Stepan Andrianovich Kalinin (russian: Степа́н Андриа́нович Кали́нин; 28 December 1890 – 11 September 1975) was a

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army commander. He fought in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I before going over to the

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during the subsequent civil war. He was promoted to

Komkor (russian: комкор) is the abbreviation for Corps commander (russian: командир корпуса, komandir korpusa; ), and was a military rank in the Soviet Armed Forces of the USSR in the period from 1935 to 1940. It was also the d ...

(corps commander) in 1938. He was a member of the

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. He was a recipient of the

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and the

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. He retired at the age of 56.

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Выступление С. А. Калинина на совещании высшего командного состава Красной Армии в декабре 1940 года

* Коллектив авторов. «Великая Отечественная. Командармы. Военный биографический словарь» — М.; Жуковский: Кучково поле, 2005. * Сборник. Командный и начальствующий состав Красной Армии в 1940—1941 гг. Структура и кадры центрального аппарата НКО СССР, военных округов и общевойсковых армий. Документы и материалы. М.;СПб.:Летний сад, 2005.
Калинин Степан Андрианович
* Фото http://voenspez.ru/index.php?topic=11202.20

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kalinin, Stepan 1890 births 1975 deaths People from Yegoryevsky District, Moscow Oblast People from Bogorodsky Uyezd Communist Party of the Soviet Union members First convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Soviet lieutenant generals Russian military personnel of World War I Soviet military personnel of the Russian Civil War Soviet military personnel of World War II Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner Gulag detainees Soviet rehabilitations