The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Division-Commissar Ivan Mikhailovich Gornostaev

Gornostaev, Ivan Mikhailovich

Division-Commissar

* January 1897

† 25th of August 1938

(Иван Михайлович Горностаев)

Promotions

1935-11-28 Division-Commissar

Service

1928-08-XX 1929-03-XX Military Commissar, Vladivostok Infantry School
1929-03-XX 1929-09-XX Assistant Commandant for Political Affairs, Tashkent Infantry School
1929-09-XX 1931-03-XX Chief of the Political Section, 34th Rifle Division
1931-03-XX 1932-07-XX Instructor at the Military-Technical Academy
1932-07-XX 1933-02-XX Instructor at the Military Academy of Mechanisation & Motorisation
1933-02-XX 1935-02-XX Chief of the Political Section, 4th Rifle Division
1935-02-XX 1937-07-XX Assistant Commanding Officer for Political Affairs, XI Rifle Corps
1937-07-XX 1938-02-XX Chief of the Political Section, Kiev Military District
1938-02-XX Dismissed
1938-02-19 1938-08-25 Arrested
1938-08-25 Condemned to death
1938-08-25 Executed
1956-07-11 Rehabilitated
Picture source: Courtesy of Mikhail Eremenko