Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko was a Soviet military commander, Marshal of the Soviet Union, and one of the most prominent Red Army commanders during the Second World War.
Timoshenko in the 1940s
Timoshenko and Georgy Zhukov at the maneuvers of the Kiev Military District, 1940
Monument to Timoshenko in Furmanivka, Ukraine, June 2014
Operation Barbarossa was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and several of its European Axis allies starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II. More than 3.8 million Axis troo
Semyon Timoshenko
…for Defence. In the latter capacity, he took steps to modernise the Red Army and to prepare for a likely war with Nazi Germany. On the outbreak of the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, Timoshenko was named chairman of the Stavka. Replaced by Stalin himself a month later, he went on to hold a series of important field…
Clockwise from top-left: German soldiers advance through northern Russia German flamethrower crew burns down a house in the background German Panzer IV stuck in the snow with white camouflage paint Soviet Ilyushin Il-2s over German positions near Moscow Soviet POWs on the way to prison camps Soviet soldiers fire artillery
1939 German Diplomatic passport with its holder returning after the outbreak of war two years later and being evacuated on a special train out of the USSR.
Semyon Timoshenko and Georgy Zhukov in 1940
Army general (later Marshal) Zhukov speaking at a military conference in Moscow, September 1941