Ivan Vladimirovich Tyulenev was a Soviet military commander, one of the first to be promoted Soviet General of the Army in 1940.

Biography

Tyulenvev was born into a soldier's family in the Simbirsk Governorate (now Ulyanovsk Oblast

Ulyanovsk Oblast

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) settlement of Shatrashany. He worked in factories and as a Caspian Sea

Caspian Sea

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 fisherman before being drafted into the Imperial Russian Army

Imperial Russian Army

The Imperial Russian Army was the land armed force of the Russian Empire, active from around 1721 to the Russian Revolution of 1917. In the early 1850s, the Russian army consisted of around 938,731 regular soldiers and 245,850 irregulars . Until the time of military reform of Dmitry Milyutin in...

 in 1913. During World War

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 I he fought with the Kargopolsky dragoons in Congress Poland

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 and was awarded the Order of St George for his courage.

Tyulenvev joined the Red Army after the revolution and served during the Russian Civil war with the 1st Cavalry Army. He also took part in suppressing the Kronstadt Rebellion

Kronstadt rebellion

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 and in the Polish Soviet War. In 1939 he commanded the 12th Army

12th Army (Soviet Union)

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 during the Soviet invasion of Poland

Soviet invasion of Poland

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. He was promoted to General of the Army in 1940.

At the outbreak of the German-Soviet War, he was in charge of the Moscow Military District. In the first three months of the war, Tyulenev commanded the Southern Front. During the rest of the war, he was in command of the Transcaucasian Military District

Transcaucasian Military District

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 and Transcaucasian Front

Transcaucasian Front

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. Tyulenev was the author of several books of reminiscences, including Soviet Cavalry Fighting for the Fatherland (1957) and Through Three Wars (1972).