Background
BIRYUZOV, Sergey was born in 1904 in Skopin, Ryazan’ Province.
BIRYUZOV, Sergey was born in 1904 in Skopin, Ryazan’ Province.
Early 1930's graduated Frunze Military Academy. 1938 graduated Voroshilov Higher Military Academy.
Until 1922 railroad worker. From 1922 in Red Army. Fought anti- Communist partisans in Northern Caucasus.
1926-1937 platoon leader, company and battalion commander in Moscow Proletarian Division. From 1937 chief of Operations Department and deputy chief of staff, Khar’kov Military district. From 1939 commander, 132nd Division in same military distr.
1941-1942 commander, same div, now in 13th Army. 1942 chief of staff, 48th Army. December 1942-April 1943 chief of staff, 2nd Guards Army under Marshal Malinovskiy.
1943-1944 chief of staff, Southern, 3rd and 4th Ukraine Fronts. From October 1944 commander, 37th Army of 3rd Ukraine Front in Bulgaria. 1946-1947 deputy commander in chief, Soviet Ground Forces.
1947-1953 commanded military distr in Far East. 1953-1954 commander in chief, Centr Army- Group (Austria, Hungary and Rumania). 1954-1955 first deputy commander in chief, and 1955-1962 commander in chief, Anti-Aircraft Defense System.
1962-1963 commander in chief, Strategic Missile Forces. 1955-1963 simultaneously USSR Deputy Min of Defense. During the first months of World War 2 three times managed to save his 132nd Division from encirclement.
As chief of staff, 2nd Guards Army on 3rd and 4th Ukraine Fronts, fought at Stalingrad and helped to plan the Miussy, Tavrida, Crimean and Yassy-Kishincv operations. 1944-1945 acting chairman, Allied Control Commission in Bulgaria. 1956-1961 candidate member, Central Committee, Communist Party of the Soviet Union: deleg at 20th, 21st and 22nd Communist Party of the Soviet Union Congresses.
Deputy, USSR Supreme Soviet of 1946, 1954, 1958 and 1962 convocations. Deputy, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Supreme Soviet of 1951 convocation. Military publicist; author of a series of articles on missiles.
Member, Communist Party, since 1926.
Member, Central Committee, Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1961. Communist Party member from 1926.