Beginning in June 1964 he was chairman of the Central Committee of the All-Union Voluntary Society for Assistance to the Army, Air Force, and Navy.

He was deputy to the fifth through seventh convocations of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and became a candidate member of the Central Committee of the CPSU in 1961.

Andrei Getman was born on 5 October 1903 in Klepaly [uk] village of Kursk Governorate to a peasant family.

In May 1929, Getman became the assistant to the chief of the first department of staff of the division and the head of the Zhitomir House of the Red Army.

In February 1938, Getman became the acting commander and chief of staff of the 31st Mechanized Brigade after being promoted to major.

In September 1939, Getman became the assistant commander of the 2nd Mechanized Brigade and was promoted to lieutenant colonel on 8 October 1940.

[1][2][3][4] In September, Getman was appointed commander of the 112th Tank Division, which had arrived from the Transbaikal to fight in defense of Moscow.

Elements of the division were active in the area of Serpukhov with the 49th Army and were then assigned to Pavel Belov's group and fought in the defense of Kashira.

The division was sent to Kashira, where they fought in conjunction with Belov's 1st Guards Rifle Corps during the counterattack against Heinz Guderian's units.

Getman pushed his division forward and defeated German units at the Revyakino station on 7 December, opening the Moscow-Tula railway.

[1][2][3][5] In July 1945, Getman became the deputy commander of the Urals Military District's armored and mechanized forces.

Getman transferred in November to command armored and mechanized forces subordinated to the Transcaucasian Military District.

In January 1949, he became the chief of staff and deputy commander of Soviet Army armored and mechanized forces.

On 7 May 1965, Getman was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union and the Order of Lenin on the 20th anniversary of the end of World War II.