Ivan Bogdanov

Ivan Aleksandrovich Bogdanov (6 November 1897 – 22 July 1942) was a Soviet lieutenant-general and army commander.

Ivan Aleksandrovich Bogdanov
Born6 November 1897
Yablonovka village, Tambovsky Uyezd, Tambov Governorate, Russian Empire
Died22 July 1942(1942-07-22) (aged 44)
Kalinin, Soviet Union
AllegianceRussian Empire
Soviet Union
Service/branchImperial Russian Army
Soviet Red Army
Years of service1916–1917  Russian Empire
1918–1942
RankLieutenant general
Commands held
Battles/warsWorld War I
Russian Civil War
World War II
Awards

He fought in World War I in the Imperial Russian Army before going over to the Bolsheviks.

In World War II, he commanded the Reserve Front, 43rd Army and 39th Army. He was killed in action on 22 July 1942 at the head of the 39th Army, which was surrounded during Operation Seydlitz. He was seriously wounded in the area of the village of Krapivni Kalininsky region, when he organized and led an attempted breakout. He was rushed to the hospital in Kalinin, but died of his wounds in the hospital on the evening of July 22. He was buried in Kalinin in a mass grave in Lenin Square.

He was a recipient of the Order of Lenin, the Order of the Red Banner and the Order of the Red Star.

Honours and awards

Order of the Red Banner
Order of Lenin
Order of the Red Star
Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army"
Honorary worker of the Cheka-GPU (XV)


Bibliography

  • Vozhakin, Mikhail Georgievich, ed. (2005). Великая Отечественная. Командармы. Военный биографический словарь [The Great Patriotic War: Army Commanders: Military Biographical Dictionary] (in Russian). Moscow: Kuchkovo Pole. pp. 28–29. ISBN 5860901135.
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