Background
PETROV, Ivan was born on November 30, 1896 in Trubchevsk. Son of an artisan, Education: studied at theological seminar)'.
General military commander officer
PETROV, Ivan was born on November 30, 1896 in Trubchevsk. Son of an artisan, Education: studied at theological seminar)'.
Studied at theological seminar)'. 1917 graduate ensigns’ school. 1926 and 1931 graduate advanced officer training courses.
Fought in World War 1. 1918 volunteered for Red Army. Fought in Civil War; from 1920 served in Centr Asia as brigade comissar, 11th Cavalry Division, 1922-1926 commander, 1st Turkm Infantry Division.
1931 commander, separate Uzbek brigade. Fought against Basmachi. Until 1937 commandant, Tashkent Infantry College.
Removed from this post for “lack of vigilance”. 1941 formed mechanized corps in Centr Asian Military district. With start of Soviet-Gcrman hostilities commanded 2nd Cavalry Division, then 25th Chapayev Infantry Division.
Fought in defense of Odessa. From 5 October 1941 commanded Separate Maritime Army and supervised its evacuation from Odessa to the Crimea. From 9 November 1941, while retaining command of Maritime Army, deputy to Admiral Oktyabr’skiy in charge of land defense of Sebastopol, 30 June 1942, upon orders from Supreme Command Headquarters, evacuated by submarine from Sebastopol.
26 August — 12 October 1942 commander, 44th Army on the Transcaucasian Front. 11 October 1942 — 16 March 1943 commander. Black Sea Forces Group on Transcaucasian and North Caucasian Fronts.
16 March — 13 May 1943 1st deputy commander and chief of staff, North Caucasian Front. 13 May — 20 November 1943 commander, North Caucasian Front, directed operations for liberation of Novorossiysk and Taman Peninsula. From 20 November 1943, after liquidation of North Caucasian Front, commanded Separate Maritime Army.
Prepared operation for liberation of the Crimea but was suddenly replaced as army commander. 14 April — 5 June 1944 commander, 2nd Belorussian Front. Removed from this post due to intrigues on the part of Mekhlis.
5 August 1944 — April 1945 commander, 4th Ukraine Front, removed from this post following abortive offensive in the Carpathians. From April 1945 chief of staff, 1st Ukraine Front. 1945-1952 commander, Turkestani Military district, 1952-1958 1st deputy chief inspector, then head, Main Combat and Physical Training Board.
1st deputy commander in chief of ground forces. Chief inspector, Min of Defense. Deputy, USSR Supreme Soviet of 1946, 1950 and 1954 convocations, deputy, Uzbek Supreme Soviet.
Member, Central Committee, Communist Party Uzbek.
Religion is bad because it doesn't give equal treatment to women and thus offends basic human rights.
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 1918.