| | Dmitry Ustinov -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | Dimitri Fyodorovich Ustinov (October 17, 1908–December 20, 1984) was Defense Minister of the (A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia; established in 1922; included Russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (Ukraine and Byelorussia an others); officially dissolved 31 December 1991) Soviet Union from 1976 until his death. |
 | | He had previously been head of the defense industry since (Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953)) Stalin appointed him People's Commissar of Armaments in 1941. |
 | | On his death the city of Izhevsk was briefly renamed for him, but under (Soviet statesman whose foreign policy brought an end to the Cold War and whose domestic policy introduced major reforms (born in 1931)) Mikhail Gorbachev cities that had been renamed for recent Soviet leaders reverted to their former names. |
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