Ivanov, Andrey Andreevich

Ivanov Andrey Andreevich was born on November 29, 1904 in the village of Selishche ^[1] , now the Chudovsky District of the Novgorod Region . In the Red Army since 1926. Member of the CPSU (b) since 1928.

Education

• junior school staff in the city of Novgorod (1927)
• Soviet party school (1928)
• external course of an infantry platoon commander (1930)
• 4-month political courses at the Military-Political Academy. V.I. Lenin (1935)
• short-term courses for commissioners of units under the Political Administration of the Red Army (1937)

Before the war

He served in the Red Army in the rifle units of the Leningrad Military District: cadet, senior clerk, secretary of the political division, political instructor of the rifle company and regimental school. In 1932 he was transferred to the Air Force to the aviation brigade of the Leningrad Military District as a party political apparatus: head of the party cabinet of the aviation brigade, political instructor of the aerodrome team, political unit assistant to the air fleet, military squadron commissar, military bomber aviation regiment, military commander of the bomber aviation brigade. In this position he participated in the campaign of the Red Army in Western Ukraine and in the war against the white Finns of 1939-1940. . In July 1940 he was appointed military commissar of the 2nd Mixed Aviation Division.

During the war

Member of World War II from June 22, 1941. He met the Great Patriotic War as a commissar of the 2nd Aviation Division , formed on the eve of the war in 1938 in Staraya Russa . He fought on the Leningrad Front .

During the Great Patriotic War, he was deputy commander for political affairs of the 13th Air Army ( Leningrad Front ). Since September 1941 - Military Commissioner of the Air Force of the Leningrad Front with the rank of Brigadier Commissioner . Since November 1942, the deputy commander for political affairs of the 13th Air Army on the Leningrad Front. During the Great Patriotic War, as of 10/28/1942, he personally performed 35 sorties in the most threatened areas ^[2] “Flying Commissioner”. That's what everyone called him on the Leningrad Front. He enjoyed special love with the flight crew. There was no corner where Commissioner A. Ivanov did not fly. This man did not sit in his office, he was in the thick of things, he knew people very well, their needs and needs. The handling was simple and affordable. ^[2] A special merit of brigade commissar A. Ivanov A. in that he ensured the preservation of personnel in the hungry conditions of the winter of 1941-1942.

“... that the special merit of A. A. Ivanov lies in the fact that he managed to ensure the preservation of personnel during the hunger period of the winter of 1941-1942. Retention of military personnel and civilian personnel by finding additional food allowed the repair bodies to be efficient for the entire period and provide for the front air force the production of aircraft and engines ”

- Air Force Commander of the Leningrad Front, General S. D. Rybalchenko

December 6, 1942 awarded the rank of Major General of Aviation . Since April 1943 - deputy commander of the 13th Air Army for political affairs. October 13, 1944 took command of the 2nd Guards Assault Aviation Corps on the 1st Ukrainian Front . He took part in the planning and implementation of operations and battles:

• Breakthrough of the blockade of Leningrad (Operation Spark) from January 12, 1943 to January 30, 1943
• The Mginsky operation from July 22, 1943 to August 22, 1943
• Novgorod-Luga operation from January 14, 1944 to February 15, 1944
• Leningrad-Novgorod operation from January 14, 1944 to March 1, 1944
• Krasnoselsko-Ropshinskaya operation from January 14, 1944 to January 30, 1944
• Vyborg operation from June 10, 1944 to June 20, 1944
• Svir-Petrozavodsk operation from June 21, 1944 to June 22, 1944
• Narva operation from July 24, 1944 to July 30, 1944
• Baltic operation from September 14, 1944 to November 24, 1944
• Tallinn operation from September 17, 1944 to September 26, 1944

October 22, 1944 suddenly died at a military post in the village Lubnitsa Gzesztow, Poland . Andrei Andreyevich was buried on the Communist site of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra , St. Petersburg .

Posts

• Military Commissioner of the 2nd Aviation Division
• Military Commissioner of the Air Force of the Leningrad Front
• Deputy commander of the 13th Air Army for political affairs ( Leningrad Front ), member of the Military Council .
• Deputy commander of the 13th Air Army , member of the Military Council
• Commander of the 2nd Guards Assault Aviation Corps

• Order of Lenin (11/23/1942) ^[2]
• Order of the Red Banner (1940)
• Order of the Red Banner ^[3] (10/05/1944)
• Order of Kutuzov 1st degree ^[4] (06/22/1944)
• Order of Kutuzov, 2nd degree ^[5] (02.21.1944)
• medal for "Defense of Leningrad"
• medals

• On the Communist site of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra , in St. Petersburg, an Obelisk was installed ^[6]

• Immortal regiment (inaccessible link)
• Team of authors . World War II: Comcor. Military Biographical Dictionary / Edited by M. G. Vozhakin . - M .; Zhukovsky: Kuchkovo Field, 2006 .-- T. 2 .-- S. 381-382. - ISBN 5-901679-08-3 .