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Dmitry Fedorovich Ustinov

Soviet statesman
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Dmitry Fedorovich Ustinov (born Oct. 17 [Oct. 30, New Style], 1908, Samara, Russia—died Dec. 20, 1984, Moscow) was a Soviet military and political figure who was minister of defense from 1976 to 1984. An engineer by profession, Ustinov graduated in 1934 from the Military Institute of Mechanics in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) and worked first as a construction engineer, then as director of a Leningrad armament factory. In 1941 Stalin appointed Ustinov people’s commissar of...

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