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The site was supplemented with the information about people. |
29 July / 2003 |
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Models of T-70, T-60, pz-2, pz-3, pz-4 were added. |
25 July / 2003 |
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Separate German and Finnish "Commanders" pages added via the main glossary page, and also added to the filtering system, now you filter your serach through the Personality like before it was possible with Weaponary. |
18 July / 2003 |
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Adding detailed drawing for the Pz IV D, fixed a few mistakes and measure moment on the frontal projection, and now Front projection available in PDF format for the print or detailed view. |
14 July / 2003 |
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Adding detailed drawing for the Pz IV (D), fixed a few mistakes and measure moment on the frontal projection, and now Front projection available in PDF format for the print or detailed view. |
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The Germans called the Orel Bulge “the dagger, directed to the heart of Russia”. |
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In July and August consumption of ammunition of the Wehrmacht forces at Soviet front reached the maximum in the period of WWII. That supply of ammunition was 90,000 tons greater than the standard one. |
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Vladimir Kolpakchi, General
(1899-1961)
Kolpakchi was born in 1899 in Kiev.
He was on military service from 1916, in 1918 joined the Red Army. During the Civil war Kolpakchi as a private soldier fought for Petrograd, and having became a commander of a company and a battalion, he fought for Voznesensk and Odessa (1920), took part in Kronshtadt revolt.
Kolpakchi graduated from Frunze Military Academy in 1928, High Academic Courses attached to the Military Academy of High Staff (1951).
Before WWII Kolpakchi held the posts of a commander of a rifle regiment, a commander of staff, a commander of a rifle division, a Deputy of a Staff Commander of Byelorussian command. Kolpakchi participated in the national-patriotic war in Spain in 1936-1938, he was at the head of 12th Rifle Corps, lead the HQ of Kharkov command.
During the Great Patriotic War Kolpakchi led the HQ of 18th Army, he was in command of 18th Army, in 1942 – the Command of the HQ of the Bryansk front. Then he fulfilled the duties of the Deputy of the Commander of South-West front, of 4th Shock troops, the Commander of the Reserve Army, 62nd Army, the Deputy of the Commander of 1st Guards Army, the Commander of 30th Army, 10th Guards Army. In 1943 Kolpakchi was given the post of the Commander of 63th Army, in 1944 – the Commander of the HQ of 2nd Byelorussian front, the Commander of 69th Army.
Armies under Kolpakchi’s command fought at South, South-West, Kalinin, Stalingrad, Don, Central, 1st and 2nd Byelorussian fronts, they took part in defense of Moscow, Donbass, Stalingrad, in Rzhev-Vyazemsky, Orel, Bryansk and other military operations.
After the war Kolpakchi continued to carve out his military career. He died in aviation accident in 1961.
Kolpakchi was given the rank of the Hero of the USSR and 3 orders of Lenin, 3 orders of the Red Banner, 3 orders of Suvorov (I) and others.
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Vladimir Kolpakchi, Sixty Third Army Commander |
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Alexey Antonov, General
Chief of Soviet High Command
Ivan Bagramian, Army General
11th Guard Army Commander
Ivan Konev, Marshal
Steppe Front Commander
Konstantin Rokossovsky, General
Central Front Commander
Pavel Rotmistrov, General
5th Guards Tank Army Commander
Nikolay Vatutin, General
Voronezh Front Commander
Vasily Badanov, Lieutenant-General
Fourth Tank Army Commander
Pavel Belov, Lieutenant-General
61th Army Commander
Ivan Boldin, Lieutenant-General
Commander of Fiftieth Army
Ivan Chistyakov, General
6th Guard Army Commander
Ivan Feduninsky, Lieutenant-General
Commander of Elevens Army
Alexander Gorbatov, Lieutenant-General
Third Army Commander
Vladimir Kolpakchi, Lieutenant-General
Sixty Third Army Commander
Markian Popov, Colonel-General
Bryansk Front Commander
Pavel Ribalko, Lieutenant-General
Third Guard Tank Army Commander
Prokofiy Romanenko, Lieutenant-General
48th Army Commander
Vasily Sokolovsky, Сolonel-General
Commander of the Western front
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