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 Kirill Meretskov -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Kirill Afanasievich Meretskov ((A native or inhabitant of Russia) Russian: Кирилл Афанасьевич Мерецков) (June 7, 1897 - December 30, 1968) was a (An elected governmental council in a Communist country (especially one that is a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)) Soviet military commander.
Meretskov was released and in December 1941 he was appointed commander of the (A river in northwestern Russia flowing generally north into Lake Ladoga) Volkhov Front in the north, a position he held until February 1944.
As commander of Volkhov Front, Meretskov was able to finally halt the German offensive in the north, and prevent the Germans from completely surrounding (A city in the European part of Russia; 2nd largest Russian city; located at the head of the Gulf of Finland; former capital of Russia) Leningrad.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/K/Ki/Kirill_Meretskov.htm   (1142 words)

  
 stavka   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
According to this decree STAVKA comprised of the defence minister Marshal Semyon Timoshenko (as its president), the head of General Staff Georgy Zhukov, Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Marshal Kliment Voroshilov, Marshal Budionniy and the Secretary of the Navy admiral Kuznetsov.
The same decree organized at Stavka "the institution of permanent counsellors of Stavka comprising of comrades Marshal Kulik, Marshal Shaposhnikov, Kirill Meretskov, head of the Air Force Zhigarev, Nikolay Vatutin, head of Air Defence Voronov, Mikoyan, Kaganovich, Lavrenty Beria, Voznesenskiy, Zhdanov, Malenkov, Mekhlis".
Meretskov was subsequently released from the jail and on the same day at the end of the first week of September 1941 was called for by Stalin.
www.yourencyclopedia.net /STAVKA.html   (312 words)

  
 Read about Kirill Meretskov at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Kirill Meretskov and learn about Kirill Meretskov ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Lavrenti Beria, the head of the NKVD, accused Meretskov (falsely) of being a traitor.
In February 1944, Meretskov was transferred to the
Meretskov’s next major command was in Manchuria in 1945, in the
encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Kirill_Meretskov   (894 words)

  
 Stavka is an abbreviation for Stavka glavnogo komandovania or General...
According to this decree STAVKA comprised of the defence minister Marshal Semyon Timoshenko Semyon Timoshenko (as its president), the head of General Staff Georgy Zhukov Georgy Zhukov, Stalin Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov Vyacheslav Molotov, Marshal Kliment Voroshilov Kliment Voroshilov, Marshal Budionniy Budionniy and the Secretary of the Navy admiral Kuznetsov Kuznetsov.
Meretskov was subsequently released from the jail and on the same day at the end of the first week of September September 1941 was called for by Stalin.
STAVKA of the Main Command was reorganised into the STAVKA of the Supreme Command on July 10 July 10, 1941.
www.biodatabase.de /Stavka   (294 words)

  
 Furious Front Across Finland
General Kirill Meretskov, 42 year old commander of four Russian armies poised for invasion, would not be issued winter clothing for his troops, since the campaign would last only a few days.
And here Meretskov’s 7th Army would smash through the Finns’ 90 mile Mannerheim Line, seize Viipuri, Finland’s second largest city, and then march on to the capital Helsinki, halfway towards the western end of the Gulf of Finland.
Meretskov’s 8th Army would sap Finnish defense of the isthmus by attacking along the shores of Lake Ladoga, on the eastern side of the isthmus but still in the region known as Karelia.
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 Kirill Grigorievich Razumovsky - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Kirill Grigorievich Razumovsky   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Kirill Grigorievich Razumovsky - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Kirill Grigorievich Razumovsky.
Count Kirill Grigorievich Razumovsky, more correctly Rozumovsky, (1728-1803) was a Ukrainian Cossack who was appointed President of the Russian Academy of Sciences when he just turned 18 years old.
Kirill had several sons, of whom Count Aleksey Kirillovich (1748-1822) was the Minister of Education in 1810-16, and Prince Andrey Kirillovich (1752-1836) was the Russian ambassador in Vienna.
www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Kirill-Grigorievich-Razumovsky.html   (250 words)

  
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Lajdoner was to go to Narva to meet with Kirill Meretskov, commander of the Leningrad Military District, and sign a protocol on the deployment of Soviet troops in the republic.
Meretskov arrived in Narva at 8 a.m., telling Lajdoner that a 90,000-strong Red Army contingent would be based in the republic.
Lajdoner did not even take up the fact that the clerk who was taking dictation from Meretskov downgraded the commander-in-chief from general (the top military rank in Estonia) to division general.
english.mn.ru /english/printver.php?2005-22-25   (1515 words)

  
 Gathering Storm
Our relations with K. Meretskov who was Chief of General Staff from August 1940 were satisfactory too.
Kirill Afanasyevich Meretskov a little when he was in Spain.
Meretskov was Chief of General Staff for only a few months.
admiral.centro.ru /book01.htm   (5429 words)

  
 THE SOVIET-FINNISH WAR (1939-40)
Meretskov and Voronov had all warned that the campaign should be taken seriously".
While Meretskov was demoted to command of the 7th Army alone.
Meretskov's plan was to make these thrusts, feigning to cut Finland in two, appear so real that the Finns would use their reserves and keep them in those areas in the north long enough for the main offensive on the Mannerheim Line to develop at the end of January.
harikumar.brinkster.net /CommunistLeague/CL-FINLANDWAR90.html   (11585 words)

  
 STAVKA - SERVING THE PEOPLE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
According to this decree STAVKA comprised of the defence minister Marshal Semyon Timoshenko (as its president), the head of General Staff Georgy Zukhov, Stalin, Molotov, Marshal Vomsilov, Marshal Budionniy and the Secretary of the Navy admiral Kuznetzov.
The same decree organized at Stavka "the institution of permanent counsellors of Stavka comprising of comrades Marshal Kulik, Marshal Shaposhnikov, Kirill Meretskov, head of the Air Force Zhigarev, Nikolay Vatutin, head of Air Defence Voronov, Mikovan, Voznesenskiy, Zhdanov, Mekhlis".
STAVKA of the Main Command was reorganised into the STAVKA of the Supreme Command on July 10th, 1941.
www.cplweb.com /stavka/what.php   (403 words)

  
 Fighting the Russians in Winter: three case studies
The future marshal of the Soviet Union, Kirill Meretskov, then commander of the Leningrad Military District, which was initially responsible for the entire Soviet operation, cautioned on the eve of the invasion that serious resistance could be expected.
On 9 November Marshal Kirill Meretskov, then commanding both the Fourth and Seventh Armies, personally checked the condition of the troops who had lost the town of Tikhvin the previous day.
General Meretskov noted that he often saw men of the hastily formed Second and Fifty-ninth Shock Armies proceeding on foot, dragging their skis behind them.
www-cgsc.army.mil /carl/resources/csi/Chew/CHEW.asp   (15806 words)

  
 content   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Russian 2-Star General, believed to be the later Marshal Kirill A. Meretskov, who was the commander of the 97,000-man Soviet 14th Army responsible for the
Meretskov can bee seen wearing St. Olav in an unusual manner.
The Commander Badge is worn below the medal bar instead of the required neck ribbon and the Star of the Order on the right side of the chest instead of on the correct left side.
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 The Winter War History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Finns had to retreat fast, but they did manage to leave behind enough booby-trapped "presents" for the greedy Russian peasant soldiers.
Russian General Kirill A. Meretskov pulled up to the Mannerheim Line and stopped for ten days, due to the booby traps, making the excuse that his men "were afraid to advance." This gave the Finns some much needed time to prepare for the coming onslaught.
Finns were courageous, although this might be due to their sheer desperation.
www.relativerange.com /rrnl/rr05/russfinn.htm   (460 words)

  
 Russian Art - Stormfront White Nationalist Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Marshal Kirill Meretskov in his memoirs depicted Vlasov as a sheer "careerist" who withdrew himself from the command of the encircled army.
As the result, according to Meretskov's figures, sixteen thousand men of the encircled army escaped through a narrow (only 300 to 400 meters wide) "corridor" along the railway line, six thousand were killed in action and eight thousand were missing in action.
From the post-war search and exhumation efforts in 1980s and later it is now obvious that most of the MIAs should be presumed dead.
www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=165564   (3250 words)

  
 The Banner of Victory over Berlin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Marshal Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky commanded the parade, which was received by Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov.
Marshals — Ivan Konev, Rodion Malinovsky, Leonid Govorov, Alexander Vasilevsky and Kirill Meretskov and army generals Ivan Bagramian and Andrei Yeremenko — took part in the parade, wearing all their decorations.
Reichstag is a building in Berlin that is the meeting place of Germany’s national legislature.
archive.1september.ru /eng/2005/08/1.htm   (2337 words)

  
 Viktor M. Iskrov
We were always transferred from one division to another.
All I know that we were in the 7th Army under Kirill Meretskov.
My direct commander was Moskalenko, and he would tell: now you go to this division, get in touch with commander of this regiment.
www.mannerheim-line.com /veterans/iskrove.htm   (3556 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
He was repeatedly subjected to brutal beatings in the course of interrogation and then sent to a concentration camp, from which he was released shortly before the outbreak of war in 1941.
The same fate overtook the other military commanders mentioned by Khrushchev: Colonel-General Alexander V. Gorbatov, now commander of the Baltic Military District; Marshal Kirill A. Meretskov, now commander of the Northern Military District, and many others.
Marshal Ivan K. Bagramian is today a Deputy Minister of Defense.
www.trussel.com /hf/stalnote.htm   (5361 words)

  
 The Soviet advance into Norway
The plan was for them to reach Lakselv some 160 miles West in Norway by 15th Nov.
On the 7th Oct. however the Soviet 14th Army and Northern fleet of some 133,500 men under Field Marshall Kirill Meretskov smashed into the weakest point of the German line, the junction between the 2nd and 6th Mountain Divisions.
Soviet troops from the marine infantry brigade land at Rybachi.
www.nuav.net /soviet.html   (1025 words)

  
 Autographs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Original document, 1 page, dated 16 June 1948 printed text, rubber stamps with the
Marshal of the Soviet Union, Twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Hero of the Chech Socialist Republic Kirill MOSKALENKO (1902 - 1985).
Marshal of the Soviet Union, Hero of the Soviet Union Kirill MERETSKOV (1897 - 1968).
www.bank-notes.netfirms.com /Russia/Collectibles/Aut.htm   (787 words)

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