Dmitriy Feodorovich Ustinov (Russian: Дми́трий Фёдорович Усти́нов; October 30, 1908 – December 20, 1984) was Minister of Defense of the Soviet Union from 1976 until his death.
Dimitry Feodorovich Ustinov was born in Samara to a working-class family. During the civil war, when hunger became intolerable, his sick father went to Samarkand, leaving Fyodor as head of the family. Shortly after that, in 1922, his father died. In 1923, together with his ...
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Dmitriy Feodorovich Ustinov (Russian: Дми́трий Фёдорович Усти́нов; October 30, 1908 – December 20, 1984) was Minister of Defense of the Soviet Union from 1976 until his death.
Dimitry Feodorovich Ustinov was born in Samara to a working-class family. During the civil war, when hunger became intolerable, his sick father went to Samarkand, leaving Fyodor as head of the family. Shortly after that, in 1922, his father died. In 1923, together with his mother, Yevrosinya Martinovna, he moved to the city of Makarev (near Ivanovo-Voznesensk) where he worked as a fitter in a paper mill. Shortly after that, in 1925, his mother died.
Ustinov joined the communist party in 1927. In 1929, he started training at the Faculty of Mechanics in the Polytechnic Institute of Ivanovo-Voznesensk. Afterward, Ustinov was transferred to the Moscow Bauman Higher Technical School. Then, on March 1932, he entered the Institute of Military Mechanical Engineering in Leningrad from where he graduated in 1934....
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