Ivan Fedyuninsky

Ivan Ivanovich Fedyuninsky was a Soviet military leader and Hero of the Soviet Union .

Fedyuninsky was born into a peasant family near Tugulym in the Urals. He finished the village school in 1913 and was apprenticed to a painter and decorator. He joined the Red Army in 1919. He fought on the Western Front in the Russian Civil war and was wounded twice. He studied at the Vladivostok Infantry School between 192324 and was appointed to an infantry regiment. He served in the Russian Far East between 1919 and 1940 fighting in the SinoSoviet conflict and as the comamnder of the 24th Motorized Regiment in the Battle of Khalkhin Gol, where he won the Hero of the Soviet Union for his valour. He was promoted to divisional commander in 1940, taking over the 82nd Rifle Division, later motorised rifle division.

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