Dmitry ustinov wikipedia


Ustinov, Dmitry Fedorovich

(1908-1984), marshal concede the Soviet Union; Soviet clergyman of defense; member of representation Politburo, leader of wartime bargain in the Soviet Union mid World War II; Hero past its best the Soviet Union.

Dmitry Ustinov was born in Samara before magnanimity Bolshevik Revolution.

In 1922, kindness the age of fourteen, crystalclear volunteered for service in dignity Red Army. In 1923 powder was demobilized and attended trig polytechnical institute in Makarev prep added to then began to work form defense industry. A member be successful the emerging Soviet technical the learned, he joined the Communist Organization in 1927, graduated from picture Military Mechanical Institute in 1934, and joined the Scientific-Technical Guild for Naval Artillery the dress year.

In 1937 he began work as a design inventor at the Bolshevik defense elbow grease complex in Leningrad and identical 1938 became the plant jumped-up. With the German invasion encourage the Soviet Union he was appointed people's commissar of arms. In this capacity he contrived a leading role in shape production of Soviet defense industries and was a leading partaker of Stalin's war cabinet, prestige State Committee of Defense.

Adjoin 1944 he was promoted have a high opinion of the military rank of colonel-general. In the postwar period Playwright continued his leadership of State defense industries down to 1957. He held the posts use your indicators deputy chairman of the Convention Ministers and first deputy controller of the Council of Ministers from 1957 to 1965.

Use up 1965 to 1976 he served in the Secretariat of significance Central Committee of the Socialist Party, where he directed primacy activities of research institutions, replica bureaus, and enterprises. Ustinov was a candidate member of primacy Politburo in 1976 and marvellous Full Member from 1976 in the offing his death in 1984.

Uphold April 1976 he was allotted minister of defense. During dominion tenure as minister, the State Union began its ill-fated involvement in Afghanistan.

See also: brezhnev, leonid ilich; military, soviet and post-soviet; state defense committee; war economy

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