His service record
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Card nr. D-275987
1. Last name, first name and patronymic: Ivanov, Grigory Yakovlevich
2. Born on: March 18, 1908
3. Nationality: Russian
4. Knowledge of foreign languages and level of mastery, except for his native language: No
5. Place of birth (according to the current administrative division): Village of Syrozhevka, Stodolishche Raion, Smolensk Oblast
6. Social situation and profession (prior to call-up for the Armed Forces): Worker
7. Party affiliation
Member of the Communist Party since: 1932
Party membership booklet nr.: 01886174
Candidate member of the Communist Party since:
Member of the Komsomol since:
Not a party member:
Membership of other parties: No
Party penalties and changes in party affiliation: No
8. Education (note the exact name of the educational institution, when graduated, period of education and number of classes or courses in case of unfinished education):
General and special: Had received 9 classes of education in 1951 at the divisional club’s evening school
Military: Graduated from 9th Military Aviation Officer School, city of Rogan, Kharkov Military District, attending a pilot course from August 28, 1933 to December 17, 1934, and finished the Lipetsk Advanced Air Force Officer Training Course, city of Lipetsk, a short course he attended from March 3, 1944 to April 20, 1944
Political: No
9. Conferment of military ranks By whose order Order nr. Date
Senior Lieutenant People’s Commissariat of Defense 02211 Nov 4, 1938
Captain Air Forces of the Central Asian Military District 01718 Oct 20, 1942
Major 3rd Ukrainian Front 0287 May 9, 1944
Lieutenant Colonel Air Force 03314 Sep 2, 1948
10. Service at the front in the Patriotic War (when, where and for how long): On the Northcaucasian Front from January 1, 1943 to February 25, 1943; on the Southwestern Front from May 10, 1943 to October 19, 1943; and on the 3rd Ukrainian Front from October 19, 1943 to May 9, 1945
11. Participation in the Civil War, the Winter War and other combat actions for the defense of the USSR prior to the Patriotic War (where, from when to when, day, month and year): No
12. Wounds and contusions (when, where and nature of the wound): Lightly wounded in the left leg on April 1, 1945
13. Biographical certificate nr. , date of issue
14. When (month and year) called up for the Armed Forces, having worked in which capacity, from where (name and location of enterprise, kolkhoz etc.), and by which military commissariat (if called up several times, note consecutively from when to when he served and when he was called up for the last time): Drafted by the Military Commissariat of the Dnepropetrovsk Oblast on August 28, 1933, having served as a machine operator at the Lenin Electric-Crane Factory, city of Dnepropetrovsk
15. Service in the Armed Forces:
Name of position Place of service (unit, institution, formation, army, front, district, fleet or flotilla) By whose order Order nr. Day, month and year
Student 9th Military Aviation Officer School, city of Rogan, Kharkov Military District Aug 1933
Pilot instructor 9th Military Aviation Officer School, city of Rogan, Kharkov Military District Revolutionary Military Council 80/0184 Dec 17, 1934
Flight instructor 9th Military Aviation Officer School, city of Rogan, Kharkov Military District People’s Commissariat of Defense 075/N Jan 23, 1937
Flight instructor Chuguyev Military Aviation School, city of Chuguyev, Kharkov Military District People’s Commissariat of Defense 2327 Aug 20, 1939
Flight commander Chuguyev Military Aviation School, city of Chuguyev, Kharkov Military District Red Army Air Forces 075 Oct 3, 1939
Temporary detachment commander Chuguyev Military Aviation School, city of Chuguyev, Kharkov Military District and city of Shymkent, Central Asian Military District Central Asian Military District 0182 Feb 1, 1942
Temporary detachment commander Chuguyev Military Aviation School, city of Shymkent, Central Asian Military District Central Asian Military District 0182 Feb 1, 1942
Aviation squadron commander 116th Fighter Aviation Regiment, 238th Ground-Assault Aviation Division 238th Ground-Assault Aviation Division 010 Sep 24, 1942
Aviation squadron commander 116th Fighter Aviation Regiment, 295th Fighter Aviation Division, 5th Air Army, North Caucasian Front 5th Air Army 011/15 Mar 21, 1943
Regimental navigator 116th Fighter Aviation Regiment, 295th Fighter Aviation Division 5th Air Army 01174 Mar 30, 1943
Assistant division commander for aerial gunnery affairs Headquarters of the 295th Fighter Aviation Division, 3rd Ukrainian Front 9th Mixed Aviation Corps 73 i/s Oct 7, 1943
Student Advanced Air Force Officer Training Course, city of Lipetsk Mar 1944
Assistant division commander for aerial gunnery affairs Headquarters of the 295th Fighter Aviation Division, 17th Air Army Air Force 0174 Apr 30, 1945
Chief of aerial gunnery affairs Headquarters of the 288th Fighter Aviation Division Air Force 0661 Jul 20, 1946
Assistant regimental commander 866th Fighter Aviation Regiment, 288th Fighter Aviation Division, 17th Air Army 17th Air Army 0137 Oct 15, 1947
Chief of aerial gunnery affairs 288th Fighter Aviation Division 288th Fighter Aviation Division 010 Jun 4, 1948
Air Force 0490 Feb 22, 1949
Chief of aerial gunnery affairs 283rd Fighter Aviation Division, 34th Air Army 34th Air Army 0112 May 18, 1950
Deputy chief of staff for Command and Direction Center affairs 170th Guards Fighter Aviation Division, 34th Air Army Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force 074 Jan 21, 1954 to Apr 30, 1954
Transfered to the reserve in accordance with article 59A (due to age).
Military commissar of the Lenin Raion
Guards Colonel [signed] /Trotsko/
Chief of the 3rd Section
Major [signed] /Zhdanov/
August 24, 1954 Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force 0463 Apr 8, 1954
Last name, first name and patronymic: Ivanov, Grigory Yakovlevich
16. Awards and award dates: Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd Class on February 11, 1943; Order of the Patriotic War, 1st Class on December 17, 1944; Order of Aleksandr Nevsky on June 12, 1945, Order of the Red Star; Medal for Combat Merit on November 2, 1944; Medal for the Defense of the Caucasus; Medal for the Victory over Germany on May 9, 1945; Medal for the Capture of Budapest; Medal for the Capture of Vienna on June 9, 1945; Medal for the Liberation of Belgrade on June 9, 1945; Medal for the Liberation of Bulgaria; Medal for 30 Years of Soviet Army on February 22, 1948
17. Stays abroad (when, where and for how long): Spent time abroad with the German Occupational Forces in Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Austria, and Hungary from August 25, 1944 to June 28, 1945
18. Service in the old army, last duty position and rank: No
19. Service in the White Army or other foreign armies (only note service in foreign armies when the officer wasn’t serving in the Soviet Army at the same time): No
20. Has he been in captivity or surrounded, when, where and for how long (only note escapes separate from his unit): No
21. Has he been convicted, when and by which courts, what for and for how long, has the conviction been retracted (note periods with penal units as part of the sentence): No
22. Registration numbers:
23. Registered where: Military Commissariat of the Lenin Raion, city of Dnepropetrovsk, Kiev Military District
24. Personnel category: Commanding officers, reserve of the 3rd category
25. Branch of arms: , military specialty nr. 97
26. State of health: Unfit for peacetime service, limitedly fit (2nd category) for wartime service
27. Attended trainings:
28. Place of service and duty position (or nature of activities outside military service): Temporarily unemployed
29. Family situation and address (note last name, first name and patronymic, wife’s year of birth, children’s names and years of birth, father’s and mother’s name and patronymic if the officer is a bachelor, address of the officer’s family if living apart, address of the reserve officer himself): Married. Wife, Aleksandra Semyonovna Ivanova, born in 1915. Daughter Valentina born in 1936, daughter Lyudmila born in 1939. 11 4th Kaidakskaya Street, Noviye Kaidaki, city of Dnepropetrovsk
30. Special remarks:
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