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Semyon Timoshenko - definition of Semyon Timoshenko in Encyclopedia (713 words) |
 | Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko (Russian: Семён Константинович Тимошенко) (February 6, 1895-March 31, 1970), Soviet military commander, was the senior professional officer of the Red Army at the beginning of the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. |
| Timoshenko was born into a peasant family at Frumanka, near Odessa in the southern Ukraine, and was drafted into the army of the Russian Empire in 1915. |
| Timoshenko was a competent but traditionalist military commander, who saw the urgent need to modernise the Red Army if it was to fight the expected war against Nazi Germany. |
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