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Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko (Russian: Семён Константинович Тимошенко; Ukrainian: Семен Костянтинович Тимошенко, romanized: Semen Kostiantynovych Tymoshenko; 18 February [O.S. 6 February] 1895 – 31 March 1970) was a Soviet military commander, Marshal of the Soviet Union, and one of ...
Semyon Timoshenko was a Soviet general who helped the Red Army withstand German forces during the early part of World War II. Having fought in World War I and the Russian Civil War, Timoshenko held several regional military commands during the 1930s.
Semyon Timoshenko. Semyon Timoshenko was born in Bessarabia on 18th February, 1895. At the beginning of the First World War he served as a cavalryman in the Russian Army on the Eastern Front. Timoshenko was a Bolshevik and supported the forces that overthrew Tsar Nicholas II.
Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko was a Soviet military commander, Marshal of the Soviet Union, and one of the most prominent Red Army commanders during the Second World War.
In his stead, on July 2, Stalin dispatched the top Red Army commander, Marshal Semyon K. Timoshenko, to take charge of the Western Front. Timoshenko’s reconstituted Western Front was created from second-echelon armies belonging to reserves of the high command.
Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko was a Soviet general who helped the Red Army withstand German forces during the early part of the Great Patriotic War.
Feb 12, 2017 · In 1938, he was promoted to Marshal of the Soviet Union and he was one of the few high ranking officers who escaped Stalin’s Great Purge. On September 17th, 1939, Timoshenko – in command of the 3rd Ukrainian front, crossed the Polish border and disarmed the weakened garrisons in eastern Poland.
Apr 2, 1970 · Marshal Timoshenko, who be gan his military career as a conscript in Czar Nicholas II's army, rose to become second only to Josef Stalin in the mili tary hierarchy of the Soviet Union.
Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko (sĬmyôn´ kənstəntyē´nəvĬch tyēməshĕn´kə), 1895–1970, Soviet marshal. He served in the civil war of 1918–20 as a cavalry commander and subsequently rose in the Soviet army.
Dec 12, 2011 · Timoshenko prepared carefully, then did what any analyst would label the obvious thing: suspending the fruitless fight to the north and launching a coordinated assault by two entire armies, the 7th and the 13th—some 600,000 men in all, supported lavishly by artillery and aircraft—against the Mannerheim Line.
