Background
BOGDANOV, Semyon was born on August 28, 1894 in Saint St. Petersburg. Son of a worker at the Pulilov Plant.
BOGDANOV, Semyon was born on August 28, 1894 in Saint St. Petersburg. Son of a worker at the Pulilov Plant.
1923 graduate Moscow Higher Military-Pedagogical School. 1930 graduate Higher Infantry Tactics Courses. 1936 graduate acad courses at Military Academy for Motorization and Mechanization.
1907-1915 apprentice mechanic and mechanic, Putilov Plant. 1915-1918 private, then officer, Russian Army. From 1918 in Red Army.
1918-1920 platoon, company then battalion commander. From 1923 held teaching, staff and command posts. 1930-1938 commanded infantry regl, mechanized brigade of a mechanized corps, Leningrad Military district.
1940-1941 taught history at a secondary school in Luga. 1941-1942 commander, 30th Tank Division. Head. Armored Troops Board, Moscow Military district.
Deputy commander, 5th Army, Mozhaysk Sector of Moscow Defense System. Chief of armored troops, 10th Army. 1943-1945 commander, 6th Mechanized Corps.
July 1943-1947 commander 2nd Tank Army, reformed in 1944 as 2nd Guards Tank Army. 1947-1948 deputy commander, 1948-1954 commander. Armored and Mechanized Troops of Soviet Army.
1954-1956 commandant, Armored Forces Academy. From May 1956 retired on medical grounds. World War 1 and Civil War veteran.
April 1938 arrested by State Security organs and imprisoned until 1940. During imprisonment his family renounced him as an "enemy of the people". 1941-1945 fought at Brest, Moscow and Stalingrad, and in the Korsun’-Shcvchenko, Warsaw-Poznan, EastPomeranian and Berlin operations.
As commander of Soviet armored and mechanized troops, reequipped them with new material and modernized them. Deputy, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Supreme Soviet of 1946, 1950 and 1954 convocations. 1952-1956 candidate member, Central Committee, Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Communist Party member from 1942.