Background
KOVTYUKH, Ycpifan was born on May 21, 1890 in village Baturino, Kherson Province. Son of a poor peasant.
KOVTYUKH, Ycpifan was born on May 21, 1890 in village Baturino, Kherson Province. Son of a poor peasant.
1916 graduate ensign school. 1922 graduate Red Army Military Academy. 1927 graduate advanced officer-training courses.
From 1911 in Russian Army. 1914-1918 served on Caucasian Front. From 1918 in Red Army.
1918 commander, revol company. Deputy commander, Red Army detachment in Kuban’. Commander, Taman Army.
1919-1920 commander, 3rd Taman Infantry Division and 50lh Infantry Division. 1920 commander, composite corps, 11th Army. 1922-1936 commanded rifle div, then rifle corporations
1936-1938 army inspector and deputy commander, Belorussian Military district. August-September 1918 during retreat of Taman Army from Kuban’ along the Black Sea through Novorossiysk on the Tuapse and thence across the mountains to Armavir brilliantly commanded advance-guard 1st Column against all odds. These events are described in A. South. Serafimov’s novel Zheleznyy potok (The Iron Stream), in which he figured as the hero under the name of Kozhukh.
Fall 1920 headed landing operation in the rear of While General Ulagay in Kuban'. 1921, while a cadet at the Military Academy, helped crush Kronstadt Mutiny. 1938 arrested by People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs.
Number religious basis is needed in order to display ethical behavior.
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.