State funeral of Soviet Hero Marshal Ustinov in Moscow 

Dmitriy Feodorovich Ustinov
30 October 1908 - 20 December 1984
Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union from 1976 until his death
On 7 November 1984, Ustinov did not preside over the annual Red Square Military Parade on the anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution.
First Deputy Defense Minister Marshal Sergey Sokolov stood in for Ustinov to both inspect the troops and deliver the commemoration speech.
Ustinov had contracted pneumonia in late October. Emergency surgery had to be performed to correct an aneurysm in his aortic valve.
His liver and kidneys later deteriorated.
Eventually, he suffered a cardiac arrest that killed him.
He was honored with a state funeral, and his ashes were interred in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis on 24 December 1984.
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