Ivan Gerasymov
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Ukrainian: Іва́н Олекса́ндрович Гера́симов, romanized: Ivan Oleksandrovych Herasymov, Russian: Иван Александрович Герасимов; August 8, 1921[2][3] – June 4, 2008) was a Soviet general, Ukrainian politician and deputy in the Ukrainian parliament (Verkhovna Rada).[4] He was a member of the Communist Party of Ukraine.[3][5]
Gerasymov was the oldest sitting member of the Verkhovna Rada at the time of his death on June 4, 2008, at the age of 86.[4]
Biography
An ethnic Russian, Ivan Aleksandrovich Gerasimov was born on 8 August 1921. In 1940, he joined the
Odesa Military District. From 1941 to 1942 he was the commander of a tank company on the South and South-Western Front. Throughout the rest of the war, he was the commander of a tank battalion on the North Caucasian Front, commander of a Tank Regiment of Voronezh, 1st Ukrainian Front and Chief of Staff of a Tank Brigade of the 2nd Far East Front
.
Postwar
After the war, he attended the
Soviet Ministry of Defence efforts there, in succession to General Vladimir Pikalov
.
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From 1990 until his retirement from the army in 1992 he was the Chief Inspector of the Main Inspectorate of the
Minsk Offensive's diamond jubilee.[7] On 27 October, he inspected the military parade on Maidan Nezalezhnosti in honor of the 60th anniversary of the Liberation of Ukraine along with Oleksandr Kuzmuk. He was a member of the Communist Party of Ukraine. He died on 4 June 2008 in Kyiv and is buried in Moscow. On 9 May 2010, in honor of the 65th anniversary of the end of the World War II
, a memorial plaque was installed in his honor at the building of the Ministry of Defense in Kyiv.
See also
References
- ^ "Офіційний портал Верховної Ради України". itd.rada.gov.ua. Retrieved 2024-02-21.
- ^ "Народний Депутат України". Archived from the original on April 11, 2008.
- ^ a b "The Makeup of the New Verkhovna Rada". Ukrainska Pravda. November 5, 2007. Archived from the original on March 17, 2008. Retrieved June 11, 2008.
- ^ Radio Ukraine. June 6, 2008. Archived from the originalon February 20, 2011. Retrieved June 9, 2008.
- ^ "Yatsenyuk opened morning session". for-ua.com. June 5, 2008. Archived from the original on May 21, 2011. Retrieved June 11, 2008.
- ^ Holm, Michael. "High Command of the Southwestern Direction". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2022-04-14.
- ^ "И белорусской доблести страницы достойны, чтобы ими восхититься!". gp.by (in Russian). Retrieved 2017-12-24.
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