Georgiy Fedorovich Zakharov (Russian: Гео́ргий Фёдорович Заха́ров; 23 April 1897 – 26 January 1957) was a Soviet general who served in World War I, the...
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Vasilevich Zakharov (Russian: Матве́й Васи́льевич Заха́ров; August 17, 1898 – January 31, 1972) was Marshal of the Soviet Union, Chief of the General Staff...
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Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov (Russian: Георгий Константинович Жуков; 1 December 1896 – 18 June 1974) was a Marshal of the Soviet Union. He also served...
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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...
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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...
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Osovets offensive (section Red Army)
Belorussian Front (Colonel-General Georgy Zakharov) 87th NKVD Border Guard Regiment (Major Aleksander Olschuk) 49th Army (Lieutenant-General Ivan Grishin) 343rd...
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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...
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2nd Belorussian Front (section Component armies)
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...
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Boris Shaposhnikov (category Imperial Russian Army officers)
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...
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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...
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(November 1942 – February 1943) Lieutenant General Georgy Zakharov (July 1943 – June 1944) Lieutenant General Porfiry Chanchibadze (June 1944 – until the...
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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...
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Kirill Semyonovich Moskalenko Marshal of the Soviet Union Matvei Vasilevich Zakharov Admiral Arseniy Grigoriyevich Golovko Admiral Vladimir Filippovich Tributs...
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Front (military formation) (redirect from Soviet Army fronts)
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...
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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...
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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...
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Kirill Meretskov (redirect from General Meretskov)
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...
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1953, Bulganin supported Nikita Khrushchev during his power struggle with Georgy Malenkov. In 1955, he replaced Malenkov as Premier of the Soviet Union....
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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...
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Semyon Timoshenko (redirect from Cavalry Army clique)
winner." But just then, Marshal Timoshenko began his descent from glory. General Georgy Zhukov's success in defending Moscow during December 1941 had persuaded...
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Konstantin Rokossovsky (category Soviet officers in Polish Army 1943-1968)
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...
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the Soviet Western Front, two days after its original commander, General of the Army Dmitri Pavlov, was dismissed (and later convicted and executed) for...
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Registration Department was not directly subordinate to the General Staff (at the time called the Red Army Field Staff – Polevoi Shtab). Administratively, it was...
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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...
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Lieutenant-General Andrey Yeryomenko (16.08.41 to 13.10.41), Major-General Georgiy Fedorovich Zakharov (14.10.41 to 10.11.41). Second Formation Colonel-General Yakov...
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citation] Georgy Zhukov – Marshal of the Soviet Union After the victory at Stalingrad, the 62nd Army was redesignated the Soviet 8th Guards Army. Chuikov...
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Pyotr Lushev (category Army generals (Soviet Union))
Гео́ргиевич Лу́шев; 18 October 1923 – 23 March 1997) was an Army General of the Soviet Army during the Cold War who was the last Supreme Commander of the...
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Matvey Burlakov (category Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union alumni)
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...
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1942) April 29 — Georgy Klimov, linguist (b. 1928) April 30 — Vladimir Sukharev, sprinter and Olympian (b. 1924) May 13 — Eduard Zakharov, boxer (b. 1975)...
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Mikhail Tukhachevsky (section Reform of the Red Army)
of Georgy Zhukov defeated a substantial Japanese force in August and September 1939. It is often stated that the widespread purges of the Red Army officer...
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