Terentii Shtykov
| Terentii Fomich Shtykov | |
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| 1st Ambassador of the Soviet Union to North Korea | |
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In office 10 October 1948 – 13 December 1950 |
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| Ambassador of the Soviet Union to Hungary | |
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In office 29 May 1959 – 5 July 1960 |
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| Preceded by | Yevgeni Gromov |
| Succeeded by | Vladimir Ustinov |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 28 February [O.S. 13 March] 1907 Liubki, Russian Empire (now Haradok Raion, Vitebsk, Belarus) |
| Died | 25 October 1964 (aged 57) Leningrad |
| Political party |
Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1929–1964) |
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| Military service | |
| Allegiance |
 Soviet Union
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| Service/branch | Red Army |
| Years of service | 1939−59 |
| Rank |
Major general (1942-1943) Lieutenant general (1943-1944) Colonel general (1944-1951) Major general(1951-1964) |
| Commands |
7th Army (1939-1940) Northwestern Front(1941–42) Leningrad Front (1942–43) Volkhov Front (1943–44) Karelian Front (1944) 1st Far Eastern Front (1945) |
Terentii Fomich Shtykov (Russian:Терентий Штыков; Korean:테렌티 스티코프; 28 February [O.S. 13 March] 1907 – 25 October 1964) was effectively the first supreme leader of North Korea, as the de facto head of its 1945-1951 military occupation and the first Soviet Ambassador to North Korea from 1948 until 1950. Shtykov's support for Kim Il-sung was crucial in Kim's rise to power, and the two persuaded Stalin to allow the Korean War to begin in June 1950.
A protégé of the influential politician Andrei Zhdanov, General Shtykov served as a political commissar during World War II, ending up on the Military Council of the Primorskiy Military District. Through direct access to Joseph Stalin, Shtykov became the "real supreme ruler of North Korea, the principal supervisor of both the Soviet military and the local authorities." Shtykov conceived of the Soviet Civil Administration, supported Kim's appointment as head of the North Korean provisional government, and assisted Stalin with editing the first North Korean constitution.
As the preeminent representative of the Soviet Union's political authority over the nascent North Korea from October 1945 until December 1950, Shtykov's legacy was to aid the Kim family's rise to power. The war they started freed Kim from Soviet domination; China intervened following North Korea's poor military performance in the early autumn. Shtykov was fired as ambassador in December and demoted to major general the following month. He later served as the Soviet ambassador to Hungary from 1959 to 1960.
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