Yevgeny Filippowitsch Ivanovsky

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Army General Yevgeny Ivanovsky

Yevgeni Ivanovski ( Russian Евгений Филиппович Ивановский * 7. March 1918 in the village Tschereja, Vitebsk ; † 22. November 1991 in Moscow ) was a Soviet army general , deputy Soviet defense minister, 1972-1980 Supreme Commander of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany (GSSD) and Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Land Forces from 1985 to 1989.

Life

Ivanovsky comes from a peasant family from the Tschaschniki Rajon . His father found a job with the railroad in 1925 and the family moved to Krasny Liman in Donetsk Oblast . Ivanovsky finished high school there and worked as a radio technician on duty at a radio center.

In 1936 he joined the ranks of the Red Army and graduated from the Saratov tank school in 1938 . In 1939 he took part in the Soviet occupation of eastern Poland and fought in the Soviet-Finnish winter war from 1939 to 1940. For bravery in the fight on the Karelian Isthmus he was awarded the Order of the Red Star for the first time . In 1941 he completed a crash course at the Military Academy for Armored Forces .

Second World War

During the Great Patriotic War Ivanovsky was chief of staff, deputy chief of staff of a tank brigade, chief of staff of a tank reconnaissance unit and a special tank unit, commander of a tank regiment on the Western Front , Voronezh Front , Stalingrad Front and the 1st and 2nd Belarusian Fronts . He fought in the battles for Moscow and Stalingrad , at Kursk and on the Dnepr . He took part in the liberation of Ukraine and Poland , the battle for East Prussia and the Vistula-Oder operation .

post war period

After the Second World War, Ivanovsky was head of an army staff from 1946 to 1952, deputy commander for armored artillery of the armored and mechanized armed forces of the Belarusian military district from 1952 to 1953 , chief of staff of a mechanized division from 1953 to 1954 and commander of an armored division from 1954 to 1956. In 1958 he graduated from the Military Academy of the General Staff . From 1958 to 1961 Ivanovsky was 1st Deputy Chief of Staff of the Far Eastern Military District . He was commander of a tank army from March 1961 to December 1965, then until June 1968 as 1st deputy commander of the armed forces of the Moscow military district and then until July 1972 as the commander of this military district. From July 20, 1972 to November 25, 1980, Iwanowski commanded the GSSD from Wünsdorf . 1985 to put him as commander of Soviet ground forces and he was simultaneously Deputy USSR -Verteidigungsministers Grechko . By decision of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR was awarded to him on February 21, 1985 for

"... Courage and bravery in the fight against the German-fascist invaders in the years of the Great Patriotic War and competent leadership of the armed forces in the post-war period and perfecting their combat readiness ..."

the title Hero of the Soviet Union , associated with the presentation of the Order of Lenin . From 1971 to 1989 Ivanovsky was a member of the Central Committee of the CPSU and from 1970 to 1989 a member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR .

From 1989 until his death he worked in the group of inspectors general of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR. He lived in Moscow and was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery (Section 11). One street in Vitebsk bears the name of General Ivanovsky .

Awards

literature

  • Военная экциклопедия в 8 томах М .: Военное издательство, 1976–1981. Volume 3, p. 485

Web links

Commons : Yevgeny Filippowitsch Iwanowski  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Der Spiegel : 3/1972 , accessed on April 12, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Ivanovsky, Yevgeny Filippovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ивановский, Евгений Филиппович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet army general
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Tschereja
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 1991
Place of death Moscow