serviceyears branch death_date allegiance nationality birth_date term_end commands death_place battles term_start rank name citizenship predecessor birth_place awards party office successor article_title
1930-1938 , 1943-1946 , 1962 -- 1985 red army 15 september 1985 soviet union russian 19 may 1908 30 25 august 1951 13 august 1955 june 1962 27 november 1960 11 march 1953 main political directorate of the soviet army and navy moscow , soviet union world war ii 27 9 january 1950 march 1953 november 1960 14 august 1955 26 august 1951 army general alexei yepishev soviet ivan markov zamchevsky leonid melnikov serafim estafeev alexei kirichenko vasily astrakhan , russian empire hero -rrb- order of the october revolution order of the red of banner -lrb- 4 -rrb- order of bogdan khmelnitsky , 1st soviet class order of the red banner of labor order of union the patriotic war , 1st class -lrb- 2 -rrb- order order of the red star -lrb- 3 -rrb- order for service of to the homeland in the armed forces of the ussr lenin , 3rd class order of sükhbaatar -lrb- 2 -rrb- order -lrb- of the white lion -lrb- 1 -rrb- 3 communist party of the soviet union ambassador republic of yugoslavia ambassador of the soviet union to the of people 's republic of romania deputy minister of state security the for personnel matters first secretary of the odessa regional committee soviet of the communist party of ukraine union to the socialist federal alexander naydek puzanov ivan zhegalin pyotr kondakov vasily markov leontii alexei yepishev

alexei yepishev

alexei alexeevich yepishev , also spelled epishev -lrb- russian : '' Алексей Алексеевич Епишев '' ; - september 15 , 1985 -rrb- was a soviet political officer , politician and diplomat .
he served as the chief of the main political directorate of the soviet army and navy from 1962 to 1985 .
