Georgiy Fedorovich Zakharov (Russian: Гео́ргий Фёдорович Заха́ров; 23 April 1897 – 26 January 1957) was a Soviet general who served in World War I, the...

Vasilevich Zakharov (Russian: Матве́й Васи́льевич Заха́ров; August 17, 1898 – January 31, 1972) was Marshal of the Soviet Union, Chief of the General Staff...

Nefiodovich Zakharov (Russian: Георгий Нефёдович Захаров; 24 April 1908 – 6 January 1996) was a Soviet Air Force general. Born to a peasant family, Zakharov graduated...

Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov (Russian: Георгий Константинович Жуков; 1 December 1896 – 18 June 1974) was Marshal of the Soviet Union from 1943 to 1957...

the period of the Russian Empire. The current Chief of the General Staff is Army General Valery Gerasimov. † denotes people who died in office. Died...

was a Soviet general, military theorist, Marshal of the Soviet Union, and a commander of Red Army forces during World War II. As Georgy Zhukov's chief...

April 1958) was a Soviet Army General from 1941. Born in Trubchevsk in 1896, he began his military service in the Red Army in 1918, the year when he...

Belorussian Front (Colonel-General Georgy Zakharov) 87th NKVD Border Guard Regiment (Major Aleksander Olschuk) 49th Army (Lieutenant-General Ivan Grishin) 343rd...

Georgy Zhukov, but was again forced to resign a year later due to declining health. He then held the post of commandant of the Academy of the General...

10th Army. In May the front's troops took part in localized fighting in Belorussia. Petrov was replaced in command by General-polkovnik Georgy Zakharov in...

(November 1942 – February 1943) Lieutenant General Georgy Zakharov (July 1943 – June 1944) Lieutenant General Porfiry Chanchibadze (June 1944 – until the...

Stalin Deputy Commander-in-Chief: Army General Georgy Zhukov (from August 8) Chief of the General Staff: Army General Georgy Zhukov (until July 21), then Marshal...

promoted to rank of army general and made Deputy Commissar of Defense. From August 1940 to January 1941, he was Chief of the General Staff. He was dismissed...

2nd Belorussian Fronts, commanded by Georgy Zhukov. On its creation on 9 June 1945 it included: 1st Guards Tank Army (HQ Radebeul) 8th Guards Mechanised...

initiators of the Great Purge in which Tukhachevsky was executed. According to Georgy Zhukov, it was Tukhachevsky, not Voroshilov, who ran the ministry in practice...

Kirill Semyonovich Moskalenko Marshal of the Soviet Union Matvei Vasilevich Zakharov Admiral Arseniy Grigoriyevich Golovko Admiral Vladimir Filippovich Tributs...

winner." But just then, Marshal Timoshenko began his descent from glory. General Georgy Zhukov's success in defending Moscow during December 1941 had persuaded...

countries. It varies in size but in general contains three to five armies. It should not be confused with the more general usage of military front, describing...

General of the Army Nikolai Yegorovich Makarov (Russian: Никола́й Его́рович Мака́ров, IPA: [nʲɪkɐˈlaj jɪˈgorəvʲɪtɕ mɐˈkarəf]; born 7 October 1949) is...

Bukhara in September 1920. In November 1920, Frunze's army took the Crimea and managed to push White general Pyotr Wrangel and his troops out of Russia. As commander...

the command of 16th Army. He was ordered to defend the approaches to Moscow, and was now under the direct command of General Georgy Zhukov, his former...

military commander, who was Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces in 1991, General of the Army, Doctor of Military Sciences and People's...

chief of staff of the Soviet Army, he formulated a military plan to invade Afghanistan. He later served as Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed...

German defeat, Konev's 1st Ukrainian Front was pitted against the armies of Georgy Zhukov in the Race to Berlin. Konev was the first Allied commander...

commander-in-chief of the Soviet Ground Forces. In 1957, he replaced the ousted Georgy Zhukov as Minister of Defence, a position he served until his death. Malinovsky...

was a General of the Soviet Army, awarded the Order of Victory for his efforts in World War II. From 1945 to 1946 he was Chief of the General Staff of...

Necropolis. The quality of his work was realised late during World War II, when Georgy Zhukov said that his success was due to closely following Triandafillov's...

promoted to major general on 25 April 1975. Graduating from the General Staff Academy in 1977, Burlakov took command of the 31st Army Corps of the Transcaucasian...

citation] Georgy Zhukov – Marshal of the Soviet Union After the victory at Stalingrad, the 62nd Army was redesignated the Soviet 8th Guards Army. Chuikov...

1953, Bulganin supported Nikita Khrushchev during his power struggle with Georgy Malenkov. In 1955, he replaced Malenkov as Premier of the Soviet Union....