Ivan Rubanyuk
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Drahichyn District, Brest Region, Russian Empire
Moscow, Soviet Union
Soviet Union
Soviet Red Army
Ivan Andreyevich Rubanyuk | |
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 Rubanyuk, 1944 | |
| Born | 29 August 1896 Drahichyn District, Brest Region, Russian Empire |
| Died | 3 October 1959 (aged 63) Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Allegiance | Russian Empire Soviet Union |
| Service | Imperial Russian Army Soviet Red Army |
| Years of service | 1915–1917 (Russian Empire) 1918–1937, 1940–1959 (Soviet Union) |
| Rank | Colonel general |
| Commands | 11th Rifle Corps 10th Guards Rifle Corps 14th Army 25th Army |
| Battles / wars | World War I Russian Civil War World War II |
Ivan Andreyevich Rubanyuk (Russian: Иван Андреевич Рубанюк; 29 August 1896 – 3 October 1959) was a Soviet colonel general who rose to field army command during the Cold War.
Ivan Andreyevich Rubanyuk was born on 29 August 1896 in the village of Ognarovo, Antopolsky volost, Kobrinsky Uyezd, Grodno Governorate. His ethnicity was listed in documents during his early service period as Lithuanian, but in later documents changed to Ukrainian. During World War I, he entered the Imperial Russian Army as a one-year volunteer on 15 May 1915 and was sent to the Life Guards Jager Regiment. He graduated from the training detachment of the regiment in 1916 and served as a regimental clark with the rank of yefreytor and junior unter-ofitser. With the regiment, he fought on the Southwestern Front, participating in the Brusilov offensive. After demobilization in December 1917 he went to Kaluga, where he worked in the militsiya of the Kaluga Uyezd Rationing Committee.[1]
During the Russian Civil War, Rubanyuk was conscripted into the Red Army on 20 July 1918 and sent to the newly formed 21st Rifle Regiment of the 1st Kaluga Brigade. Here he continued his service as a platoon commander and assistant regimental adjutant. In the latter he fought on the Southern Front against the Armed Forces of South Russia between April and November 1919. From April 1920 he served as an assistant company commander in the 1st Separate Battalion of the Kharkov Military District, and from October of that year was adjutant of the 3rd Ukrainian Reserve Regiment in the cities of Kharkov and Sumy. After the disbandment of the regiment in February 1921 he was transferred to the ChON, then served as adjutant in the 2nd Kharkov Territorial Regiment and the 8th Special Purpose Regiment. From October 1921 he commanded a company in the 4th Special Purpose Regiment, in which he fought in battles against the anti-Soviet forces of Popov in the area of Belopolye.[1]
Interwar period
From February 1922 Rubanyuk served as adjutant of the 7th Regiment of the VChK, and from June as acting head clerk of the operational section of a separate special purpose company. From January 1923 he commanded the Separate Kupyansk Special Purposes Company in the Kharkov Military District. From May he served as assistant chief of staff of the ChON in Kharkov Governorate, and from December as assistant commander of a separate ChON battalion. From April to June 1924 he completed the courses for senior and higher command personnel in Kharkov. After graduation he was appointed assistant battalion commander in the 296th Rifle Regiment of the 99th Rifle Division at Cherkassy, and from August served as assistant head of the 1st section of the division staff. In June 1925 he transferred to the 100th Rifle Division at Belaya Tserkov, serving as a senior assistant chief of the 1st section of the division staff. From October 1927 to June 1928 he completed the commanders' advanced training course in Moscow.[1]
From May to October 1929 he commanded a battalion of the 299th Rifle Regiment, then returned to his former position in the division staff, and from May to December 1931 temporarily served as division chief of staff. From 11 June 1934 he commanded the 7th Rifle Regiment of the 3rd Rifle Division. During the Great Purge, in May 1937 then-Major Rubanyuk was arrested, removed from the Red Army on 31 May 1937 and until 16 July 1940 under "investigation" by the NKVD. After being freed he was restored to the Red Army, being assigned as a commander of a cadet battalion at the Odessa Infantry School in October.[1]