Marshal of the Soviet Union Aleksandr Vasilevsky

Aleksandr Mikhailovich Vasilevsky (also spelled Vasilievsky, Vasilyevsky, Vasilievskii etc, Russian: Александр Михайлович Василевский) (September 30, 1895 - December 5, 1977), Marshal of the Soviet Union, was the Soviet commander in the operations against Japan in 1945, and later Defence Minister. File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... September 30 is the 273rd day of the year (274th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 92 days remaining, as the final day of September. ... 1895 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... December 5 is the 339th day (340th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1977 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1977 calendar). ... Marshal of the Soviet Union Semyon Timoshenko in dress uniform The rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union (Russian: Marshal Sovietskogo Soyuza, Маршал Совет́ского Союза) was in practice the highest military rank of the Soviet Union. ... The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) (Russian: (СССР)   listen?; tr. ... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Vasilevsky was born into a prosperous peasant family near Kostroma, east of Moscow. He studied at the Superior Technical School in St. Petersburg before entering the Aleksander's Military Law Academy (Александровская военно-юридическая академия) in 1915. He served in the army of the Russian Empire as a junior staff captain in World War I. He joined the Red Army in 1918 and took part in the Russian Civil War, but his main talents were administrative, and in the 1920s he held a series of staff positions, followed by brigade and divisional commands. During this time he formed friendships with Joseph Stalin and Vyacheslav Molotov which greatly advanced his career. Kostroma (Russian: Кострома́) is a historic city in central Russia, administrative centre of the Kostroma Oblast. ... Saint Basils Cathedral Moscow (Russian/Cyrillic: Москва́, IPA:   listen?) is the capital of Russia, located on the river Moskva, and encompassing 1097. ... Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and Petrograd (Петрогра́д, 1914–1924), is a city located in Northwestern Russia on the delta of the river Neva at the east end of the Gulf of Finland... Alexander II (1818-1881) Alexander (Aleksandr) II (Russian: Александр II Николаевич) (April 17, 1818–March 13, 1881) was the Emperor (tsar) of Russia from March 2, 1855 until his assassination. ... 1915 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Imperial Russia is the term used to cover the period of Russian history from the expansion of Russia under Peter the Great, through the expansion of the Russian Empire from the Baltic to the Pacific Ocean, to the deposal of Nicholas II of Russia, the last tsar, at the start... World War I was a basically European conflict with many facets: immense human sacrifice, stalemate trench warfare, and the use of new, devastating weapons - tanks, aircraft, machineguns, and poison gas. ... Red Army flag The short forms Red Army and RKKA refer to the Workers and Peasants Red Army, (Рабоче-Крестьянская Красная Армия - Raboche-Krestyanskaya Krasnaya Armiya in Russian), the armed forces organised by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War in 1918. ... 1918 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... The Russian Civil War was fought between 1918 and 1922. ... Joseph Stalin (December 21, 1879 – March 5, 1953) was the leader of the Soviet Union from mid-1920s to his death in 1953 and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922-1953), a position which had later become that of party leader. ... Vyacheslav Molotov Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov (Russian: Вячесла́в Миха́йлович Мо́лотов) (February 25, 1890 (O.S.) (March 9, 1890 (N.S.))–November 8, 1986), Soviet politician and diplomat, was a leading figure in the Soviet government from the 1920s, when he rose to power as a protege of Joseph Stalin, to the 1950s, when he...

In 1931 Vasilievsky graduated to command of the (Volga Region) Military District (Приволжский военный округ). His friendship with Stalin and his administrative talents seem to have been the factors which kept him safe during Stalin's Great Purge, which swept through the Red Army in 1937-38. In October 1937 he was appointed a member of the General Staff, and in November 1941, after the German invasion of the Soviet Union, he succeeded Boris Shaposhnikov as Chief of the General Staff. 1931 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... For other meanings of the word Volga see Volga (disambiguation) Волга Length 3,690 km Elevation of the source 225 m Average discharge  ? m³/s Area watershed 1. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... 1937 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1938 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1937 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Original German plan Operation Barbarossa (Unternehmen Barbarossa) was the German codename for Nazi Germanys invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II that commenced on June 22, 1941. ... Marshal of the Soviet Union Boris Shaposhnikov (with Joseph Stalin, 1935) Boris Mikhailovitch Shaposhnikov (Russian: Борис Михайлович Шапошников) (October 2, 1882 - March 26, 1945), Soviet military commander, was born at Zlatoust, near Chelyabinsk in the Urals. ...

In this position Vasilievsky's great organisational skills were shown at their best. In late 1942 he was was the General Staff representative and overall supervisor of the Stalingrad Front, and the main planner of the operations there, which led to Germany's greatest defeat on the Eastern Front. The historian David Glantz identifies Vasilievsky as the real architect of victory at the Battle of Stalingrad, arguing that Georgy Zhukov's role has been overstated. Stalin seems to have shared this view, since Vasilievsky was made a Marshal of the Soviet Union in February 1943. This article is about the year. ... The Eastern Front was the theatre of combat between Nazi Germany and its allies against the Soviet Union during World War II. It was somewhat separate from the other theatres of the war, not only geographically, but also for its scale and ferocity. ... The Battle of Stalingrad was a major turning point in World War II, and is considered the bloodiest and largest battle in human history. ... Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgi Zhukov Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov (Russian: Гео́ргий Константи́нович Жу́ков) (December 1, 1896 (N.S.); November 19, 1896 (O.S.)) - June 18, 1974), Soviet military commander and politician, considered by many as one of the most successful field commanders of World War II. // Prewar career Born into a peasant... Marshal of the Soviet Union Semyon Timoshenko in dress uniform The rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union (Russian: Marshal Sovietskogo Soyuza, Маршал Совет́ского Союза) was in practice the highest military rank of the Soviet Union. ... 1943 is a common year starting on Friday. ...

Vasilevsky in Port Arthur, China, 1945

In 1943 and 1944 Vasilievsky continued to play leading organisational roles in the Soviet war effort, particularly in relation to the Battle of Kursk in July 1943. At the beginning of 1945 he was given command of the Northwestern Front as they advanced through Poland and into East Prussia. After the German surrender in May 1945, he was transferred to the Far East Front. When the Soviet Union declared war on Japan in August, he led the advance into China and Korea, Operation August Storm, defeating the Japanese Kwantung Army. File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... 1943 is a common year starting on Friday. ... 1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Battle of Kursk was a significant battle on the Eastern Front of World War II. It remains the largest armored engagement of all time, and included the most costly single day of aerial warfare in history. ... 1943 is a common year starting on Friday. ... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... East Prussia (German: Ostpreu en; Polish: Prusy Wschodnie; Russian: Восточная Пруссия — Vostochnaya Prussiya) was a province of Kingdom of Prussia, situated on the territory of former Ducal Prussia. ... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Soviet Far East Front was a front (Soviet army group) of World War II that operated in the Far East, hence its name. ... For other places called Korea, see: Korea (disambiguation) Korea (한국/韓國, ì¡°ì„ /朝鮮) is a formerly unified country, situated on the Korean Peninsula in northern East Asia, bordering on China to the northwest and Russia to the north. ... Operation August Storm was the codename for the Soviet invasion of Manchukuo, Mengjiang, Korea, the southern portion of Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, and Hokkaido. ... The Kwantung Army or Guandong Army (関東軍 Japanese: Kantōgun) was a unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that originated from a Guandong garrison established in 1906 to defend the Kwantung Leased Territory and the areas adjacent to the South Manchurian Railway. ...

In 1948 Vasilievsky returned to Moscow to become Deputy Minister for Defence, and in March 1949 he was appointed Minister for Defence. During this period he presided over the reorganisation of the Soviet armed forces from their wartime role to that of maintaining permanent forces in Central Europe and confronting the United States in the Cold War era. In 1952 he was appointed a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. Following Stalin's death in March 1953, however, he was replaced as Defence Minister by Nikolai Bulganin. Possibly his long association with Stalin was held against him: in any case he hold no further senior posts until his death in 1977. 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Saint Basils Cathedral Moscow (Russian/Cyrillic: Москва́, IPA:   listen?) is the capital of Russia, located on the river Moskva, and encompassing 1097. ... 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... Historical lands and provinces in Central Europe Central Europe is the region lying between the variously and vaguely defined areas of Eastern and Western Europe. ... This map shows two essential global spheres during the Cold War up until 1959. ... 1952 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... The 16th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China meets in 2002 The Central Committee is a leading body of an organization, most often a political party, especially Communist parties. ... The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Russian: Коммунисти́ческая Па́ртия Сове́тского Сою́за = КПСС) was the name used by the successors of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party from 1952 to 1991, but the wording Communist Party was present in the partys name since 1918 when the Bolsheviks became the All... 1953 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Nikolai Bulganin (right), with Nikita Khrushchev (centre) and Tito in Belgrade in 1955 Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin (Russian: ) (May 30, 1895 - February 24, 1975), Soviet politician, was born in Nizhny Novgorod, the son of an office worker. ... 1977 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1977 calendar). ...