Frunze Military Academy
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The M. V. Frunze Military Academy, or in full the Military Order of Lenin and the October Revolution, Red Banner, Order of Suvorov Academy in the name of M. V. Frunze, was a military academy of the So
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Mikhail Frunze, a posthumous 1929 portrait by Isaak Brodsky. Commandant of the academy between 1924 and 1925, and subsequently its namesake.
Georgy Zhukov and Ivan Konev in 1943, both graduates of the academy
Soviet troops and officers in 1981. By the 1980s many of the higher-ranking officers in the Soviet Ground Forces were graduates of the academy
Ivan Konev
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Ivan Stepanovich Konev was a Soviet general and Marshal of the Soviet Union who led Red Army forces on the Eastern Front during World War II, responsible for taking much of Axis-occupied Eastern Europ
Frunze Military Academy
…World War a total of twenty-four academy graduates had commands of either fronts or armies. Among them were marshals Georgy Zhukov, Leonid Govorov, Ivan Konev, Rodion Malinovsky, Kirill Meretskov, Fyodor Tolbukhin, Konstantin Rokossovsky, army generals Andrey Yeryomenko, Ivan Bagramyan, and generals Hamazasp…
Konev in 1945
Residents of Prague greet Marshal Konev upon the arrival of the Red Army on 9 May 1945
Ivan Konev (front row, 1st from left) at the Victory Parade, 24 June 1945