Ivan Peresypkin

Ivan Peresypkin
Иван Пересыпкин
Minister of Communications of the Soviet Union
In office
10 May 1939 – 20 July 1944
Prime MinisterJoseph Stalin
Preceded byMatvei Berman
Succeeded byKonstantin Sergeychuk
Personal details
Born(1904-06-05)5 June 1904
Gorlivka, Bakhmut uezd, Russian Empire
Died12 October 1978(1978-10-12) (aged 74)
Moscow, Soviet Union
Resting placeNovodevichye Cemetery
PartyCPSU
Military service
AllegianceSoviet Union
Branch/serviceRed Army
RankMarshal of Signal Troops
Unit Signal Troops
CommandsSignal Troops
Battles/warsRussian Civil War
Great Patriotic War

Ivan Terentyevich Peresypkin (Russian: Ива́н Тере́нтьевич Пересы́пкин; June 5, 1904 – October 12, 1978) was a Soviet General, statesman and wartime leader.

Biography

He was born in the city of Horlivka, Bakhmut uezd (now in the Donetsk region) to a mercury mine worker. Soon after his birth, he was taken to live with relatives in the village of Protasovo in the Maloarkhangelsky Uyezd of the Oryol Governorate. In 1916, he completed a four-year public school. From 1916, he worked at the Novomoskovsk mine in the Donbass (in the city of Horlivka).

In April 1919, he joined the Red Army and during the Russian Civil War he fought in the Southern Front. In 1920, he was discharged into the reserves as a minor and worked in the railway police, a mine, and a factory.

In 1923, he returned to the Red Army. In 1924, he graduated from the Military-Political School of the Kiev Military District. He became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1925. From 1925, he served in the communications squadron of the 1st Cavalry Division: squadron political instructor, squadron military commissar, and commander of a separate communications squadron. In 1932, he was sent to study at the academy. In 1937, he graduated from the Military Electrical Engineering Academy of the Red Army. That same year, he was appointed military commissar of the Red Army Communications Research Institute. From January 1938, he became military commissar of the Red Army Communications Directorate, at which time he was promoted to colonel. From March 1939, he became deputy head of the Red Army Communications Directorate under Ivan Naidyonov [ru].

He was the People's Commissar of Communications of the USSR from May 1939 to July 1944. On 23 July 1941, he was appointed Chief of Red Army Signals Forces, in addition.[1] He was also Deputy People's Commissar of Defence of the USSR. From November 1944, he was chief of the Main Communication Directorate of the Red Army and Marshal of the signal troops.[2] During the war, he displayed talent for military leadership. He did a great amount of work ensuring stable communications between the Supreme Command Headquarters, the General Staff, and the combat army. He made a tangible contribution to the development and manufacture of various communications devices and helped supply them to the front.[3][4][5][6] He was a member of the second convocation of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.

Awards

He was awarded many orders and medals over the course of his career:

References

  1. ^ David M. Glantz, Colossus Reborn, University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 2005, pp. 345.
  2. ^ Указ Президиума Верховного Совета СССР «О присвоении генерал-полковнику войск связи Пересыпкину И. Т. военного звания маршала войск связи» от 21 февраля 1944 года // Ведомости Верховного Совета Союза Советских Социалистических Республик : газета. — 1944. — 29 февраля (№ 12 (272)). — С. 1
  3. ^ "Ivan Peresypkin".
  4. ^ "0201680 - IVAN TERENTYEVICH PERESYPKIN. Ivan Terentyevich Peresypkin, *1904-1978+, military leader, chief of the Main Communication Directorate of the Red Army, Marshal of Signals, Soviet Union, portrait after a painting by N.W. Rshevski, ullstein bild ID 00958408".
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  6. ^ М. И. Вострышев "Москва сталинская. Большая иллюстрированная летопись /1941 год
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