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Yevgeni F. Ivanovski (March 7, 1918 – September 22, 1991) served in numerous high commands following the

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, including the command of the

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from 1968 to 1972, command of the

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from 20. July 1972 to 25. November 1980. Nationality - Belarus. On 3 November 1972, following the decision of the

Supreme Soviet of the USSR The Supreme Soviet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ( rus, Верховный Совет Союза Советских Социалистических Республик, r=Verkhovnyy Sovet Soyuza Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respubl ...

, he was promoted to the rank of the Army General. His next command was

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from December 1980 to February 1985, when he was promoted to the position of the Commander in Chief of the

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. In 1989 he became the member of the inspectorate of the Ministry of the Defense of the USSR. In the years 1971–1989 he was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He also served 3 terms as a deputy in the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Yevgeni F. Ivanovski spent his last years living in

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, where he died on 22 September 1991. He was buried at

Novodevichy Cemetery Novodevichy Cemetery ( rus, Новоде́вичье кла́дбище, Novodevichye kladbishche) is a cemetery in Moscow. It lies next to the southern wall of the 16th-century Novodevichy Convent, which is the city's third most popular tourist ...

. He has published a memoir.Ивановский Евгений Филиппович, Атаку начинали танкисты, Воениздат, 1984

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