In the Second World War, the four-year-long Soviet-German war was an unprecedented war for mankind, whether it was the Battle of Moscow or the Battle of Stalingrad, the Soviet union and Germany invested thousands of tanks, aircraft, and artillery, all of which were iron and blood contests in the torrent of steel. As the main force against German fascism, the Soviet Union, countless excellent commanders emerged. They played an important role in the various theaters of operations on the Eastern Front, earning many honors and prestige. These ten are only some of them, but they are the most elite ten.
Wearing a marshal's hat and his chest full of military merit badges, he stood on Red Square with his head held high and inspected the Soviet army... This distinguished marshal was Georgi Zhukov, known as the "god of war" of the Soviet Union.
Zhukov was born on December 21, 1896 in Kaluga. In August 1918, he joined the Red Army in Moscow. He joined the Bolshevik Party the following year. In June 1941, after the outbreak of the Soviet-German War, he became a member of the headquarters of the Supreme Command. He successively served as Commander of the Reserve Front, Commander of the Leningrad Front, Commander of the Western Front, First Deputy People's Commissar of Defense and Deputy Commander of the Supreme High Command, Commander of the 1st Ukrainian Front, and Commander of the 1st Belorussian Front. In January 1943, he was promoted to Marshal of the Soviet Union. He participated in the formulation and implementation of the strategic plan of the High Command, as well as the Battle of Moscow, the Battle of Stalingrad, the Battle of Kursk, the Battle of Ukraine on the right bank of the Dnieper River, the Battle of Belarus, the Battle of vistula-Oder, the Battle of Berlin, etc. On May 8, 1945, on behalf of the Soviet Union, he accepted the surrender of fascist Germany. He officially retired in March 1958. He died on June 18, 1974.
On the battlefield of the world war, there are many brave and good generals; however, there are few brave generals with diplomatic careers. One such general in the Red Army of World War II was Marshal Vasily Ivanovich Trikov of the same age as the Century.
Trikov was born on 12 February 1900 in the town of Sherebriane Yeprud and joined the Red Army in 1918. At the beginning of the war, he served as a military attaché at the Soviet Embassy in China and a general military adviser of the Soviet Union to the Chinese government. From 1942 onwards, he served as commander of the 1st Army of the Reserve, commander of the Campaign Cluster of the 6th Army, commander of the 6th Army, and commander of the 8th Guards Army. He led the troops to participate in a series of major battles, including the Battle of Berlin. Twice awarded the title of "Hero of the Soviet Union". He was formerly ranked lieutenant general during the war, but was promoted to general in 1944. In March 1955, he was promoted to Marshal of the Soviet Union. He died on March 18, 1982.
Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky, during the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union during World War II, was known as one of the troikas of the Soviet Army, along with Zhukov and Konev. He was calm-headed and calm, and he was not alarmed by chaos, and he made many achievements in the adversity period of the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, and was praised by posterity as a "hero of adversity".
Rokossovsky was born on December 9, 1896 in the city of Luki. He successively entered the advanced training class for cavalry commanders and the senior chief training class of the Frunze Military Academy. In July 1941, he was appointed commander of the 16th Army. After that, he served as commander of the Bryansk Front, the commander of the Don Front, the commander of the Central Front, the commander of the Belarusian Front, the commander of the 1st Belorussian Front, and the commander of the 2nd Belorussian Front. In February 1944, he was promoted to Marshal of the USSR. On June 22, 1945, he was ordered to preside over the Moscow Victory Parade. The heavy battles organized and commanded (or participated in the organization and command) mainly include: the Battle of Smolensk, the Battle of Moscow, the Battle of Stalingrad, the Battle of Kursk, the Battle of Belarus, the Battle of East Prussia, the Battle of East Pomerania, the Battle of Berlin, etc. He died on August 3, 1968.
Alexander Mikhailovich Vasilevsky was a prominent Soviet military strategist, commander-in-chief, and marshal of the Soviet Union. Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Army in World War II, instructor of the Stalingrad counteroffensive, reconquest of Crimea and destroyer of Kaliningrad, the most talented general outside the Soviet Army's troika. His memoir "The Cause of a Lifetime" is of high reference value for the study of the strategic decision-making and combat deployment of the Supreme Command Of the Soviet Army during World War II.
Vasilevsky was born on September 18, 1895 in the russian town of Novogorlickha. In September 1915, he graduated from the crash course of the Alexei Military School. Joined the Red Army after the January Revolution. In August 1941, he was appointed Deputy Chief of the General Staff and Head of the Operations Department of the General Staff. In May 1942, he was appointed Chief of the General Staff. During his tenure as Chief of the General Staff, he presided over the formulation of major soviet campaign plans and their detailed drafting, led the solution of the problem of supporting personnel, materials and technical equipment needed by all aspects of the army, and coordinated the campaign operations of multiple fronts as the chief of the general staff or the representative of the base camp. From October 1942, he also served as Deputy People's Commissar for National Defense. After the Battle of Stalingrad, he was ordered to coordinate the Battle of Ostrogosk Rosso by the Voronezh Front in 1943 on the upper Don River. In the summer of 1943, in the Battle of Kursk, the Voronezh Front and the Steppe Front were organized in concert. In the autumn of that year, he led and implemented the campaign plans of the Southern Front and the Southwestern Front to liberate Donbass, as well as the campaign plans of the 4th Ukrainian Side, the Army at Northern Tavriya. In 1943, he was awarded the rank of Marshal of the USSR. From January to February 1944, the German forces were completely annihilated in Crimea. In June 1944, he commanded the 1st Baltic Front and the 3rd Belorussian Front in the Battle of Belarus. He died on December 5, 1977.
As one of the field troikas of the Soviet Army, the keen and correct intuition of Ivan Stepanovich Konev in the military is rare. He was adept at infantry and artillery coordination, and was able to perfectly combine powerful artillery firepower with unexpected infantry attacks at high speed. He fought a classic series of attacks after 1943. Moreover, as a political commissar, he had Zhukov's incomparable advantages in motivating morale and ideological work.
Koniev was born on December 28, 1897 in Lodzeino, Kiev District. In 1936, he graduated from the Thousand Volts Ryushi Military Academy as a division commander. In June 1941, he was appointed commander of the Soviet 19th Army. In September, he was promoted to general and successively served as Commander of the Western Front, Commander of the Kalinin Front, Commander of the Western Front, Commander of the Northwestern Front, Commander of the Steppe Front, Commander of the 2nd Ukrainian Front, and Commander of the 1st Ukrainian Front. He organized and commanded (or participated in the organization and command) of major battles: the Battle of Kalinen, the Battle of Kursk, the Battle of Korsun-Shevchenkovsky, the Battle of vistula-Oder, the Battle of Berlin, and the Battle of Prague. In February 1944, he was promoted to Marshal of the USSR. He died on May 21, 1973.
Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovsky was a Soviet military leader and Marshal of the Soviet Union, who led the Soviet Army in World War II, participated in the command of the Stalingrad Offensive and Defense Campaign, defeated Nazi Germany, and led the Soviet Red Army into northeast China at the end of World War II, capturing nearly 600,000 Japanese Kwantung Army and China's "last emperor" Puyi.
Malinovsky was born on 11 November 1898 in Odessa. In 1919, the Red Army was voluntarily added. In March 1941, he was appointed commander of the 48th Infantry Corps. After that, he served as commander of the 6th Army, commander of the Southern Front, commander of the 66th Army, deputy commander of the Voronezh Front, commander of the 2nd Guards Army, commander of the Southern Front, commander of the Southwestern Front, commander of the 3rd Ukrainian Front, and commander of the 2nd Ukrainian Front. The major battles he organized and commanded (or participated in) mainly included the Battle of Stalingrad, the Battle of Zaporozhye, the Battle of Nikopol-Krivorug, the Battle of Bereznegovatorye-Snigilevka, the Battle of Odessa, the Battle of Iasi-Kishnev, the Battle of Budapest, the Battle of Vienna, and the Battle of the Far East. In 1944 he was promoted to Marshal of the USSR. He died on March 31, 1967.
Ivan Danilovich Chernyakhovsky, military chief of the Soviet Union, commander-in-chief, general, twice hero of the Soviet Union. He has been awarded 1 Order of Lenin, 4 Medals of the Red Banner, 2 Medals of Suvorov 1st Class, 1 Kutuzov Medal of the First Class and 1 Pogdan Khmelnytsky Medal of the First Class, with several medals. He is a "wizard" who is a "prodigy" who is based on seeking truth from facts, is resourceful and decisive, and has rich experience in organizing and commanding large corps of fighters, is good at concentrating a large number of troops in the main direction of assault, and is good at using tank corps, interspersing detours, dividing and encircling.
Chernyakhovsky was born on June 29, 1906. He joined the Soviet Army in 1924. In March 1941, he was the commander of the 28th Tank Division of the Special Military District on the Baltic Sea Coast. He later served as commander of the 18th Tank Army, commander of the 60th Army, commander of the Western Front, and commander of the 3rd Belorussian Front. He died on 18 February 1945 after being seriously wounded near the polish city of Mersac.
Ivan Hristovich Bagramyan was born in Elisabeth Pol on 20 November 1897. In December 1920, he volunteered for the Soviet Army. Graduated from the Cavalry Commanders Refresher Course (1925), the Senior Chiefs Refresher Course (1931), the Frunze Military Academy (1934) and the General Staff Military Academy (1938). During the Great Patriotic War, he served successively as Deputy Chief of Staff and Chief of Operations of the Southwestern Front, Chief of Staff of the Southwestern Front (later Chief of Staff of the Southwestern General Headquarters), Commander of the 16th Army, Commander of the 11th Army of the Guards, Commander of the 1st Baltic Coast, Deputy Commander of the 3rd Belorussian Front and Commander-in-Chief of the Zemland Army Cluster, and Commander-in-Chief of the 3rd Belorussian Front. He died in 1982.
Fedor Ivanovich Tolbukhin was born on 16 June 1894. He joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1938. He joined the Soviet Army in 1918. Graduated from the School of a Thousand Staff Officers (1919), the Senior Command Cadet (1927, 1930) and the Frunze Military Academy (1934). From 1941 onwards, he served successively as Chief of Staff of the Transcaucasian Front, Chief of Staff of the Caucasus Front, Chief of Staff of the Crimean Front, Deputy Commander of the Stalingrad Military District, Commander of the 57th Army, Commander of the 68th Army, Commander of the Southern Front, Commander of the 4th Ukrainian Front, and Commander of the 3rd Ukrainian Front. He died on October 17, 1949.
Andrei Ivanovich Yelyommenko, born on October 2, 1892, joined the Soviet Army in 1918. Graduated from the Higher Cavalry School (1923), the Cadet Course for Commanders (1925), the First Commander Training Course at the Political Academy (1931) and the Frunze Military Academy (1935). Since July 1941, he has successively served as deputy commander of the Western Front, commander of the 4th Assault Army, commander of the South-Eastern Front, commander of the Southern Front, commander of the Kalinin Front, commander of the 1st Baltic Front, commander of the Coastal Army, commander of the 2nd Baltic Front, and commander of the 4th Ukrainian Front, fully demonstrating his extraordinary military ability. He died on February 18, 1970.