In the army since 1928. He graduated from the Military Economic Academy in 1938 in the Red Army in the city of Kharkov. In 1931 - platoon commander, assistant company commander, company commander of an infantry division. In 1939-1940 - an officer for special assignments of the General Staff of the Red Army, senior assistant to the head of the Department of Logistics and Supply of the General Staff of the Red Army. During World War II, he was an assistant to the chief of the mobile department of the Logistics and Supply Directorate of the General Staff of the Red Army, chief of staff of the logistics department: Volkhov Front, Steppe Front, 2nd Ukrainian Front, Trans-Baikal Front. In 1953-1959 - chief of staff of the Logistics of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR, later became deputy minister of defense.
Position: Chief of Staff of the Logistics of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR
He was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery .
Prepositional Case
Quote from the memoirs of Elena Kudinova “ Life without embellishment ” [1] :
Many large medical specialists were arrested, including Professor Egorov, who headed the Kremlin Sanitary Directorate. Colonel General Smirnov, recently appointed Minister of Health, has been relieved of his post. Feuilleton appeared in the press, making fun of “The Priority of Jews in Music, Medicine, Pharmacy, the Bar”, etc. The shortest joke was in use: “The Jewish Collective Farmer”.
The deputy of our academy was General Malykhin Fedor Methodius, a rude but fair person. I once had a visit with him on the curriculum and said that General Smirnov was out of work now. It is a pity that such a large specialist in military medicine is inactive, let's invite him to the academy and organize a department of military medicine. He laughed and replied: "Yes, you know that for Smirnov our academy is too small."
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