Nikolai Demyanovich Psurtsev (4 February 1900 – 9 February 1980) was a Soviet statesman and military leader, Colonel General of the Communication Troops, Minister of Communications of the Soviet Union.

Biography

Born in Kiev into a Russian peasant family. From September 1915, he was an apprentice of a telegraph operator, then a telegraph operator at the Ponyri Station of the Kursk Railway, Kursk Station. *February – December 1918 – Red Army soldier of

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's detachment, Ukrainian Front. *December 1918 – July 1920 – Telegraph operator of the Headquarters of the 9th Army, Commissar of the Telegraph of the Army. *July 1920 – January 1921 – Communications Commissioner of the 12th Army. *January – June 1921 – Commissioner of the Communications Department of the Headquarters of

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and

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. *June – November 1921 – Commissar of the 6th Communication Regiment. *From November 1921, he was a student of the Higher Military School of Communications of the Red Army. *From July 1924 – Deputy Chief of Communications of the Siberian Military District. *Since November 1927 – Commander and commissar of the 10th Communications Regiment. *1930–1934 – Student of the Military Electrotechnical Academy of Communications. *From February 1935 – Deputy Head of the Combat Training Department of the Communications Directorate of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. *From January 1936, he was the Head of the Communications Center of the People's Commissariat of Defense of the Soviet Union. *Since May 1937 – Head of the Department of Long–distance Telephone and Telegraph Communications of the People's Commissariat of Communications of the Soviet Union. *Since March 1938 – Authorized by the People's Commissariat of Communications of the Soviet Union for the Far Eastern Territory. *From April 1939 – Head of the Training Department of the Military Electrotechnical Academy of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. *From December 1939 – Chief of Communications of the North–Western Front. *Since April 1940 – Head of the Training Department of the Military Electrotechnical Academy of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. *From June 1940 – Deputy Head of the Communications Department of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. *From July 1941 – Head of the Communications Department of the Western Front. *From February 1944 – First Deputy Head of the Main Directorate of Communications of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. *From April 1946 – Chief of Communications of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union. *November 1947 – March 1948 – First Deputy Minister of Communications of the Soviet Union. *March 1948 – September 1975 – Minister of Communications of the Soviet Union. *Since September 1975, he has been a personal pensioner of union significance. Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, 4–9 convocations (1954–1979). Candidate member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1961–1976,

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of the Communication Troops (1945). He died on February 9, 1980, in

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. Buried at the

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Remembrance

*The Novosibirsk Electrotechnical Institute of Communications, the Kursk Telegraph and the Higher School for Training Communications Workers in

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) are named after Nikolai Psurtsev. *In 2000, a Russian

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dedicated to Psurtsev was issued.

Awards

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(February 3, 1975); *5

Orders of Lenin The Order of Lenin (, ) was an award named after Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the October Revolution. It was established by the Central Executive Committee on 6 April 1930. The order was the highest civilian decoration bestowed by the Soviet ...

(February 21, 1945; February 3, 1960; July 18, 1966; February 3, 1970; February 3, 1975); *

Order of the October Revolution The Order of the October Revolution (, ''Orden Oktyabr'skoy Revolyutsii'') was instituted on 31 October 1967, in time for the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution. It was conferred upon individuals or groups for services furthering communis ...

(February 1, 1980); *4

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(March 21, 1940; January 2, 1942; November 3, 1944; June 24, 1948); *

Order of Kutuzov The Order of Kutuzov ( ''orden Kutuzova'') is a military decoration of the Russian Federation named after famous Russian Field Marshal Mikhail Kutuzov, Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov (1745–1813). The Order was established during World War II t ...

, 1st Class (September 8, 1945); *

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, 2nd Class (April 9, 1943); *

, 2nd Class (September 28, 1943); *Medals.

Foreign awards

*Knight–Commander of the

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, 1944).Presentation of British Orders and Medals / Krasnaya Zvezda Newspaper – May 11, 1944 – No. 111 (5791)

References

Sources

Nikolay Demyanovich Psurtsev
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Big Philatelic Dictionary
/ Nikolay Vladyets, Leonid Ilyichev, Joseph Levitas ... nd Others Under the General Editorship of Nikolai Vladinets and Vadim Yakobs – Moscow: Radio and Communications, 1988 – Page 239 – 40,000 Copies –

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