Zhukov G.K. (1896-1974), military commander, Marshal

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ZHUKOV Georgy Konstantinovich (1896-1974), Soviet military commander, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1943), Hero of the Soviet Union (1939, 1944, 1945, 1956). Graduated from the courses of the Supreme Chief of Staff of the Revolutionary Committee of the Russian Army (1930). In January - July 1941 served as Chief of General Staff of the Revolutionary Committee of the Russian Army, from June 23 - member of the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief’s Office, from August 1942, First Deputy of the People’s Commissar of Defence and Deputy Supreme Commander-in-Chief, From 11 September to 10 October 1941, Commander of the Leningrad Front. He was appointed at a time when the situation was severely deteriorating with the task of preventing the seizure of Leningrad by German troops. The efficient mobilisation enabled to maintain occupied positions and the organise a durable defence. He put the civilians of Leningrad in an extremely severe condition by dispatching 87% of the antiaircraft facilities, protecting the city from German air-raids and prohibiting them to use provisions, fuel and medicine from the strategic stocks. While carrying out various manoeuvres disregarded casualties and committed to battle irregular units and formations. He attempted to lift the blockade of the Leningrad in September 1941 from the direction of Sinyavino, which failed. On the stabilisation of the situation around Leningrad in October 1941 he was called back to Moscow. In January 1943 Zhukov co-ordinated operations of the Leningrad and Volkhov fronts in the breakthrough of the blockade. In 1975 an avenue in the South-West of St.Petersburg was named after Zhukov (Marshala Zhukova Avenue). In 1995 a monument to Zhukov was unveiled in Moscow Park of Victory (Park Pobedy), (sculptor Y.Y. Neiman, architect F.A. Gepner).

Work: Recollections and Ruminations. Moscow 1995.

References: Пономарев А. Н. Роль Г. К. Жукова в защите Ленинграда и Москвы // Петербургские чтения-97. СПб., 1997. С. 322-325; Карпов В. В. Маршал Жуков: Его соратники и противники в дни войны и мира. М., 2002.

G. V. Kalashnikov. Gepner Filipp Aronovich
Neiman Yan Yanovich
Zhukov Georgy Konstantinovich
Marshala Zhukova Ave/Saint Petersburg, city
Воспоминания и размышления. 12-е изд. М., 1995
Пономарев А. Н. Роль Г. К. Жукова в защите Ленинграда и Москвы // Петербургские чтения-97. СПб., 1997
Карпов В. В. Маршал Жуков: Его соратники и противники в дни войны и мира. М., 2002 Leningrad Front
Volkhov Front
Breaking of the Siege (1943)
1995