The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Major-General Ivan Ignatevich Kuryshev

Kuryshev, Ivan Ignatevich

Major-General

* 2nd of July 1896

† 5th of May 1984

(Иван Игнатьевич Курышев)

Promotions

1942-12-20 Major-General

Service

1938-07-XX 1938-08-XX Commanding Officer 286th Rifle Regiment
1938-08-XX 1940-07-XX Commanding Officer 70th Rifle Corps
1940-07-XX 1941-03-XX Assistant Commanding Officer 3rd Rifle Division
1941-03-XX 1941-06-03 Commanding Officer 223rd Rifle Division
1941-06-03 1941-07-17 Commanding Officer 182nd Rifle Division
1941-07-28 1942-04-XX Commanding Officer 9th Airborne Brigade
1942-04-XX 1943-06-XX Commandant of Kuibyshev Airborne School
1943-06-XX 1944-01-XX Commanding Officer 7th Guards Airborne Brigade
1944-01-XX 1944-10-10 Head of Combat Training Directorate, Airborne Forces
1944-10-10 1945-07-XX Deputy commanding Officer XXXVII Guards Airborne Corps
1945-07-XX 1946-01-XX Hospitalised
1946-01-XX 1946-12-XX Deputy Commanding Officer VI Guards Rifle Corps
1946-12-XX 1947-12-XX Deputy Commanding Officer 25th Guards Mechanised Division
1947-12-XX 1948-12-XX Attending the Military Academy of the Tank & Mechanised Forces
1948-12-XX 1949-02-XX At disposal Commanding Officer Airborne Army
1949-02-XX 1954-03-XX Commandant of the Airborne School
1954-03-XX 1954-10-27 Head of the Military Department, Moscow Zootechnical Institute of Horse Breeding
1954-10-27 Retired
Picture source: Courtesy of Mikhail Eremenko