Ivan Maslennikov

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Soviet general

PoliticiansLived 1900 to 1954 · aged 53

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Ivan Ivanovich Maslennikov, General of the Army, was a Soviet military and NKVD commander of Army and Front level during World War II.

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Order of Lenin

Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Order of the Red Banner

Hero of the Soviet Union

Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army"

Order of Suvorov, 1st class

Order of Kutuzov, 1st class

Order of the Red Star

Medal "For the Defence of Leningrad"

Medal "For the Defence of the Caucasus"

Medal "For the Victory over Japan"

Jubilee Medal "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy"

Order of the Red Banner

Medal "For the Victory over Japan" of Mongolia

Honorary Officer of the State Security

Connected to Ivan 6

Maksim PurkayevAlso won Medal "For the Victory over Japan" of Mongolia

Gevork VartanianAlso won Honorary Officer of the State Security

Sergei KruglovAlso won Medal "For the Victory over Japan"

Vladimir DekanozovAlso won Honorary Officer of the State Security

Koča PopovićAlso won Order of Suvorov, 1st class

Dmitri ShepilovAlso won Order of Kutuzov, 1st class

About this person

Ivan Ivanovich Maslennikov, General of the Army, was a Soviet military and NKVD commander of Army and Front level during World War II. A career Red Army officer, Maslennikov was transferred to NKVD system in 1928, and remained there until the German invasion of 1941, progressing from a counter-guerrilla squadron commander to the chief of NKVD troops. After a mixed career in field troops of World War II and three post-war years, Maslennikov returned to NKVD in 1948 and stayed there, despite political changes, until his suicide in 1954.