk railroad.
In March 1918, he departed to the front near Uralsk as the chief of communications of the Moscow-Saratov Infantry Regiment, and later - one of the brigades of the 1st Ural Division. In 1918 - 1921 years fought against Denikin and Wrangel, commanding a cavalry regiment and brigade fought in the Kuban and the Caucasus. In subsequent years, Ivan Maslennikov was directly involved in the liquidation Basmachis in Central Asia. Parts under his command destroyed units Utan-Beck (1929), Ibrahim Beck (1931), Ahmed Beck and Durdy-Murta (1933).
In 1932 - 1936 Ivan Maslennikov commanded the 11th Regiment Khorezm operating troops of the OGPU, in 1937 - 1939 - Belarusian border troops county, in 1939 - 1941 he was the Deputy People`s Commissar of Internal Affairs of the USSR on border and internal troops. From July 1941 until the end of the Great Patriotic War, he commanded the 29th, 39th and 42th armies of the West, Kalinin and Leningrad fronts, the Northern Group of the Transcaucasian Front, the North Caucasus and 3rd Baltic fronts. Ivan Maslennikov took part in defensive battles of the first period of the war in the Great Luki, Rzhev, Kalinin, in the counter-offensive of the Soviet troops near Moscow, the liberation of the Caucasus, Leningrad and Pskov regions, and Latvia. He took part in the defeat of the Japanese Kwantung Army in the Far East. He was wounded 13 times, including four in the Great Patriotic War.
As Deputy Chief of the Soviet troops in the Far East Ivan Maslennikov, long before the outbreak of war with Japan, together with the Marshal of the Soviet Union A.M. Vasilevsky took a direct plot to develop a plan of operations to defeat imperial Japan. With extensive military experience, deep knowledge of operational art and outstanding organizational skills, General Maslennikov made a number of proposals in the plan for the defeat of the Kwantung Army. During the fighting, he was on the decisive sectors, providing practical assistance to the commanders of fronts and armies. Hero of the Soviet Union and the Order of Lenin and medal "Gold Star" Ivan Ivanovich Maslennikov awarded September 8, 1945 for personal courage and leadership fronts during the defeat of the Japanese Kwantung Army.
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