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56-521: Ivan Stepanovich Konev (Russian: Ива́н Степа́нович Ко́нев , IPA: [ɪˈvan sʲtʲɪˈpanəvʲɪtɕ ˈkonʲɪf] ; 28 December 1897 – 21 May 1973) was a Soviet general and Marshal of the Soviet Union who led Red Army forces on the Eastern Front during World War II , responsible for taking much of Axis-occupied Eastern Europe . Born to a peasant family, Konev was conscripted into

112-487: A Marshal in 1976, and Dmitry Ustinov , who was prominent in the arms industry and was appointed Defence Minister in July 1976. The last Marshal of the Soviet Union was Dmitry Yazov , appointed in 1990, who was imprisoned after the failed coup against Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991. Marshal Sergei Akhromeev suicided in 1991 during the fall of the Soviet Union . The Marshals fell into three generational groups. All Marshals in

168-607: A dummy air-defense network; and the use of reconnaissance units to verify the quality of his army's camouflage and deception works. In David Glantz's view, Konev's forces "generated a major portion of the element of surprise". As a result, the Germans seriously underestimated the strength of the Soviet defenses. The commander of the 19th Panzer division of the Wehrmacht , General G. Schmidt , wrote that "We did not assume that there

224-899: A member of the GKChP during the 1991 coup attempt . ^ On 14 February 1992, by the decision of the Council of CIS Heads of State, Marshal Yevgeny Shaposhnikov was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the United Armed Forces of the CIS . References [ edit ] ^ Решение Совета глав государств Содружества Независимых Государств от 14 февраля 1992 года о назначении Главнокомандующего Объединенными Вооруженными Силами Содружества ^ Постановление Верховного Совета СССР от 29 августа 1991 г. N 2370-I «О членах Кабинета Министров СССР» v t e Ministers of Defence of

280-554: A symbolic investigation of the alleged "defiling of symbols of Russia's military glory". Marshal of the Soviet Union The rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union was created in 1935 and abolished in 1991 when the Soviet Union dissolved . Forty-one people held this rank. The equivalent naval rank was until 1955 admiral of the fleet and from 1955 Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union . The military rank of Marshal of

336-546: The 1st Ukrainian Front ) until May 1945. He participated in the Battle of Kursk , commanding the southern part of the Soviet counter-offensive, the Steppe Front , where he actively and energetically promoted maskirovka (the use of military camouflage and deception ). Among the maskirovka measures he adopted to achieve tactical surprise were the camouflaging of defense lines and depots; dummy units and supply points;

392-747: The Balkans , (the first Jassy–Kishinev Offensive ) together with Generals Rodion Malinovsky and Fyodor Tolbukhin . By July, he had advanced to the Vistula River in central Poland, and was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union . In September 1944 his forces, now designated the Fourth Ukrainian Front , advanced into Slovakia and fought alongside the Slovak partisans in their rebellion against German occupation . In January 1945, Konev, together with Georgy Zhukov , commanded

448-1739: The CIS Armed Forces (1992–1993) Minister of Defence (Russian Federation) The Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union ( Russian : Министр обороны СССР ) refers to the head of the Ministry of Defence who was responsible for defence of the socialist / communist Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1917 to 1922 and the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1992. People's Commissars for Military and Naval Affairs (1917–1934) [ edit ] No. Portrait People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs Took office Left office Time in office 1 [REDACTED] Council 8 November 1917 15 November 1917 7 days 2 [REDACTED] Podvoisky, Nikolai Nikolai Podvoisky (1880–1948) 15 November 1917 13 March 1918 118 days 3 [REDACTED] Trotsky, Leon Leon Trotsky (1879–1940) 14 March 1918 25 January 1925 6 years, 317 days 4 [REDACTED] Frunze, Mikhail Mikhail Frunze (1885–1925) 25 January 1925 31 October 1925 † 279 days 5 [REDACTED] Voroshilov, Kliment Kliment Voroshilov (1881–1969) 6 November 1925 20 June 1934 8 years, 232 days People's Commissars for Defence (1934–1946) [ edit ] No. Portrait People's Commissar for Defence Took office Left office Time in office 1 [REDACTED] Voroshilov, Kliment Marshal of

504-895: The Imperial Russian Army in 1916 and fought in World War I . In 1919, he joined the Bolsheviks and served in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War . After graduating from Frunze Military Academy in 1926, Konev gradually rose through the ranks of the Soviet military. By 1939, he had become a candidate to the Central Committee of the Communist Party . Following the German invasion of

560-701: The Military University of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation . In 1969, the Ministry of Defence of the USSR published Konev's 285-page war memoir called Forty-Five . It was later translated into English in the same year and published by Progress Publishers , Moscow. This work discusses Konev's taking of Berlin, Prague, his work with Zhukov, Stalin , his field meeting with General Omar Bradley and Jascha Heifetz . In English,

616-689: The North Caucasus Military Districts in 1940 and 1941, respectively. In 1934 he became commander and political commissar of the 37th Rifle Division . In July 1938, he was appointed commander of the 2nd Red Banner Army . In 1937 he became a Deputy of the Supreme Soviet and in 1939 a candidate member of the Party Central Committee . When Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, Konev

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672-721: The Race to Berlin . Konev was the first Allied commander to enter Prague , the capital of Czechoslovakia , after the Prague uprising . He replaced Zhukov as commander of Soviet ground forces in 1946. In 1956, he was appointed commander of the Warsaw Pact armed forces , and led the violent suppression of the Hungarian Revolution and Prague Spring . In 1961, as commander of Soviet forces in East Germany, he ordered

728-604: The Silesian industry by the retreating Germans. In April Konev's troops, together with the 1st Belorussian Front under his competitor, Marshal Zhukov, forced the line of the Oder and advanced towards Berlin . Konev's forces entered the city first, but Stalin gave Zhukov the honor of capturing Berlin and hoisting the Soviet flag over the Reichstag . Konev was ordered to the south-west, where his forces linked up with elements of

784-848: The Southwestern Front ) as a junior sergeant in 1917, he fought in the Kerensky Offensive in Galicia in July 1917. When the October Revolution broke out in November 1917, he was demobilized and returned home; in 1918, he joined the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and the Red Army , serving as an artilleryman. During the Russian Civil War of 1917-1923, he served with the Red Army in

840-539: The Soviet Union People's Commissars for Military and Naval Affairs (1917–1934) Council (1917) Nikolai Podvoisky (1917–18) Leon Trotsky (1918–25) Mikhail Frunze (1925) Kliment Voroshilov (1925–34) [REDACTED] People's Commissars for Defence (1934–1946) Kliment Voroshilov (1934–40) Semyon Timoshenko (1940–41) Joseph Stalin (1941–46) People's Commissars for

896-671: The United States Army at Torgau (25 April 1945) and also retook Prague (9 May 1945) shortly after the official surrender of the German forces. After the war the Soviet Union appointed Konev as head of the Soviet occupation forces in Eastern Germany and also Allied High Commissioner for Austria . In 1946 he became Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Ground Forces and First Deputy Minister of Defense of

952-539: The 1st and 2nd Ukrainian Fronts, commanded, respectively, by Nikolai Vatutin and by Konev, trapped German forces of Army Group South in a pocket or "cauldron" west of the Dnieper river . During weeks of fighting, the two Red Army Fronts tried to eradicate the pocket; the subsequent Korsun battle eliminated the cauldron. According to Milovan Djilas , Konev openly boasted of his killing of thousands of German prisoners of war: "The cavalry finally finished them off. 'We let

1008-705: The Armed Forces Took office Left office Time in office 1 [REDACTED] Stalin, Joseph Marshal of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin (1878–1953) 15 March 1946 3 March 1947 353 days 2 [REDACTED] Bulganin, Nikolai Marshal of the Soviet Union Nikolai Bulganin (1895–1975) 3 March 1947 24 March 1949 2 years, 21 days 3 [REDACTED] Vasilevsky, Aleksandr Marshal of

1064-501: The Armed Forces (1946) [ edit ] No. Portrait People's Commissar for the Armed Forces Took office Left office Time in office 1 [REDACTED] Stalin, Joseph Marshal of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin (1878–1953) 25 February 1946 15 March 1946 18 days Ministers of the Armed Forces (1946–1950) [ edit ] No. Portrait Minister of

1120-848: The Cossacks cut up as long as they wished. They even hacked off the hands of those who raised them to surrender' the Marshal recounted with a smile." For Konev's achievements in Ukraine, the Presidium promoted him to Marshal of the Soviet Union in February 1944. Konev was one of Stalin's favorite generals and one of the few senior commanders whom even Stalin admired for his ruthlessness. During 1944 Konev's armies advanced from Ukraine and Belarus into Poland and later into Czechoslovakia . In May 1944 he participated in an unsuccessful invasion of

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1232-583: The Navy (1950–1953) Ivan Yumashev (1950–51) Nikolai Kuznetsov (1951–53) Ministers of Defence (1953–1992) Nikolai Bulganin (1953–55) Georgy Zhukov (1955–57) Rodion Malinovsky (1957–67) Andrei Grechko (1967–76) Dmitry Ustinov (1976–84) Sergei Sokolov (1984–87) Dmitry Yazov (1987–91) Yevgeny Shaposhnikov (1991–92) Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Minister_of_Defence_(Soviet_Union)&oldid=1252934739 " Categories : Ministers of defence of

1288-752: The Navy (1937–1946) [ edit ] No. Portrait People's Commissar for the Navy Took office Left office Time in office 1 [REDACTED] Smirnov, Pyotr Army Commissar of 1st rank Pyotr Smirnov (1897–1939) 30 December 1937 30 June 1938 182 days 2 [REDACTED] Frinovsky, Mikhail Komandarm 1st rank Mikhail Frinovsky (1898–1940) 8 September 1938 20 March 1939 193 days 3 [REDACTED] Kuznetsov, Nikolai Vice Admiral Nikolai Kuznetsov (1904–1974) 28 April 1939 25 February 1946 6 years, 303 days People's Commissar for

1344-831: The Navy (1950–1953) [ edit ] No. Portrait Minister of the Navy Took office Left office Time in office 1 [REDACTED] Yumashev, Ivan Admiral Ivan Yumashev (1895–1972) 25 February 1950 20 July 1951 1 year, 145 days 2 [REDACTED] Kuznetsov, Nikolai Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Nikolai Kuznetsov (1904–1974) 20 July 1951 15 March 1953 1 year, 238 days Ministers of Defence (1953–1992) [ edit ] No. Portrait Minister of Defence Took office Left office Time in office Leader Premier 1 [REDACTED] Bulganin, Nikolai Marshal of

1400-600: The Nikolo-Pushemsky Zemstvo School in the neighboring village of Schetkino in 1912. At the age of 15, he found work as a forester and lumberjack at Podosinovets and Arkhangelsk . In the beginning of 1915, he was conscripted into the Imperial Russian Army. Konev was sent to the 2nd Heavy Artillery Brigade at Moscow and then graduated from artillery training courses. Posted to the 2nd Separate Heavy Artillery Battalion (then part of

1456-553: The Russian Far Eastern Republic . His commander at one time was Kliment Voroshilov , a close colleague of Joseph Stalin , who later became People's Commissar for Defense (in office: 1925-1940). (This connection was the key to Konev's subsequent career and to his protection during the Great Purge of the late 1930s.) In his memoirs, he wrote: "Together with a group of demobilized soldiers, I organized

1512-806: The Russian Empire List of heads of the military of Imperial Russia Ministry of Defense (Soviet Union) Ministry of Defense Industry (Soviet Union) Ministry of Defence (Russia) General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Chief of the General Staff (Russia) Cheget Notes [ edit ] ^ The committee of the People's Commissars for Military and Naval Affairs consisted of Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko , Pavel Dybenko , and Nikolai Krylenko . On 10 November 1917 Ovseenko

1568-685: The Soviet Union Kliment Voroshilov (1881–1969) 20 June 1934 7 May 1940 5 years, 322 days 2 [REDACTED] Timoshenko, Semyon Marshal of the Soviet Union Semyon Timoshenko (1895–1970) 7 May 1940 19 July 1941 1 year, 73 days 3 [REDACTED] Stalin, Joseph Marshal of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin (1878–1953) 19 July 1941 25 February 1946 4 years, 221 days People's Commissars for

1624-579: The Soviet Union Aleksandr Vasilevsky (1895–1977) 24 March 1949 25 February 1950 338 days Minister of War (1950–1953) [ edit ] No. Portrait Minister of War Took office Left office Time in office 1 [REDACTED] Vasilevsky, Aleksandr Marshal of the Soviet Union Aleksandr Vasilevsky (1895–1977) 25 February 1950 15 March 1953 3 years, 18 days Ministers of

1680-952: The Soviet Union Dmitry Ustinov (1908–1984) 30 July 1976 20 December 1984 † 8 years, 143 days Leonid Brezhnev Yuri Andropov Konstantin Chernenko Alexsei Kosygin Nikolai Tikhonov 6 [REDACTED] Sokolov, Sergei Marshal of the Soviet Union Sergei Sokolov (1911–2012) 22 December 1984 29 May 1987 2 years, 158 days Konstantin Chernenko Mikhail Gorbachev Nikolai Tikhonov Nikolai Ryzhkov 7 [REDACTED] Yazov, Dmitry Marshal of

1736-635: The Soviet Union Dmitry Yazov (1924–2020) 30 May 1987 28 August 1991 4 years, 90 days Mikhail Gorbachev Nikolai Ryzhkov Valentin Pavlov 8 [REDACTED] Shaposhnikov, Yevgeny Marshal of Aviation Yevgeny Shaposhnikov (1942–2020) 29 August 1991 14 February 1992 169 days Mikhail Gorbachev (until Dec. 1991) Ivan Silayev See also [ edit ] College of War Ministry of War of

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1792-553: The Soviet Union Nikolai Bulganin (1895–1975) 15 March 1953 9 February 1955 1 year, 331 days Georgy Malenkov Nikita Khrushchev Georgy Malenkov 2 [REDACTED] Zhukov, Georgy Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov (1896–1974) 9 February 1955 26 October 1957 2 years, 259 days Nikita Khrushchev Nikolai Bulganin 3 [REDACTED] Malinovsky, Rodion Marshal of

1848-773: The Soviet Union Rodion Malinovsky (1898–1967) 26 October 1957 31 March 1967 † 9 years, 156 days Nikita Khrushchev Leonid Brezhnev Nikolai Bulganin Nikita Khrushchev Alexsei Kosygin 4 [REDACTED] Grechko, Andrei Marshal of the Soviet Union Andrei Grechko (1903–1976) 12 April 1967 26 April 1976 † 9 years, 14 days Leonid Brezhnev Alexsei Kosygin 5 [REDACTED] Ustinov, Dmitry Marshal of

1904-484: The Soviet Union in 1941, Konev took part in a series of major campaigns, including the battles of Moscow and Rzhev . Konev further commanded forces in major Soviet offensives at Kursk , in the Dnieper–Carpathian and Vistula–Oder offensives. In February 1944, he was made a Marshal of the Soviet Union . On the eve of German defeat, Konev's 1st Ukrainian Front was pitted against the armies of Georgy Zhukov in

1960-784: The Soviet Union was established by a decree of the Soviet Cabinet, the Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom), on 22 September 1935. On 20 November, the rank was conferred on five people: People's Commissar of Defence and veteran Bolshevik Kliment Voroshilov , Chief of the General Staff of the Red Army Alexander Yegorov , and three senior commanders, Vasily Blyukher , Semyon Budyonny , and Mikhail Tukhachevsky . Of these, Blyukher, Tukhachevsky, and Yegorov were executed during Stalin's Great Purge of 1937–38. On 7 May 1940, three new Marshals were appointed:

2016-409: The Soviet Union, and in 1945, he was joined by his intelligence and police chief Lavrenti Beria . These non-military Marshals were joined in 1947 by politician Nikolai Bulganin . Two Marshals were executed in postwar purges: Kulik in 1950 and Beria in 1953, following Stalin's death. Thereafter the rank was awarded only to professional soldiers, with the exception of Leonid Brezhnev , who made himself

2072-619: The Soviet Union, replacing Zhukov. He held these posts until 1950, when he was appointed commander of the Carpathian Military District . He held this post until 1960, when he retired from active service. In 1961–62, however, he was recalled and was again commander of the Soviet forces in East Germany , where he ordered the closing of West Berlin to East Berlin during the construction of the Berlin Wall . He

2128-440: The Soviet armies which launched the massive winter offensive in western Poland, driving the German forces from the Vistula to the Oder River . In southern Poland his armies seized Kraków (18 January 1945). Soviet historians, and generally Russian sources, claimed that Konev preserved Kraków from Nazi-planned destruction by ordering a lightning attack on the city. Konev's January 1945 offensive also prevented planned destruction of

2184-418: The Soviet capital, Stalin promoted Konev to Colonel-General . In the summer of 1942 Konev led the Kalinin Front and later the Western Front in the battle on the Rzhev salient . Konev held "Front" (army group) commands for the rest of the war. He commanded the Soviet Western Front until February 1943, the North-Western Front February–July 1943, and the 2nd Ukrainian Front from July 1943 (later further

2240-591: The book was titled I. Konev – Year of Victory . It was also published in Spanish and French under the titles El Año 45 and L'an 45 respectively. Konev died on 21 May 1973 at age 75 in Moscow . Following his cremation, his ashes were placed in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis with those of the greatest figures of the USSR, and can still be visited today. Konev has monuments, primarily in Russia. The places include Svidník , Patriot Park ( Moscow region), Kirov , Belgorod , Nizhny Novgorod , Omsk , and Vologda . On 9 January 1991, his memorial sculpture in Kraków

2296-413: The city administration added explanatory text to the monument, noting the participation of its subject in the suppression of the Hungarian Revolution and the Prague Spring. The monument was removed on 3 April 2020, with the Czech president Miloš Zeman criticizing the removal as "an abuse of the state of emergency". Within days, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation announced it would begin

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2352-421: The closing of West Berlin to East Berlin during the building of the Berlin Wall . Konev remained a popular military figure in the Soviet Union until his death in 1973. Konev was born 28 December 1897 in the village of Lodeyno in the Nikolsky Uyezd of Vologda Governorate to a peasant family of Russian ethnicity. Konev graduated from a parish school in the village of Yakovlevskaya Gora in 1906, and later

2408-411: The new People's Commissar of Defence, Semyon Timoshenko , Boris Shaposhnikov , and Grigory Kulik . During World War II , Kulik was demoted for incompetence, and the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union was given to a number of military commanders who earned it on merit. These included Georgy Zhukov , Ivan Konev and Konstantin Rokossovsky to name a few. In 1943, Stalin himself was made a Marshal of

2464-416: The overthrow of the land administration, the confiscation of agricultural land and the imprisonment of traders." He participated in the violent suppression of the 1921 Kronstadt rebellion . In 1926 Konev completed advanced officer training courses at the Frunze Military Academy , and between then and 1941 he held a series of progressively more senior commands, becoming head first of the Transbaikal then of

2520-537: The situation in the country, but there is no documentary evidence to support this. The British military historian John Erickson wrote that he was surprised with the extent of personal archives ( lichnye arkhivy ) held by former Red Army soldiers of many ranks, and that "there is no substitute for having the late Marshal Koniev (sic) – spectacles perched on nose – read from his own personal notebook, detailing operational orders, his own personal instructions to select commanders and his tally of Soviet casualties. And while on

2576-438: The subject of casualties, Marshal Koniev made it plain that, though such figures did exist, he was not prepared on his own authority to allow certain figures to be released for publication while a number of commanders were still alive." Konev remained one of the Soviet Union's most admired military figures until his death in 1973. He married twice, and his daughter Nataliya is Dean of the Department of Linguistics and Literature at

2632-655: The third category had been officers in World War II, except Ustinov, who had been People's Commissar for Armaments . Even Yazov, who was 20 when the war ended, had been a platoon commander. Brezhnev was not a professional soldier, but was still commissioned as a political commissar in the war. Of the 35 Marshals who were career soldiers, the majority were of Russian origin. Timoshenko (Tymoshenko), Kulik (Kulyk), Grechko (Hrechko), Yeremenko (Yeryomenko), Moskalenko, Batitsky (Batytsʹkyy) and Koshevoy (Koshovyy) were of Ukrainian origin, while Sokolovsky (Sakaloŭski) and Yakubovsky (Jakuboŭski) had Belarusian origins. Rokossovsky (Rokossowski)

2688-480: The trial of the Stalinist police chief Lavrenty Beria in 1953. He was again appointed First Deputy Minister of Defense and commander of Soviet ground forces, posts he held until 1956, when he was named Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Warsaw Pact . Shortly after his appointment he led the suppression of the Hungarian Revolution . It has been claimed that Konev visited military units in Czechoslovakia in order to obtain first-hand information to better assess

2744-925: Was Russian Defence Minister from 1997 to 2001. After the death of Marshal Yazov in 2020 there were no living Marshals of the Soviet Union. Minister of Defence (Soviet Union) Soviet government minister Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union Министр обороны СССР [REDACTED] Standard of the Minister of Defence (1964–1991) [REDACTED] Longest serving Kliment Voroshilov 6 November 1925 – 7 May 1940 Ministry of Defense Status Abolished Reports to Premier Nominator Council of Defence Appointer Politburo Precursor Minister of War (Russian Empire) Formation 8 November 1917 First holder Council on War and Navy Affairs Final holder Yevgeny Shaposhnikov Abolished 14 February 1992 Succession Commander-in-Chief of

2800-420: Was assigned command of the 19th Army in the Vitebsk region, and waged a series of defensive battles during the Red Army's retreat, first to Smolensk and then to the approaches to Moscow. He commanded the Kalinin Front from October 1941 to August 1942, playing a key role in the fighting around Moscow and the Soviet counter-offensive during the winter of 1941–42 . For his role in the successful defense of

2856-476: Was born in Congress Poland to a Polish family, while Malinovsky (Malinowsky) was born in Odessa (now in Ukraine) to a Polish father. Tukhachevsky also had Polish ancestry. Bagramyan (Baghramyan) was the sole marshal of Armenian origin. The rank was abolished with the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991. It was succeeded in the new Russia by the rank of Marshal of the Russian Federation , which has been held by only one person, Marshal Igor Sergeyev , who

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2912-451: Was dismantled less than just 4 years after it had been unveiled. The sculpture was given to the Russian city of Kirov . The memorial plaque in front of the apartment building where he lived (three blocks from the Kremlin ) is still mounted on the brick wall. The Konev monument erected by the communist government of Czechoslovakia in Prague 6 (náměstí Interbrigády) in 1980 became a subject of controversy that escalated in 2018, after which

2968-415: Was even one fourth [of the Russian strength] of what we had to encounter". After the Soviet victory (August 1943) at Kursk, Konev's armies retook Belgorod , Odessa , Kharkiv and Kyiv . The subsequent Korsun–Shevchenkovsky Offensive led to the Battle of the Korsun–Cherkassy Pocket which took place from 24 January to 16 February 1944. The offensive was part of the Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive . In it,

3024-425: Was stripped of all posts and revoked membership in the Bolshevik Party due to desertion. On 25 November 1917 Krylenko was appointed the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Red Army . ^ Dismissed by Nikita Khrushchev in the aftermath of the Anti-Party Group affair. ^ Dismissed by Mikhail Gorbachev as a result of the Mathias Rust affair. ^ Dismissed by Mikhail Gorbachev for being

3080-401: Was taken hostage during the Petrograd Junker mutiny and was released next day with the help of American journalist Williams. Later Ovseenko headed the Petrograd Military District until December when he was dispatched to Ukraine. Dybenko continued to supervise the naval affairs as the Supreme Navy College that was formed sometime in late November. He stayed in charge until 16 March 1918 when he

3136-405: Was then appointed to the largely ceremonial post of Inspector-General of the Defense Ministry. Following the Prague Spring , Konev headed a delegation that visited Czechoslovakia in May 1968 to celebrate the anniversary of the Soviet victory during World War II. After Stalin's death, Konev returned to prominence. He became a key ally of the new party leader Nikita Khrushchev , being entrusted with

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