Vladimir Ivanovich Kostylev ( 1899 - 1970 ) - Soviet commander , colonel-general (1959). Member of the Civil and World War II.
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| Date of Birth | 1899 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of Birth | Posh Dobryanka, now Gorodnya district, Chernihiv region , Ukraine . | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 1970 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Moscow | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Affiliation |  Russian empire the USSR | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Type of army | Ground troops | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Years of service | 1919 - 1924 1941 - 196? | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Battles / Wars | Russian civil war The Great Patriotic War | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Biography
Born in 1899 in the village of Dobryanka, now Gorodnyansky district, Chernihiv region , Ukraine .
In the Red Army from 1919 to 1924. Member of the Civil War.
Since the beginning of the Great Patriotic War in 1941, he was again called to the Red Army as a representative of the Military Council of the Army in 348 SD, head of the 1st department of the operational management of the 31st army headquarters, head of the operational management of the Steppe, later the 2nd Ukrainian (1943-44) and 1st Ukrainian (1944-45) fronts.
For the Berlin and Prague operations was presented to the rank of Hero of the Soviet Union [1] [2] , but was awarded the Order of Suvorov I degree.
After the end of World War II he continued to serve in the Soviet Army.
In 1953-60 he was chief of staff of the Carpathian Military District.
In 1959, Kostylev was given the military rank of colonel general .
He died in 1970. Buried in Moscow at Novodevichy Cemetery [3]
Awards
USSR
- two orders of the Red Banner (including 1956)
- Order of Suvorov I degree (05/29/1945)
- Order of Kutuzov I degree (04/06/1945)
- Order of Suvorov, II degree (08/11/1944)
- Order of Kutuzov II degree (01/19/1944)
- Order of the Patriotic War, I degree (08.29.1943) [4]
- two orders of the Red Star (02.21.1942 [5] , 1951)
- USSR medals
Foreign awards
Memory
Notes
- ↑ Site Feat of the People - Presentation1 on the assignment of the title GSS on Kostyleva V.I.
- ↑ Site Feat of the People - Submission for the assignment of the title GSS2 on Kostyleva V.I.
- ↑ Novodevichy Necropolis (Inaccessible link) . The appeal date is September 28, 2014. Archived April 6, 2015.
- ↑ Site Feat of People - Award list1 on Kostyleva V.I.
- ↑ Site Feat of the People - Award sheet2 on Kostyleva V.I.
