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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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From April to June 1943 a great work has been done at the Kursk Bulge: powerful line of defense, 300 km deep from front line and composed of 8 firing lines, has been created. Trenches and communications were stretched out to 10,000 km.
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Germany lost 136 generals, which averages out to be 1 dead General every 2 weeks. |
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Ivan Konev, Marshal
(1897-1973)
Konev led the armies which swept over the Ukraine, Poland, Germany, and Czechoslovakia. He graduated from the Frunze Military Academy in 1926 and then had special training there. In August 1941 he served in the Smolensk sector and the from October 1941 to 1942 Konev was Commander of the Kalinin Front and he resisted the German advance on Moscow.
Konev displayed enormous competence in manipulating large-scale forces in the complex operations that characterized fighting on the Eastern Front; like his fellow generals in the emerging Soviet leadership, he was a master of deception and combined arms operations. In 1943 he was in command of the Steppe Front that remained on the defensive during the Battle of Kursk in July, but his troops then led the Soviet advances that reconquered most of the western Ukraine and hustled the Germans back across the Dnieper. In 1944-1945 he commanded the First Ukrainian Front, which played a major role in the destruction of the German Army Group North Ukraine.
Konev's forces then drove through central Poland and on into Silesia as the great winter offensive of 1945 unfolded. Konev's troops got to the German capital, but the Soviet high command marked the boundary line between fronts just to the south of the Reichstag, so that Zhukov's men received the honor of hoisting the hammer and sickle over the shattered ruins.
Konev served in the early Cold War period as commander in chief, land forces (1946-1955), and then briefly as deputy minister of defense and supreme commander of Warsaw Pact forces before ill health forced his retirement.
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Ivan Konev, Steppe Front Commander |
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Other persons |
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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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