Kirill Afanasievich Meretskov (Russian: Кири́лл Афана́сьевич Мерецко́в; 7 June [O.S. 26 May] 1897 – 30 December 1968) was a Soviet military commander...
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actor and director Kirill Lyamin (born 1986), Russian ice hockey player Kirill Mazurov (1914–1989), Belarusian politician Kirill Meretskov (1897–1968), Russian...
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deployment of the army's best units. Zhdanov's military commander, Kirill Meretskov, reported, "The terrain of coming operations is split by lakes, rivers...
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feeling because it was called hastily—indeed, Zhukov had ordered General Kirill Moskalenko to secretly prepare a special force and permitted the force to...
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of his army and returned to Leningrad. Command of the war operation Kirill Meretskov was called-off due to extensive failures and heavy casualties, and...
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permanent counsellors of Stavka": Marshal Kulik, Marshal Shaposhnikov, Kirill Meretskov, head of the Air force Zhigarev, Nikolay Vatutin, head of Air Defence...
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put in a "confrontation" with Kirill Meretskov; the NKVD used Loktionov's bloodied appearance to intimidate Meretskov. After the German Invasion of the...
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By September 1941, the link with the Volkhov Front (commanded by Kirill Meretskov) was severed and the defensive sectors were held by four armies: 23rd...
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undertaken jointly by the Karelian Front under the command of General Kirill Meretskov and the Northern Fleet under Admiral Arseniy Golovko. The main operations...
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end the double envelopment. The 1st Far East Front, under Marshal Kirill Meretskov, was to form the eastern half of the pincer movement. The attack involved...
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Alekseyev June 19: Colonel General Alexander Loktionov June 24: General Kirill Meretskov and Lieutenant General Pavel Rychagov June 27: Lieutenant General Ivan...
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among whom were future marshals of the Soviet Union Nikolay Voronov, Kirill Meretskov, Vasily Sokolovsky and Vasily Chapayev. During the Second World War...
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1944 divided between the Leningrad and 2nd Baltic Fronts) Marshal Kirill Meretskov D. Mel'nikov Northwestern Front (disbanded Nov 1943, 2nd Belorussian...
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Tikhvin Offensive operation under the command of the Army General Kirill Meretskov, with General Grigory Stelmakh (former commander of the 4th Army) as...
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Front at Harbin and Qiqihar. The 1st Far Eastern Front, under Marshal Kirill Meretskov, included: 1st Red Banner Army 5th Army 25th Army 35th Army 10th Mechanized...
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Vasilievsky, Konev, Rokossovsky, Malinovsky, Tolbukhin, Govorov, and Meretskov. Those who assumed high command in the Cold War era. All of these were...
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9 mi) separated Leonid Govorov's Leningrad Front in the city from Kirill Meretskov's Volkhov Front. Despite the failures of earlier operations, lifting...
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http://militera.lib.ru/memo/russian/meretskov/index.html Meretskov K. A. In the service of the people. - M.: Politizdat, 1968. Meretskov K. A. At the service of the...
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'Tell all, tell all.' Interrogating General Kirill Meretskov in 1941, he broke one of his ribs; Meretskov survived to give evidence at Rodos's trial in...
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in the sector: he exchanged 4th Army General Vsevolod Yakovlev for Kirill Meretskov; reinforced the 54th Army with five rifle divisions (one of them guard)...
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undertaken jointly by the Karelian Front under the command of General Kirill Meretskov and the Northern Fleet under Admiral Arseniy Golovko. The main operations...
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disclaimed responsibility for the arrest in 1941 of the Red Army Marshal, Kirill Meretskov, for which he blamed Stalin and Abakumov. However, Nikita Khrushchev...
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and Northern fleet, consisting of 133,500 men under Field Marshal Kirill Meretskov, attacked the weakest point of the German line, the junction between...
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January 1943 and August 1944. He closely collaborated with Marshal Kirill Meretskov while chief of staff for the Karelian Front (September - November 1944)...
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Dietl Lothar Rendulic Joseph Stalin Markian Popov Valerian Frolov Kirill Meretskov Mikhail Khozin Leonid Govorov Strength Average: 450,000 Finns Peak:...
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Military District 1938–1940 Succeeded by Georgy Zhukov Preceded by Kirill Meretskov as Commander of the Leningrad Military District Commander of the Northwestern...
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Northern Front Karelian Front (1.9.41. – 15.11.44.) Valerian Frolov, Kirill Meretskov disbanded after Finland exited the war, Front HQ used for the formation...
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to spill on the carpet. He also beat the arrested Red Army officers Kirill Meretskov and Boris Vannikov with a rubber truncheon, though when charged with...
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Komarov, Rodion Malinovsky 1968 6 Yuri Gagarin, Vladimir Seryogin, Kirill Meretskov, Konstantin Rokossovsky, Vasily Sokolovsky, Nikolay Voronov 1970 3...
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1940 3 years, 2 months Red Army 3 Shaposhnikov, BorisArmy General Kirill Meretskov (1897–1968) August 1940 January 1941 5 months Red Army 4 Zhukov, GeorgyArmy...
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