Today, October 17, 2021, it turns 113 years since the birth of the Soviet military leader and the statesman, Marshal Soviet Union, twice the hero of socialist labor, Hero of the Soviet Union Dmitry Fedorovich Ustinova.
was born in Samara, in the family family. In 1922, D.F. Ustinov entered a volunteer in the Red Army, and after demobilization graduated from 1927 to Vottheknikov and in 1934 – Leningrad Military-Mechanical Institute.
From 1934 – Engineer at the Artillery Sea Research Institute, head of the Bureau of Operation and Experienced Work, Deputy Chief Designer, Director of the Bolshevik plant. Since 1941 – the People’s Commissar of the USSR, made a great contribution to the deployment of the production of artillery and small armament, in solving complex scientific and technical problems to create its new samples.
since 1946 D.F. Ustinov – Minister of Arms, since 1953 – Minister of Defense Industry of the USSR. In 1957, he was appointed deputy, and in 1963 – First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, Chairman of the Supreme Council of the USSR national economy. Successfully ensured the implementation of the Government’s assignments to create and master modern means of armed struggle and the development of rocket technology.
In April 1976, DF Austinov was appointed Minister of Defense of the USSR. In 1976, Ustinov was awarded the title of Marshal Soviet Union. Made a great contribution to the strengthening of the country’s defense capability, an increase in the combat power of the types of armed forces and labor of the troops, completed the creation of a system of strategic management of the armed forces and their groups with the implementation of the latest systems and automated control systems.
His merit is the creation in the countries of the Warsaw contract of its own military industry and the equipment of allied armies with the latest military equipment and weapons. Much attention to Dmitry Fedorovich paid the military-historical science and history of weapons and military equipment as its component.
D.F. Ustinov – Hero of the Soviet Union and twice Hero of Socialist Labor, was awarded 11 by the orders of Lenin, the Order of Suvorov 1st Art., The Order of Kutuzov 1st Art., USSR medals, orders and medals of foreign states. Laureate of the Lenin and Two State Prizes of the USSR.