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Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov [a] (Russian: Георгий Константинович Жуков, pronounced [ɡʲɪˈorɡʲɪj kənstɐnʲˈtʲinəvʲɪdʑ‿ˈʐukəf] ⓘ; 1 December 1896 – 18 June 1974) was a Soviet general who served as a top commander during World War II and achieved the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union.
Close to 1,000,000 Soviet soldiers of the 1st Belorussian Front (including 78,556 soldiers of the Polish 1st Army), commanded by Marshal Georgy Zhukov, attacked the position known as the "Gates of Berlin". They were opposed by about 110,000 soldiers of the German 9th Army, [4] commanded by General Theodor Busse, as part of the Army Group Vistula.
During the first two weeks of April, the Soviets performed their fastest Front redeployment of the war. General Georgy Zhukov concentrated his 1st Belorussian Front (1BF), which had been deployed along the Oder river from Frankfurt in the south to the Baltic, into an area in front of the Seelow Heights. The 2BF moved into the positions being ...
The Race to Berlin was a competition between Soviet Marshals Georgy Zhukov and Ivan Konev to be the first to enter Berlin during the final months of World War II in Europe.. In early 1945, with Germany's defeat inevitable, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin set his two marshals in a race to capture Berlin. [1]
General Georgy Zhukov, the Chief of the General Staff of the Red Army, upon receiving information from the front line, concluded that the movement of the Army Group Center to the east had stopped and that the biggest strategic threat to the Soviet forces was to the Central Front, where the movement of German mechanized forces to the south could ...
Lieutenant General of NKVD Ivan A. Bogdanov [Front of Reserve Armies] (14–30 July, 1941) General Georgy K. Zhukov (August–September 1941) Marshal Semyon M. Budenny (September – 10 October, 1941) Lieutenant General Markian M. Popov (6–15 April, 1943)
The Mongolian town of Choibalsan, in the Dornod Province, where the battle was fought, is the location of the "G. K. Zhukov Museum", dedicated to Zhukov and the 1939 battle. [89] Ulaanbaatar also has a "G. K. Zhukov Museum" with information about the battle. [90]
On February 17, 1945, by a resolution of the State Defense Committee, the following composition of the Stavka of the Supreme High Command was determined: Joseph Stalin (Supreme Commander–in–Chief), Georgy Zhukov (Deputy People's Commissar of Defense of the Soviet Union), Alexander Vasilevsky (Deputy People's Commissar of Defense), Alexey ...