Pyotr Georgievich Lushev was an Army General of the Soviet Army during the Cold War who was the last Supreme Commander of the Unified Armed Forces of the Warsaw Treaty Organization.
11 Facts About Pyotr Lushev
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Pyotr Georgievich Lushev was born into a peasant family in the village Poboishche Emetsky district of the Arkhangelsk province, Russia.
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Pyotr Lushev graduated from secondary school No 95 in Arkhangelsk.
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Immediately after the start of the Great Patriotic War in August 1941, Pyotr Lushev was drafted into the Red Army.
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Pyotr Lushev graduated from the courses as a junior lieutenant.
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Pyotr Lushev entered active service in the army in June 1942.
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Pyotr Lushev commanded an infantry platoon, and from 1944 a rifle company.
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Pyotr Lushev participated to the Sinyavin offensive operation in 1942, during which he was wounded, the Leningrad-Novgorod operation, the Baltic operation, and the blockade of the Courland pocket.
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Pyotr Lushev served as chief of staff of a tank battalion, and then later a commander of a tank battalion.
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Pyotr Lushev was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1951.
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In 1992 he retired, living in Moscow before his death on 23 March 1997; Pyotr Lushev is buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery.