Ivan Rogov

Ivan Vasilyevich Rogov (Russian: Иван Васильевич Рогов; 10 August 1899 – 5 December 1949) was an officer of the Soviet Navy. He worked in the navy's coastal defence branch and reached the rank of Colonel General.

Born in 1899, Rogov was an early recruit to the Soviet ranks, joining the Communist Party in 1918, and the Red Army in 1919. He saw action during the Russian Civil War, and soon became involved in military political work serving as the political instructor for various units. He remained in the armed forces after the civil war, serving as a military commissar in various military districts. He rose through the ranks, becoming a member of the Military Council of the Byelorussian Military District between 1938 and 1939. During this period he was involved in the organization of the mass army purges between 1936 and 1941 as part of the wider Great Purge. In 1939, he became member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, and also that month was appointed Chief of the Political Directorate of the Navy, and Deputy People's Commissar of the Navy. He participated in the Winter War with Finland between 1939 and 1940, and then the Second World War.

Rogov was Deputy People's Commissar of the Navy throughout the war, and from December 1943 until February 1944, concurrently a member of the Military Council of the Black Sea Fleet. He remained in naval and political work after the war, becoming a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union in 1946, and a member of the Military Council of the Baltic Military District from August 1946. He died suddenly on 5 December 1949 at the age of 50. Assessments of his service vary, but he received a number of honours and awards of his career, and several ships of the Soviet and Russian navies have been named after him.