{{about|the Soviet military officer|the Russian painter|Ivan Bogdanov (painter)}} {{More citations needed|date=March 2017}} {{infobox military person |name = Ivan Aleksandrovich Bogdanov |image=Ivan Bogdanov c. 1940.jpg |birth_date = 6 November 1897 |death_date = {{dda|1942|7|22|1897|11|6|df=y}} |birth_place = Yablonovka village, Tambovsky Uyezd, Tambov Governorate, Russian Empire |death_place = Kalinin, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |allegiance = Russian Empire<br>Soviet Union |branch = Imperial Russian Army<br>Soviet Red Army |service_years = 1916–1917 {{flag|Russian Empire}}<br>1918–1942 23px |rank = Lieutenant general |commands = {{plainlist| *Reserve Front *39th Army *43rd Army }} |battles = World War I<br>Russian Civil War<br>World War II |awards = {{plainlist| *Order of Lenin *Order of the Red Banner *Order of the Red Star }} }} '''Ivan Aleksandrovich Bogdanov''' ({{langx|ru|Ива́н Алекса́ндрович Богда́нов}}; 6 November 1897 – 22 July 1942) was a Soviet lieutenant-general and army commander.
He fought in World War I in the Imperial Russian Army before going over to the Bolsheviks.
In World War II, he commanded the Reserve Front, 43rd Army and 39th Army. He was killed in action on 22 July 1942 at the head of the 39th Army, which was surrounded during Operation Seydlitz. He was seriously wounded in the area of the village of Krapivni Kalininsky region, when he organized and led an attempted breakout. He was rushed to the hospital in Kalinin, but died of his wounds in the hospital on the evening of July 22. He was buried in Kalinin in a mass grave in Lenin Square.
He was a recipient of the Order of Lenin, the Order of the Red Banner and the Order of the Red Star.
==Honours and awards==
{| |- |60px |Order of the Red Banner |- |60px |Order of Lenin |- |60px |Order of the Red Star |- |60px |Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army" |- |40px |Honorary worker of the Cheka-GPU (XV) |- |}
==Bibliography== * {{Cite book|title=Великая Отечественная. Командармы. Военный биографический словарь|publisher=Kuchkovo Pole|year=2005|isbn=5860901135|editor-last=Vozhakin|editor-first=Mikhail Georgievich|location=Moscow|pages=28–29|language=ru|trans-title=The Great Patriotic War: Army Commanders: Military Biographical Dictionary}} {{s-start}} {{s-mil}} {{s-bef|before=Dmitry Seleznev}} {{s-ttl|title=Commander of the 43rd Army|years=2-5 September 1941}} {{s-aft|after=Pyotr Sobennikov}} {{s-bef|before=new office}} {{s-ttl|title=Commander of the 39th Army|years=November–December 1941}} {{s-aft|after=Ivan Maslennikov}} {{s-bef|before=Ivan Maslennikov}} {{s-ttl|title=Commander of the 39th Army|years=18-22 July 1942}} {{s-aft|after=Alexey Ivanovich Zygin}}
{{s-end}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Bogdanov, Ivan}} Category:1897 births Category:1942 deaths Category:People from Tambovsky Uyezd Category:Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Category:First convocation members of the Soviet of the Union Category:Lieutenant generals of the Soviet Union Category:Frunze Military Academy alumni Category:Russian military personnel of World War I Category:Soviet military personnel of the Russian Civil War Category:Soviet military personnel killed in World War II Category:Recipients of the Order of Lenin Category:Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner Category:Recipients of the Order of the Red Star