Mikhail Petrovich Kirponos (Russian: Михаи́л Петро́вич Кирпоно́с, Ukrainian: Михайло Петрович Кирпонос, Mykhailo Petrovych Kyrponos; 12 January 1892 –...

formations of Kirponos, being deployed in the western areas, were not facing the danger of the German Panzer forces on the outer flanks. Kirponos was aware...

which included the Southwestern Front commanded by Colonel General Mikhail Kirponos and Southern Front commanded by General Ivan Tyulenev. The 6th army...

(counterintelligence; which later became SMERSH) of the Southwestern Front under Mikhail Kirponos and was taken a POW after the collapse of Soviet defense of Kiev. Thrice...

that Kirponos had foreshadowed in his arguments with Zhukov about the wisdom of the counter-attack at Dubno. The confrontation between Kirponos and Zhukov...

the 9th Mechanized Corps, as part of M.I. Potapov's 5th Army under Mikhail Kirponos, commander of the Kiev Military District, which would later be renamed...

Barbarossa. At the outbreak of war with Germany, the Front was commanded by Mikhail Kirponos and contained the Soviet 5th, 6th, 26th, and 12th Armies along the...

Pavlov Western Special Military District until 22 June. General Colonel Mikhail Kirponos Kiev Special Military District until 22 June. General Colonel Ivan...

the troops could be surrounded. On September 10, Colonel General Mikhail Kirponos, commander of the troops of the front, reported to the Chief of the...

Mikhail Kirponos – was reformed to create the Soviet Southwestern Front. At 2300 the same day, a Stavka directive issued from Moscow ordered Kirponos...

May 1940) Semyon Timoshenko (January–June 1940) Lieutenant General Mikhail Kirponos (June 1940–January 1941) Lieutenant General Markian Popov (January–June...

Bagramyan and his commander, General Mikhail Kirponos, believed an invasion by Germany was inevitable. However, Kirponos chose to ignore Bagramyan's belief...

Nikolai Volkov as General Mikhail Kirponos. Aleksandr Martinov as General Ivan Kopetz. Boris Scherbakov as General Mikhail Romanov. Valeri Yurchenko as...

Military District Commander of the Northwestern Front 1940 Succeeded by Mikhail Kirponos as Commander of the Leningrad Military District Preceded by - Chairman...

air. But the Soviet commander in northern Ukraine, Colonel-General Mikhail Kirponos, was one of the better Soviet generals, and he commanded the Red Army's...

stem the gap, but without success. The Commander Southwestern Front, Mikhail Kirponos, decided to halt this with an attack into the flank of Panzer Group...

(1938–1940) General of the Army Georgy Zhukov (1940–1941) Colonel General Mikhail Kirponos (1941) Lieutenant General Vsevolod Yakovlev (1941) The District was...

R. R. Tolkien, English professor and writer (d. 1973) January 12 – Mikhail Kirponos, Soviet general (d. 1941) January 14 Martin Niemöller, German theologian...

District, after someone, most likely the commander of the Kiev district, Mikhail Kirponos, had ordered troops on the border to occupy forward positions. Zhukov...

invasion, orders went out from headquarters Southwestern Front under Mikhail Kirponos to the mechanized corps to deploy forward as quickly as possible. The...

Special Military District Southwestern Front (I) (21.6.41. – 12.7.42.) Mikhail Kirponos, Semyon Timoshenko, Fyodor Kostenko split between the Southern Front...

commissioned. Born: Dale Chihuly, glass sculptor, in Tacoma, Washington Died: Mikhail Kirponos, 49, Soviet Ukrainian general, Commander of the Southwestern Front...

Mechanized Army in 1946. 38th Army 4 August 1941 1992 Erickson says Mikhail Kirponos ordered this Army to form to hold the Cherkassy bridgehead, on the...

sent to Fliegerkorps I. The Southwestern Front under the command of Mikhail Kirponos had offered severe resistance to Army Group South, under von Rundstedt...

battles and destroyed the Red Army's forces in the border area. In 1930, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, a prominent military theorist in tank warfare in the interwar...

was designed to "cut off enemy communications with the rear." Lt.-Gen. Mikhail Grigoryevich Yefremov's 33rd Army aided by Gen. Belov's 1st Cavalry Corps...

driving a 40 km wide wedge between the Soviet 6th and 5th Armies. Mikhail Kirponos, commander of the Southwestern Front, ordered both armies to counterattack...

neighboring village in the outskirts of Kiev. Southwestern Front commander Mikhail Kirponos sent in the 3rd Airborne Corps for a counterattack. On 6 August, Zholudev...

Fred Karno, English music hall impresario (b. 1866) September 20 – Mikhail Kirponos, Soviet general (b. 1892) October 5 – Louis Brandeis, U.S. Supreme...

Lenin's and Stalin's secret police. People such as the old Bolsheviks Mikhail Sergeevich Kedrov and Felix Dzerzhinsky at the time the VCheka chairman...