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    Lieutenant General Ivan Ivanov Kravchenko


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    There is MUCH more, including the historically fascinating autobiographies, but I sense (and I share) a desire to get on to the bleeding citations.

    So . . . let me see what I can find . . . .

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    Guest Rick Research

    OK< stop there, Ed, and I will back-fill in the previous. I'll be adding bits as I scribble 'em off the screen onto paper, then retype (the slow part)

    Post #21 = born 17 July 1920, village actually spelled Gulyaevka, Oblast now politically corrected to Volgogradsky.

    Still showing "ethnicity Russian" (SIC! UKRAINIAN!!!!!!!!!!)

    Party number 1,861,963

    Post #22 = Class in musical techniques :cheeky::cheeky::cheeky: Ashkabad 1940

    Machinegun School Ala-Ata 1941

    "Vystrel" courses 1942

    Frunze Military Academy 1952

    "VLK VAGSh-2nd" in 1969 (whatever THAT was)

    Post #23 = just "nothing applies"

    Post #24 = Volunteered for the Red Army 12 October 1938

    12.10.38-1.7.40 Private in 230th Mountain Rifles Regt, 83rd Mtn Rifles Div, Far East Military District

    1.7.40-22.7.41 Cadet at the Machinegun School, Far East Military District

    22.7.41-15.4.42 Platoon Commander there

    15.4.42-20.4.43 Company commander there

    Post # 25 =

    20.4.-22.10.43 "Vystrel" courses student, FEMD

    22.10.43-25.10.44 Battalion Commander, 89th Reserve Regiment, 32nd Reserve Rifles Division, FEMD (I assume this were replacement units and not field units)

    25.10.-24.11.44 unassigned awaiting assignemnt at 52nd Army, 1st Ukrainian Front

    24.11.44-11.9.45 Rifles Battalion Commander in 441st Rifles Regiment, 116th Rifles Division (one of his veterans pins is this division), 52nd Army, 1st Ukr. Front (so here he earned his WW2 decorations)

    Post #26 =

    11.9.45-18.9.46 Commander of Instruction Battalion, Independent Instruction Btn of 213rd Rifles Divison, 52nd Army

    18.9.46-1.10.49 Rifles Btn CO, 274th Rifles Regt, 24th Rifles Div, Prikarpatsky Military District

    1.10.49-10.11.52 Student at Frunze Military Academy

    10.11.52-29.10.54 Cadet Btn CO, Cherpovetsky Infantry School in the lovely to visit, nice to get the hell out of White Sea Military District

    29.10.-9.11.54 at disposal of Military Commander, White Sea Military District

    (and just so you are not dying of suspense the SHORT form of his 1968 Red Banner is a shockingly improper Brezhnevian Era bestowal for being great Commandant of the Kiev Highest General/Common Miliutary Command School)

    Post #27 (while these typed entries are easy to translate, sooooo mannnnny. Native Russian speakers, please feel free. My own school Russian is not the best, hampered by genetic resistance and race memory of my "home town" being burned to the ground in the Great Northern War. :rolleyes: ) =

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    There is more (autobiographies, fitness reports, etc., etc.), which I'll be happy to post, even at the risk of exhausting jolly forum cooperation, but let me close with the image from his file.

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    Post #27 =

    9.11.54-16.1.57 Cadet Btn CO, Caucasian Suvorov Officers School, Northern Caucasus Military District

    16.1.57-31.5.58 Assistant for Rifles Branch to the School Commandant as above

    31.5.58-18.10.60 Regimental Commander, 70th Guards Motor Rifles Regiment, 42nd Guards Motor Rifles Division, NoCMD

    18.10.60-14.1.61 Regimental Commander same but renamed as 70th Gds Instructional MotRif Rgt, 42nd Gds Instructional MotRif Div

    Post #28 =

    14.1.61-14.9.63 Commander of Staff and Deputy Divisional Commander, as above

    14.9.63-5.10.66 Divisional Commander, 37th Guards Instructional (renamed 63rd Guards Instructional) MotRif Div, Leningrad Military District

    (I've used "Instructional" but the more common term is "Training.")

    Post #29=

    5.10.66- 4.2.70 School Commandant of Kiev Higher General/Common Military Command School "in the name of M. V. Frunze." (I assume this indicates a "combined arms" higher staff officers' school, a "white diamond" badge establishment)

    4.2.70-15.5.73 Corps Commander, 12th "Red Banner" Army Corps, NoCMD

    Post #30 =

    15.5.73-3.6.74 Representative of Supreme Commander of the Combined Armed Forces for Command of the Army in the Czechoslovakian National Army

    3.6.74-16.7.76 (to be continued when fingernails stop bleeding :cheeky: )

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