Ivanov, Grigorij Jakovlevich, Lieutenant-Colonel, Squadron Commander, 17th Air Army

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While he and his (sadly incomplete) group are mentioned, directly and indirectly, on other threads, his group and his service deserves a full posting.

I have only partial tranalstions/summaries/precis of the research, so bear with me in cases of strained coherence.

Ivanov, Grigory Yakovlevich, Lieutenant Colonel, born 1908 village of (Saratovka?), (Sepolitensky?) Raion, Smolenskaya Oblast. Member of CPSU since 1932, higher education, Russian.

He was Russian, working class origin, no foreign languages. CPSU 1932 # 1,886,174.

Sr Lt 4.11.3(9?)
Captain 20.10.42
Major 9.5.44
Lt Col 2.9.48

Red Army August 1939 to May 1954

Served on Northern Caucasus Front 1.1.-25.2.43
Southwest Front 10.5.-13.10.43
3rd Ukrainian Front 13.10.43-9.5.45
light wound in left leg 1 April 1945

Served beyond the state borders of the USSR in Rumania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Austria, and Hungary 25.3.44 to 28.6.45. Stationed in Rumania 28.6.45 to 1.4.50.

Called up 28.8.33 as a machinist in Dnepropetrovsk Electro-Crane Factory "in the name of Lenin."
August 1933 (he was 25!!!) Student at 9th School of Military Aviation for Pilots and Lieutenants at Rogan, Kharkov Military District
17.12.34 Pilot ("Pilot") Instructor at above
23.1.37 Pilot ("Letchnik"-- I have NO idea what DIFFERENCE the two terms convey) as above
20.8.39 Pilot (Letchnik) Instructor at Chugusky School of military Aviation, Chugus', Kharkov Mil Dist
3.10.39 Squadron Commander at above
1.2.42 "Vrid" ( = ?) Commander of a detachment at the same, but relocated (obviously!) to the city of Chimkent in "S.A." (this evades me at the moment) Mil Dist
24.9.42 Squadron Commander in 116th Fighter Aviation Regiment, 238th Ground Attack (Shturmovik) Aviation Division
21.3.43 Squadron Commander still in 116th Fighter Av Rgt but now in 295th Fighter Av Div, 3rd Air Army, No caucasus Front
30.3.43 Regimental Navigator of above
7.10.43 Deputy Commander of 295th Fighter Av Div "for V.S.S." ( = aerial gunnery, I think--see below) on 3rd Ukrainian Front
March 1944 student at courses for regular Red Army aviation officers at Lipetsk (site of secret 1920s-30s cooperation with the Reichsheer)
30.4.45 Deputy Commander of 295th Fighter Av Div for "V.S.S" ( = aerial gunnery ?), only now in 17th Air Army
20.7.46 Commander for aerial gunnery, 288th Fighter Av Div
15.10.47 Deputy Regimental Commander, 866th Fighter Av Rgt, 288th Fighter Av Div, 17th Air Army
4.6.48 Commander for aerial gunnery, 288th Fighter Av Div
22.2.49 Commander for aerial gunnery (spelled out), 283rd Fighter Av Div, 34th Air Army
18.5.50 exactly the same
21.1.54 Deputy Staff Commander for air traffic control, 170th Guards Aviation Division, 34th Air Army
8.4.54 to the reserves per para 59 "A" "(for age)"

Decorated as Deputy Staff Commander for Navigation Control Center, 170th Guards Fighter Aviation Division.

Not working.

So discharged "for age" (46) as Lt Colonel-- and what was a fighter pilot/aerial gunnery officer THEN supposed to DO? (hence 1957 "unemployment")

Living at 4 Ulitsa No 11, City of Dnepropetrovsk, ...........

ARC filled out 27 (July?) 195(7?)

awards listed in the order top to bottom =

OPW2 # 3,348 11.2.43 per 5th V.A. ...
OPW 1 # 65,186 17.12.44 per 17th V.A. ...
Aleksander Nevsky # 34,193 12.6.45 per 17th V.A. ...
ORS # 2,807,274 20.6.49 for long service [MISSING]
ORB # 404,872 30.4.54 for long service
CSM # 1,570,028 3.11.44 for long service
Medals for Defense of the Caucasus, Victory Over Germany, Liberation of Belgrade, capture of Budpaest, Capture of Vienna, 1948 Armed Forces Jubilee, and a "Bulgarian" that just has ditto marks on 28.4.48