Dmitry Ustinov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Dmitry Ustinov

Soviet military commander and politician

Date of Birth: 17-Oct-1908

Place of Birth: Samara, Samara Oblast, Russia

Date of Death: 20-Dec-1984

Profession: writer, engineer, politician, military officer

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Dmitry Ustinov

  • Dmitriy Fyodorovich Ustinov (Russian: ??????? ????????? ???????; 30 October 1908 – 20 December 1984) was a Marshal of the Soviet Union and Soviet politician during the Cold War.
  • He served as a Central Committee secretary in charge of the Soviet military–industrial complex from 1965 to 1976 and as Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union from 1976 until his death in 1984.
  • Ustinov was born in the city of Samara to a Russian working-class family in 1908.
  • Upon reaching adulthood, he joined the Communist Party in 1927 before pursuing a career in engineering.
  • After graduating from the Institute of Military Mechanical Engineering in 1934, he became a construction engineer at the Leningrad Artillery Marine Research Institute.
  • By 1937, he transferred to the Bolshevik "Arms" Factory where he ultimately rose to become the director.
  • While serving as People's Commissar of Armaments during World War II, he achieved distinction within the party's ranks by successfully overseeing the evacuation of Leningrad's industries to the Ural Mountains, a feat for which he was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labour.
  • At the war's end, he was entrusted with seizing raw materials, scientists and research left over from Germany's missile programme.
  • Under Leonid Brezhnev's leadership, Ustinov joined the Central Committee Secretariat and rose to become a candidate member of the Politburo by 1965.
  • Following his rise to the central party apparatus, he was given the task of administering the Soviet Union's defense industry and its armed forces.
  • By 1976, he succeeded Andrei Grechko as Minister of Defense and received the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union.
  • As Brezhnev's health deteriorated during the last years of his leadership, Ustinov formed a troika alongside Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and KGB Chairman Yuri Andropov whose hardline attitudes dominated Soviet policy until Mikhail Gorbachev's rise to power.

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