Ivan Tyulenev Explained

Ivan Vladimirovich Tyulenev
Ива́н Влади́мирович Тюле́нев
Birth Date:28 January 1892
Birth Place:Shatrashany, Simbirsk Governorate, Russian Empire
Death Place:Moscow, Soviet Union
Allegiance: Russian Empire (1913–1917)
(1917–1922)
(1922–1958)
Branch:Imperial Russian Army
Red Army
Serviceyears:1913–1958
Rank:General of the Army (USSR)
Commands:12th Army
Southern Front
28th Army
Transcaucasian Military District
Transcaucasian Front.
Battles:World War I
Russian Civil War
Polish Soviet War
World War II
Awards:Hero of the Soviet Union
Order of St George
Order of Lenin (4 times)
Order of the October Revolution
Order of the Red Banner (5 times)
Order of Kutuzov (1st Class)
Order for Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR

Ivan Vladimirovich Tyulenev (; 28 January 1892[1] 15 August 1978[2]) was a Soviet military commander, one of the first to be promoted to the rank of General of the Army in 1940.

Biography

Tyulenvev was born into a soldier's family in the Simbirsk Governorate (now Ulyanovsk Oblast) settlement of Shatrashany. He worked in factories and as a Caspian Sea fisherman before being drafted into the Imperial Russian Army in 1913. During World War I he fought with the Kargopolsky dragoons in Congress Poland[3] [4] and was awarded the Order of St George for his courage.[5]

Tyulenvev joined the Red Army after the revolution and served during the Russian Civil War with the 1st Cavalry Army. In 1918 he joined the Bolshevik Party. He also took part in suppressing the Kronstadt rebellion and in the Polish Soviet War. In 1939 he commanded the 12th Army during the Soviet invasion of Poland.[6] He was promoted to General of the Army in 1940.

At the outbreak of the German-Soviet War in June 1941, he was in charge of the Moscow Military District.[7] In the first three months of the war, Tyulenev commanded the Southern Front. During the rest of the war, he was in command of the Transcaucasian Military District and Transcaucasian Front. Tyulenev was the author of several books of reminiscences, including Soviet Cavalry Fighting for the Fatherland (1957) and Through Three Wars (1972).

Honours and awards

Russian Empire
Soviet Union
Foreign awards

Notes and References

  1. Book: Лобов . Владимир Иванович . Рунов . Валентин Александрович . Военная элита России: советский период, 1917-1991. энциклопедический справочник . 2010 . Вече . 978-5-9533-4639-9 . 155 . 24 May 2024 . ru.
  2. Web site: Тюленев Иван Владимирович . warheroes.ru . 24 May 2024.
  3. Book: Dobrovolet͡s . 2004 . Voenno-istoricheskiĭ klub "Dobrovolet͡s--XX vek" . 44 . 24 May 2024 . ru.
  4. Book: Voennai͡a bylʹ . 1993 . Voennai͡a bylʹ . 5 . 24 May 2024 . ru.
  5. Book: Durov . Valeriĭ . Русские награды XVIII-начала XX в . 1997 . Просвещение . 978-5-09-006711-9 . 157 . 24 May 2024 . ru.
  6. Book: Великая Отечественная: 1941-1945. Действующая армия . 2005 . Кучково Поле . 978-5-86090-114-8 . 355 . 24 May 2024 . ru.
  7. Web site: Генерал армии Иван Владимирович Тюленев : Министерство обороны Российской Федерации . 24 May 2024 . 29 June 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170629003228/https://encyclopedia.mil.ru/encyclopedia/history/more.htm?id=12111049@cmsArticle . 2017-06-29 .