The Stavka (Russian and Ukrainian: Ставка, Belarusian: Стаўка) is a name of the high command of the armed forces used formerly in the Russian Empire and...

The Stavka of the Supreme Commander (Russian: Ставка Верховного главнокомандующего) was the supreme headquarters of the Russian Imperial Army in the field...

Command (Russian: Резерв Верховного Главнокомандования; also known as the Stavka Reserve or RVGK (Russian: РВГК) or RGK (Russian: РГК — Резерв Главного Командования)...

The Stavka of the Supreme High Command was an extraordinary body of the highest military command, exercising strategic leadership of the Soviet Armed Forces...

through as soon as they could build local superiority. In 1911, the Russian Stavka agreed with the French to attack Germany within fifteen days of mobilisation...

On the same day, due to the ineffectiveness of earlier counter-attacks, Stavka ordered Kirponos to withdraw his forces to new defensive positions by 9...

Letnyaya Stavka (Russian: Летняя Ставка) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Turkmensky District, Stavropol Krai, Russia. Population:...

historiography for decades. According to the Russian historian Yuri Kilin, the Stavka set up a research commission in January 1940 to investigate the number of...

German invasion of the Soviet Union, Timoshenko was named chairman of the Stavka. Replaced by Stalin himself a month later, he went on to hold a series of...

pushing Erich von Manstein's Army Group South back towards the Dnieper River. Stavka, the Soviet high command, ordered the Central Front and the Voronezh Front...

governor) Succeeded by Position abolished 1st Supreme Commander of the Stavka of the Russian Empire In office 31 July 1914 – 23 August 1915 Monarch Nicholas...

Major-General Sir John Hanbury-Williams, head of the British military at Stavka, received word of the death of his son in action with the British Expeditionary...

Stalin, Stavka and the leadership of the Southwestern Strategic Direction led by Timoshenko throughout March and April, with one of the final Stavka directives...

he headed as Supreme Commander, as well as a military Supreme Command (Stavka), with Georgy Zhukov as its Chief of Staff. The German tactic of blitzkrieg...

defense of the city. On 6 October, Zhukov was appointed the representative of Stavka for the Reserve and Western Fronts. On 10 October, those fronts were merged...

might devastate this region if the Red Army did not advance fast enough. Stavka (the Soviet high command) chose the second option. Instead of deep penetration...

As the Red Army withdrew behind the Dnieper and Dvina rivers, the Soviet Stavka (high command) turned its attention to evacuating as much of the western...

were organized. Following six months of combat against the Germans, the Stavka abolished the rifle corps which was intermediate between the army and division...

commanded by ground-forces generals. An entire Front might report either to the Stavka or to a theatre of military operations (TVD). A Front was mobilised for...

usually absent due to his frequent frontline missions as Stavka representative. As a result, Stavka relieved Antonov of his position in Operational Directorate...

tried to cut the corridor, but the attacks were unsuccessful. In October, Stavka replaced Pavel Kurochkin in command of the Northwestern Front with Semyon...

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1941.[citation needed] On September 12, 1941 Joseph Stalin issued the Stavka Directive No. 1919 (Директива Ставки ВГК №001919) concerning the creation...

then-Polish-Soviet border. In the years 1915–1917, during World War I, the Stavka, the headquarters of the Russian Imperial Army, was based in the city and...

Between 1915 and 1917 he served as Tsar Nicholas II's Chief of Staff of the Stavka, and after the February Revolution, was its commander-in-chief under the...

effectively concealed. Stavka and the Red Army applied the doctrine of military deception at three levels: Strategic (theatre-wide): Stavka hid the location...

Stavka's assertion that rumors of war were deception at face value and watched a comedy in Kiev. While his front-line units were under the Stavka's general...

the front open, but initially General Alexeev at Stavka refused to take the offensive seriously; Stavka remained convinced that main German attack would...

military (Stavka) issued orders to take no further offensive actions in this sector of the front. Glantz claims that the plans of the Stavka envisioned...

units of the Kwantung Army then became involved. Joseph Stalin ordered Stavka, the Red Army's high command, to develop a plan for a counterstrike against...