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...
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Reserve of the Supreme High Command (redirect from Stavka-VGK)
Command (Russian: Резерв Верховного Главнокомандования; also known as the Stavka Reserve or RVGK (Russian: РВГК) or RGK (Russian: РГК — Резерв Главного Командования)...
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The Stavka of the Supreme Commander (Russian: Ставка Верховного главнокомандующего) was the supreme headquarters of the Russian Imperial Army in the field...
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The Stavka of the Supreme High Command was an extraordinary body of the highest military command, exercising strategic leadership of the Soviet Armed Forces...
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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...
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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...
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Letnyaya Stavka (Russian: Летняя Ставка) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Turkmensky District, Stavropol Krai, Russia. Population:...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Stalin, Stavka and the leadership of the Southwestern Strategic Direction led by Timoshenko throughout March and April, with one of the final Stavka directives...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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were organized. Following six months of combat against the Germans, the Stavka abolished the rifle corps which was intermediate between the army and division...
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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...
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usually absent due to his frequent frontline missions as Stavka representative. As a result, Stavka relieved Antonov of his position in Operational Directorate...
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SD version of the channel available only in the cable ** TTV belongs to Stavka (51% — TVN Discovery, 49% — Besta Film) * SD version of the channel available...
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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...
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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...
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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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effectively concealed. Stavka and the Red Army applied the doctrine of military deception at three levels: Strategic (theatre-wide): Stavka hid the location...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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of Ukraine. Joseph Stalin ordered the total liberation of Ukraine, and Stavka, the Soviet High Command, set in motion plans that would become the Lvov-Sandomierz...
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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...
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