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Portrait of Lieutenant-General of Tank Troops Ivan Vasilevich Kononov

Kononov, Ivan Vasilevich

Lieutenant-General of Tank Troops

* 26th of September 1899

† 5th of October 1966

(Иван Васильевич Кононов)

Promotions

1938-03-04 Colonel
1942-08-04 Major-General of Tank Troops
1944-08-26 Lieutenant-General of Tank Troops

Service

1934-02-20 1938-08-XX Assisant Commanding Officer for Technical Affairs, 31st Mechanised Brigade
1938-08-XX 1940-05-14 Assisant Commanding Officer for Technical Affairs, 13th Light Tank Brigade
1940-05-14 1940-11-23 Commanding Officer 29th Light Tank Brigade
1940-11-23 1941-03-12 Attending Frunze Military Academy
1941-03-12 1941-06-24 Deputy Commanding Officer 22nd Tank Division
1941-06-24 1941-08-14 Commanding Officer 22nd Tank Division
1941-08-14 1941-12-31 Commandant of Leningrad Tank Training Centre
1941-12-31 1942-01-22 Chief of 5th Section, Tank Forces, Leningrad Front
1942-01-22 1942-04-10 Chief of Personnel Section, Tank Forces, Leningrad Front
1942-04-10 1942-05-07 Commanding Officer 123rd Tank Brigade
1942-05-07 1942-10-12 Commanding Officer 1st Leningrad Tank Brigade
1942-10-XX 1942-12-08 Deputy Commanding Officer 67th Army
1942-12-08 1943-01-30 Commanding Officer Tank Forces, Leningrad
1943-01-30 1943-05-22 Deputy Commander in Chief for Tank Forces, Volkhov Front
1943-05-22 1944-05-XX Commanding Officer Tank & Mechanised Forces, Volkhov Front
1944-05-XX 1945-05-XX Commanding Officer Tank & Mechanised Forces, Karelian Front
1945-05-XX 1945-08-05 Commanding Officer Tank & Mechanised Forces, Primorsk Group of Forces
1945-08-05 Commanding Officer Tank & Mechanised Forces, 1st Far Eastern Front
1946-02-28 1948-03-16 Commanding Officer Tank & Mechanised Forces, Primorsk Military District
1948-03-16 1951-12-XX Commanding Officer Tank & Mechanised Forces, Northern Caucasian Military District
1951-12-15 1952-11-01 Attending the Military Academy of the General Staff
1953-01-29 1955-01-29 Commandant of Kazan Senior Officers' Technical School
1955-01-29 Retired
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