Background
ZHDANOV, Vladimir was born on April 29, 1902 in Kiev.
ZHDANOV, Vladimir was born on April 29, 1902 in Kiev.
He attended the Military Academy of the General Staff from 1941 to 1942. He attended the Military Academy of the General Staff in 1950 and 1951.
He was a Major General in the Soviet Red Army during World World War World War II
He began his military career in 1941 as the Assistant Commandant of the Syzransk Tank School. He commanded the IV Guards Mechanized Corps in 1944 and 1945. From 1945 to 1947 he was the Commanding Officer of the 5th Guards Mechanized Division.
He then commanded the 6th Guards Mechanized Division from 1947 to 1949.
From 1951 to 1953 he was also the Assistant Commander in Chief of the Far Eastern Military District. He also served as the Deputy Commander in Chief of the Southern Ural Military District and the Soviet Central Group of Forces.
He was also the First Assistant Commander in Chief of the Transbaikal Military District. From 1961 to 1964, he was the Senior Military Adviser to the East German Army.
In 1964, he was the Commandant of the Military Academy of the Tank Forces in the Soviet Union.
He was the commander of the IV Guards Mechanized Corps in 1944 during the This unit captured Belgrade on October 20, 1944. He was awarded the medal Order of the People"s Hero of Yugoslavia. Two streets were also named after him in Belgrade.
He died on October 19, 1964 when his plane crashed at Avala while he was to attend the 20th anniversary of the Soviet liberation of Belgrade on October 20, 1944.
Soviet Marshal Sergey Biryuzov was also killed in the crash. Resavska Street in downtown Belgrade was named after him from 1946 to 1951 and then again from 1965 to 1997.
In 2010, a street in Novi Beograd or New Belgrade was named after him.
Religion is bad because it divides people, and is a cause of conflict and war.
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 1941.