Ivan Vasilyevich Tutarinov (
Russian
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: Иван Васильевич Тутаринов; 19 June 1904 – 19 June 1978) was a
Red Army
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colonel general
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who commanded the
Soviet airborne
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from 1959 to 1961. Tutarinov fought in
World War II
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as the commander of the
12th Kuban Cossack Cavalry Division before being wounded in July 1944.
Early life
Tutarinov was born on 19 June 1904 in the village of Krasny Yar in the
Astrakhan Governorate
Astrakhan Governorate () was an administrative-territorial unit ('' guberniya'') of the Russian Empire, the Russian Republic, and the Russian SFSR, which existed from 1717 to 1929.
It was created from separating the southwestern part of Kazan Go ...
. He was an
Astrakhan Cossack. Before joining the
Red Army
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in September 1923, Tutarinov worked in the local
Cheka
The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission ( rus, Всероссийская чрезвычайная комиссия, r=Vserossiyskaya chrezvychaynaya komissiya, p=fsʲɪrɐˈsʲijskəjə tɕrʲɪzvɨˈtɕæjnəjə kɐˈmʲisʲɪjə, links=yes), ...
, the local
Politburo
A politburo () or political bureau is the highest organ of the central committee in communist parties. The term is also sometimes used to refer to similar organs in socialist and Islamist parties, such as the UK Labour Party's NEC or the Poli ...
, the
Fisheries Trust and the
Komsomol
The All-Union Leninist Young Communist League, usually known as Komsomol, was a political youth organization in the Soviet Union. It is sometimes described as the youth division of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), although it w ...
district committees.
Interwar
In the Red Army, he was assigned to the 3rd Samara Cavalry School. When that was disbanded in September 1924, Tutarinov was reassigned to the 2nd Borisoglebsk-Leningrad Cavalry School. After graduating in September 1926, he was posted to the 63rd Cavalry Regiment of the 1st Special Cavalry Brigade in
Moscow
Moscow is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, standing on the Moskva (river), Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population estimated at over 13 million residents with ...
. In this regiment, he became a platoon commander, an acting squadron commander and the regimental acting assistant chief of staff.
Tutarinov graduated from the
Novocherkassk
Novocherkassk () is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city in Rostov Oblast, Russia, located near the confluence of the Tuzlov and Aksay Rivers, the latter a distributary of the Don (river), Don River. Novocherkassk is best known as the ...
cavalry commander refresher courses in June 1931, after which he became a squadron commander in the regiment. In October 1932, he became the assistant to the regimental chief of staff. In November 1936, Tutarinov graduated from the
Frunze Military Academy
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and was appointed chief of the
2nd Cavalry Division headquarters. In November 1937, he became chief of staff of the division's 61st Cavalry Regiment. From January to July 1939, he temporarily commanded a regiment, after which he became chief of a regiment in the 36th Cavalry Division, which he led during the
Soviet invasion of Poland
The Soviet invasion of Poland was a military conflict by the Soviet Union without a formal declaration of war. On 17 September 1939, the Soviet Union invaded Second Polish Republic, Poland from the east, 16 days after Nazi Germany invaded Polan ...
. In February 1940, he became chief of staff of the
36th Cavalry Division, with which he served in the
Winter War
The Winter War was a war between the Soviet Union and Finland. It began with a Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939, three months after the outbreak of World War II, and ended three and a half months later with the Moscow Peac ...
. In March, Tutarinov became the
14th Mechanized Corps' chief of staff.
World War II
Tutarinov fought in the initial attempt of
14th Mechanized Corps to recapture
Brest at the beginning of
Operation Barbarossa
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and was wounded. In September 1941, he became the commander of the
77th Cavalry Division. In January 1942, the division was transferred to the
14th Cavalry Corps in
Arkhangelsk Military District
The Arkhangelsk Military District () was a regional Military districts of the Soviet Union, military district of the Red Army which oversaw the North-Western part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. The district was formed in 1940 ...
. In April, the division was subordinated to the
2nd Shock Army
The 2nd Shock Army (), sometimes translated to English as 2nd Assault Army, was a field army of the Soviet Union during the Second World War. This type of formation was created in accordance with prewar doctrine that called for Shock Armies to ''o ...
and soon disbanded. In May, Tutarinov became the commander of the
12th Kuban Cossack Cavalry Division in the
North Caucasus Military District
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, charged with the defence of the
Taganrog Bay
Taganrog Bay (; ) is the northeastern arm of the Sea of Azov. It also may be perceived as a flooded estuary of the Don River.
Geography
The bay serves as a natural boundary between the Kuban coast line in Russia and the northern Azov littor ...
shore. In July, it participated in the
Armavir-Maikop Defensive Operation, where it covered the withdrawal of
18th Army. On 27 August, it became the
9th Guards Cossack Cavalry Division and Tutarinov was promoted to
Major general.
In September, the division was transferred to the
Transcaucasian Front
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The Transcaucasus Front ...
and fought in the
Nalckik-Ordzhonikidze Defensive Operation. In January 1943, the division fought in battles near
Rostov
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During the
Donbass Strategic Offensive, the division captured
Tokmak
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. In October, it became part of the
4th Ukrainian Front
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The front was first formed on 20 October 1943, by renaming the Southern Front and was involved in the Lower ...
and in November fought on the
Isthmus of Perekop
The Isthmus of Perekop, literally Isthmus of the Trench (; transliteration: ''Perekops'kyi pereshyiok''; ; transliteration: ''Perekopskiy peresheek,'' , ; ; transliteration: ''Taphros''), is the narrow, wide strip of land that connects the C ...
.
In March 1944, Tutarinov led the division in the
Bereznegovatoye–Snigirevka Offensive and the
Odessa Offensive
The Odessa Offensive Operation (Russian language, Russian: Одесская Наступательная Операция, Odesskaya Nastupatel'naya Operatsiya), known on the German side as the Defensive battle of the 6th Army between Bug and Dni ...
. At the end of May, the division became part of
Stavka
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In Imperial Russia ''Stavka'' referred to the administrat ...
reserves. At the beginning of June, the division was transferred to the
1st Belorussian Front
The 1st Belorussian Front (, ''Pervyy Belorusskiy front'', also romanized " Byelorussian"), known without a numeral as the Belorussian Front between October 1943 and February 1944, was a major formation of the Red Army during World War II, bein ...
, where it fought in
Operation Bagration
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. In July, Tutarinov was wounded and spent two months in convalescence. In September, he became the commander of the 2nd Cavalry School in
Tambov
Tambov ( , ; rus, Тамбов, p=tɐmˈbof) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and the administrative center of Tambov Oblast, Central Federal District, central Russia, at the confluence of the Tsna River (Moksha basin), Tsna ...
. In March 1945, Tutarinov became the chief of the combat training of Red Army cavalry staff.
Postwar
Tutarinov became the chief of the Combat Training department in April 1946. In July 1947, he became the deputy chief of staff of the cavalry. Afterwards, he studied at the
Voroshilov Military Academy of the USSR Army General Staff, from which he graduated in December 1951. Tutarinov was then appointed deputy chief of staff for the
Ural Military District
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. In March 1954, Tutarinov became the deputy chief of staff of the
Carpathian Military District
The Red Banner Carpathian Military District (, ) was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces during the Cold War and subsequently of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the early Post-Soviet period.
It was established on 3 May 1946 on the ...
. Tutarinov was transferred to become the chief of staff of the
Siberian Military District
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in November 1956. In December, he became the chief of staff of the
Southern Group of Forces
The Southern Group of Forces (YUGV) was a Soviet Armed Forces formation formed twice following the Second World War, most notably around the time of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
First Formation
On June 15, 1945, the 26th and 37th Armies (fr ...
and in April 1958 became the group's deputy commander. After the demotion of
Vasily Margelov
Vasily Filippovich Margelov (; ; – 4 March 1990) was a Red Army General of the army (USSR), General who was the commander of the Soviet Airborne Forces (VDV) from 1954 to 1959 and from 1961 to 1979. Margelov modernized the VDV and was a Hero o ...
, Tutarinov became the commander of the
Soviet airborne
The Soviet Airborne Forces or VDV (from ''Vozdushno-Parachuting, desantnye voyska SSSR'', Russian: Воздушно-десантные войска СССР, ВДВ; Air-landing Forces) was a military branch, separate troops branch of the Soviet ...
in March 1959. On 9 May 1961, Tutarinov was promoted to
Colonel general
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and was appointed commander of the
Urals Military District
The Ural Mountains ( ),; , ; , or simply the Urals, are a mountain range in Eurasia that runs north–south mostly through Russia, from the coast of the Arctic Ocean to the river Ural (river), Ural and northwestern Kazakhstan. in July. In 1962, Tutarinov was a deputy of the
Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
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. In September 1965, Tutarinov became a representative of the
Warsaw Pact Supreme Command to the
Hungarian People's Army
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, with which he coordinated parts of
Operation Danube
On 20–21 August 1968, the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic was jointly invaded by four fellow Warsaw Pact countries: the Soviet Union, the Polish People's Republic, the People's Republic of Bulgaria, and the Hungarian People's Republic. The in ...
. In September 1972, Tutarinov retired.
He died in
Moscow
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on 19 June 1978.
References
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1904 births
1978 deaths
Soviet Cossacks
People from Astrakhan Governorate
Soviet colonel generals
Soviet military personnel of World War II
Recipients of the Order of Lenin
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner
Recipients of the Order of Kutuzov, 2nd class
Recipients of the Order of Suvorov, 2nd class
Recipients of the Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky (Soviet Union), 2nd class
Frunze Military Academy alumni
Commanders of the Soviet Airborne Forces