The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Major-General Ignatii Vasilevich Prostiakov

Prostiakov, Ignatii Vasilevich

Major-General

* 29th of December 1896

† December 1976

(Игнатий Васильевич Простяков)

Promotions

1937-06-15 Kombrig
1937-12-31 Komdiv
1940-06-04 Major-General

Service

1932-12-XX 1937-06-XX Commanding Officer 15th Rifle Regiment
1932-12-XX 1937-06-XX Military Commissar, 15th Rifle Regiment
1937-06-XX 1937-12-XX Commanding Officer 43rd Rifle Division
1937-12-XX 1940-11-XX Commanding Officer IX Rifle Corps
1940-11-XX 1941-05-XX At disposal of the People's Commissar of Defence
1941-05-XX 1942-01-XX Senior Instructor at the Military Academy of the General Staff
1942-01-XX 1942-06-XX Attached to Main Formation & Staffing Directorate
1942-06-XX 1942-10-15 At disposal of Marshal K.E.Voroshilov
1942-10-15 1944-01-30 Commanding Officer 9th Guards Rifle Division
1944-01-31 1944-04-23 Commanding Officer VIII Guards Rifle Corps
1944-04-XX 1944-05-XX At disposal of the Military Council, 1st Baltic Front
1944-05-XX 1951-06-03 Senior Instructor at Frunze Military Academy
1951-06-03 1953-12-24 Head of General Tactics & Staff Service Department, Frunze Military Academy
1953-12-24 Transferred to the Polish Army
1953-12-24 1955-10-17 Deputy Commandant of the General Staff Academy, Polish Army
1955-10-17 Returned to the Soviet Army
1956-01-XX Retired
Picture source: Courtesy of Ilya Mukhin