Tulga, Ivan Nikolaevich

Ivan Nikolaevich Tulga was born on February 14, 1914 in the city of Yuzovka (now - Donetsk , Ukraine ). In 1933, he graduated from the city telephone network department of the Minsk Electronic College of Communications, after which he worked as deputy technical director of the Dzerzhinsky District Communications Department of the Minsk Region of the Belorussian SSR ^[1] .

In August 1936, Tulga was called up for service in the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army . In 1939, he graduated from the Kiev Higher Military Engineering School of Communications named after M. I. Kalinin ^[1] . He participated in the battles of the Soviet-Finnish war, was awarded his first military award - the medal "For Military Merit" ^[2] .

During the Great Patriotic War, Ivan Tulga served as a senior assistant to the head of the telegraph and telephone communications department of the 1st department of the Communications Directorate of the Volkhov Front . He personally supervised the repair and restoration work on the ground of enemy bombing, and restored the damaged communication lines ^[2] .

After the war, Tulga continued to serve in the Soviet Army. In the 1950s, he graduated from the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR ^[1] . In 1959, Tulga was appointed to the post of head of the Gorky Military School of Communications (now the St. Petersburg Military University of Communications ) ^[3] . In 1962, he was transferred to Kiev as the head of the Kiev Higher Military Engineering School of Communications named after M. I. Kalinin, which he once graduated from ^[1] .

In 1972, the rank of Major General of the Liaison Forces Tulga resigned. He lived in Kiev . He died in 1980, was buried at the Lukyanovsky military cemetery in Kiev.

He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner , World War 2 degree and the Red Star , a number of medals.