1. Ivan Fyodorovich Fedko was a Soviet Komandarm 1st rank and army commander.
24 Facts About Ivan Fedko
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Ivan Fedko was born in what is the Left-bank Ukraine.
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Ivan Fedko fought in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I before joining the Bolsheviks.
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Ivan Fedko was a 4-time recipient of the Order of the Red Banner and the Order of Lenin.
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Ivan Fedko was made a Komandarm 2nd rank in 1935 and a Komandarm 1st rank on February 20,1938.
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Ivan Fedko was a member of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR, deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the first convocation, member of the Military Council under the People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR.
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Ivan Fedko was baptized in the Eastern Orthodox faith, but later became an atheist.
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The family often changed their place of residence - they lived in Balti, in Soroca, in Comrat, where Ivan graduated from elementary school, then they lived in Chisinau, and from 1915 in Bendery.
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In Chisinau, Ivan Fedko, after studying for four years at the Alexander Vocational School, graduated with honors in May 1915, then went to work as a cabinetmaker at a local furniture factory.
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Ivan Fedko enlisted in the local infantry regiment in Bendery, then was transferred to the 42nd Infantry Reserve Regiment in Tiraspol, from there, in April 1916, he was sent to Oranienbaum.
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Ivan Fedko was then sent to the Southwestern Front, where he fought as a machine gunner as part of the 420th Infantry Serdobsky Regiment of the 105th Infantry Division of the 32nd Army Corps of the 8th Army.
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Ivan Fedko later served in the Ukrainized battalion of the 35th reserve infantry regiment in Feodosia, as a junior company officer, commanding a platoon.
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On March 1,1918, Ivan Fedko was demobilized from the "old" Russian army.
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In 1919, Ivan Fedko became a member of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Crimean Soviet Socialist Republic and deputy commander of the Crimean Army of the 14th Army of the Red Army until July 21,1919, when it was transformed into the Crimean Rifle Division.
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For military distinction, the division was awarded the Honorary Revolutionary Red Banner, and division commander Ivan Fedko was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of the RSFSR.
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Ivan Fedko was awarded a second Order of the Red Banner of the RSFSR for his leadership of the division and courage shown in the battles with the white army of Baron Wrangel in Northern Tavria.
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In November 1920 - April 1921 in Feodosia, a special department of the 46th rifle division of the Red Army, commanded by Ivan Fedko, participated in the mass executions of captured White Guards.
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In 1921, Ivan Fedko participated in the suppression of the anti-Soviet uprising in Kronstadt, commanding the 187th cadet rifle brigade, for which he was awarded the third Order of the Red Banner of the RSFSR.
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Ivan Fedko was awarded the fourth Order of the Red Banner of the RSFSR For distinction in suppressing the Tambov uprising in 1924.
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From November 1925, Ivan Fedko was the commander of the 2nd Rifle Corps.
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On May 1,1938, Ivan Fedko sent a letter to Stalin in which he continued to insist on his innocence.
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Ivan Fedko was immediately subjected to torture and on July 10 "confessed" that, in 1932, he was recruited to join a "military fascist conspiracy" by Ivan Belov.
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Ivan Fedko was included in the list prepared by Lavrentiy Beria and Andrey Vyshinsky dated February 15,1939 slated for execution.
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Monuments to Ivan Fedko were erected in Khmeliv, Sumy, and Romny.