[1] Promoted to lieutenant-general later in the war, Bezugly took part in the Soviet operations against Imperial Japan following the end of World War II in Europe as commanding officer of the 5th Guards Rifle Corps, which fought as part of Colonel-General Ivan Lyudnikov's 39th Army in the Soviet invasion of Manchuria in August 1945.

[3] A Ukrainian, Ivan Semyonovich Bezugly was born on 23 October 1897 in the village of Zayerok, Starobelsky Uyezd, Kharkov Governorate.

[4] As the Russian Civil War began, Bezugly joined the Red Army at Povorino on 25 June and commanded a platoon of the Kekholm Regiment.

In October Bezugly formed the 9th Airborne Corps in the Volga Military District, but was relieved of command on 30 March, for "using military aircraft for personal purposes and failure to carry out the orders of the Soviet Airborne Forces command to hand over aircraft to other units in time."

[4][5] On 13 June, Bezugly was posted to command the 32nd Rifle Division, forming in the Moscow Military District at Borisoglebskoye, 20 kilometers from Murom.

[4][5] From 6 January to 10 March 1943 Bezugly was treated in a hospital after being wounded, then was appointed acting commander of the 158th Rifle Division.

Bezugly was restored to the rank of major general on 1 September, and for the capture of the important German-held junction of Liozno on the Vitebsk axis the division received the name of the town as an honorific on 10 October.

The recommendation read:[6] Commander of the 5th Guards Rifle Corps Lieutenant General Comrade Bezugly in the fighting to break through the strongly fortified and deeply echeloned defenses of the Germans on the border of East Prussia, in the region of Pilkallen and on the approaches to Koenigsberg, secured significant successes - units of the 5th Guards Rifle Corps under the command of Lieutenant General Comrade Bezugly successfully fulfilled their assigned objectives.

On 13 January 1945, units and formations of the corps, breaking through the defense of the enemy, went on the offensive, developing the offensive, operating day and night without a break, units of the corps on 19 January 1945 broke through the permanent, strongly fortified Insterburg Defensive Line, saturated with pillboxes, field fortifications and obstacles.

On 25 January 1945, as a result of their swift blow, units of the corps, by storm, employing maneuver on the battlefield, forced a crossing of the Deime river and repulsing repeated enemy counterattacks broke through the strongly fortified permanent defensive line on the west bank of the Deime river In total, during the period of combat operations, the 5th Guards Rifle Corps fought up to 140 kilometers forward.

In May, after the German surrender, the corps and its parent 39th Army were withdrawn to the Reserve of the Supreme High Command and relocated by rail to Mongolia.

With the forces of its mobile group and forward detachments, the corps destroyed Japanese opposition covering the approaches to the passes of the Greater Khingan.

Bezugly was replaced and placed at the disposal of the Main Cadre Directorate of the Soviet Army in December 1952, before being retired due to illness on 20 June 1953.