Yevgeny Filippovich Ivanovsky (; 7 March 1918 – 22 November 1991) was a Soviet Army General who served in numerous high commands following the

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, including the command of the

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from 1968 to 1972, command of the

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from 20 July 1972 to 25 November 1980. On 3 November 1972, following the decision of the

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, he was promoted to the rank of the Army General. His next command was

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from December 1980 to February 1985, when he was promoted to the position of the Commander in Chief of the Soviet Ground Forces. In 1989 he became the member of the inspectorate of the Ministry of the Defense of the USSR. In the years 1971–1989 he was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He also served 3 terms as a deputy in the

. Ivanovsky spent his last years living in

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, where he died on 22 November 1991. He was buried at

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. He has published a memoir.Ивановский Евгений Филиппович, Атаку начинали танкисты, Воениздат, 1984

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