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In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Fyodorovich and the family name is Ustinov.
Marshal of the Soviet Union
Dmitriy Ustinov
Дмитрий Устинов
Ustinov in 1978
Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union
In office 26 April 1976 – 20 December 1984
Premier
Alexei Kosygin Nikolai Tikhonov
Preceded by
Andrei Grechko
Succeeded by
Sergei Sokolov
First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union
In office 13 March 1963 – 26 March 1965
Premier
Nikita Khrushchev Alexei Kosygin
Preceded by
Alexei Kosygin
Succeeded by
Kirill Mazurov
Minister of the Defense Industry Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
In office 6 March 1953 – 14 December 1957
Premier
Georgy Malenkov Nikolai Bulganin
Preceded by
Position established
Succeeded by
Sergei Sverov
Personal details
Born
(1908-10-17)17 October 1908 Samara, Russian Empire
Died
20 December 1984(1984-12-20) (aged 76) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Resting place
Kremlin Wall Necropolis, Moscow
Nationality
Soviet
Political party
CPSU (1927–1984)
Profession
Mechanical engineer
Awards
See List
Military service
Allegiance
Soviet Union
Branch/service
Soviet Armed Forces
Years of service
1941–1984
Rank
Marshal of the Soviet Union (1976–1984)
Battles/wars
World War II Soviet–Afghan War
Central institution membership
1976–1984: Full member, 25th, 26th Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
1965—1976: Member, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, & 25th Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
1952–1984: Full member, 19th, 20th, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, & 26th Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Other offices held
1967–76: Central Committee Secretary of Administrative Organs
1965–76: Central Committee Secretary of the Defense Industry
1957—63: Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union
1957–63: Chairman of the Military-Industrial Commission
1941–53: People's Commissar of Armaments
1938–41: Director of the Leningrad Bolshevik Arms Factory
Dmitriy Fyodorovich Ustinov (Russian: Дмитрий Фёдорович Устинов; 30 October 1908 – 20 December 1984) was a Soviet politician and a Marshal of the Soviet Union 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. Thereafter, Ustinov's hardline attitudes towards the West and unreserved backing for the Soviet arms buildup would dominate his country's national security policy up until his death in 1984.
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troop movements before the Soviet army's intervention. On 25 December, DmitryUstinov issued a formal order, stating that "[t]he state frontier of the Democratic...
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