Semyon Timoshenko Politician

Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko (Russian: Семён Константи́нович Тимоше́нко, Semën Konstantinovič Timošenko; Ukrainian: Семе́н Костянти́нович Тимоше́нко, Semen Kostiantynovych Tymoshenko) (18 February [O.S. 6 February] 1895 – 31 March 1970) was a Soviet military commander and senior professional officer of the Red Army at the beginning of the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939.

Personal facts

Semyon Timoshenko
Alias (AKA)Tymoshenko Semen
Birth dateFebruary 18, 1895
Birth place
Furmanivka , Bessarabia , Russian Empire , Bessarabia Governorate , Furmanka
Date of deathMarch 31, 1970
Place of death
Soviet Union , Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

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military operations
Russian Civil War
Eastern Front (World War II)
Winter War
World War I
Polish–Soviet War
military branch
Soviet Army
Imperial Russian Army
military command
Kiev Military District
Belorussian Military District
Northwestern Front
military rank
Marshal of the Soviet Union
officePeople's Commissar for Defense of the Soviet Union
party
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
service end1960
service start1914
successor

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External resources

  1. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/theartofwar/prop/personalities/INF3_0084.htm