Biography of Konev Ivan

Born on December 16, year in the village of Lodeino, Nikolsky district of the Vologda province of the Podosinovsky district of the Kirov region in the family of a peasant. He graduated from the Zemstvo school in the neighboring village of Pushma in the year. From the age of 12 he worked as an alloy of forest, a laborer on a forest exchange. In the spring of the year, he was drafted into the Russian imperial army.

Member of the 1st World War. He served in the 2nd heavy artillery brigade Moscow, then graduated from the educational artillery team. In the year, the junior fireworks of the 2nd separate artillery division, non-commissioned officer Konev, was sent to the Southwestern Front, participated in the unsuccessful July offensive of the Russian army. Member of the February Revolution of the Year in Moscow and the October Revolution of the Year in Kyiv.

Demobilized in December, returned to his native village. In February, Ivan Konev was elected county military commissar in the city of Nikolsk Vologda province, also was the chairman of the district committee of the RCP B and the commander of the county revolutionary volunteer detachment. Being a delegate of the fifth All -Russian Congress of Soviets, July participated in the suppression of the uprising of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries in Moscow.

In the second half of the year, he achieved admission to the Red Army. Kolchak, chieftain G. Semenov, General Diterichs and Japanese interventionists. From the year-the military commissar of the 5th Infantry Brigade in the 2nd Verkhneudinsky Rifle Division, the military commissar of this division, the military commissar of the headquarters of the People's Army of the Far Eastern Republic.

After the end of the Civil War in the Far East - from December - the military commissar of the Primorsky Rifle Corps. Since August, the commissar and the head of the political department of the Nizhny Novgorod Rifle Division. Frunze in the year.

Since the year - the commander of the Rifle Red Banner Regiment in the Nizhny Novgorod Rifle Division. In January - March of the year - commandant of the city of Moscow. Since March, the assistant commander of the Rifle Division. Since December, the commander and military commander of the Rifle Division in the Belarusian Military District, since November - the 2nd Belorussian Rifle Division in this district.

In July, he was appointed senior adviser to the Mongol People's Army, and when at the beginning of the year the Soviet troops in Mongolia were united in a special rifle corps, Konev was appointed his commander. Since July, the commander of the 2nd Red Banner Army, deploying in the Far East the headquarters in the year in the year, commanded the troops of the Trans -Baikal Military District, and from January 13 - the North Caucasus Military District.

The Great Patriotic War, Lieutenant General I. Konev, began the commander of the Army, appointed the troops of the Western Front from the court and the execution of Konev, Savior Zhukov, who contributed to the appointment of Konev as deputy commander of the Western Front of October as commander of the Kalinin Front from August 26 to February 27, the newly-well-known Mars and unsuccessfully commander of the Western Front and unsuccessfully He carried out the Zhizdrinsky operation, for which he was a second time with the post of the front commander.

He commanded the troops of the North-Western Front in the Battle of the Battle of the Steppe Front of General Konev the commander from July 9 liberated Belgorod and Kharkov. Since October 20, Konev is the commander of the 2nd Ukrainian Front. At the head of his troops, he spent Nizhneadroovskaya, Korsun-Shevchenkovskaya, Kirovograd, Uman-Botoshansk offensive operations.

From May 16 to the end of the war - commander of the troops of the 1st Ukrainian Front. In July-August, they defeated the Army Group Northern Ukraine, Field Marshal E. The fall of the year, the front carried out the Carpathian-Trading operation, entering the territory of Czechoslovakia. In January of the year, the front troops during the Vistula-Oder operation as a result of a rapid blow and bypass maneuver prevented the retreating enemy to destroy the industry of Silesia, which was of great economic importance for friendly Poland.

Then there were the Lower Silesian and Upper Silesian operations, the brilliant actions of the front troops in the Berlin operation and the final chord of war in Europe-the Prague operation. By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of June 1, for exemplary implementation of the combat missions of the Supreme High Command on the leadership of operations at the front of the fight against German invaders in the Prague area and south of Berlin and the successes of the Soviet Union, Konev, Ivan Stepanovich, was awarded the second medal of the Golden Star.

After the war on June 10, Marshal Konev was appointed Commander -in -Chief of the Central Group of Troops and the Supreme Commissioner for Austria. From July to March I. from November to March - commander of the troops of the Carpathian Military District. From May to June - First Deputy Minister of Defense - Commander -in -Chief of the United Armed Forces of the States - Participants of the Warsaw Treaty.

However, in connection with the erupted Berlin crisis in August, he was recalled with this honorary but decorative position and was appointed commander in chief of the Soviet troops in Germany. Military titles:.