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Semyon Timoshenko
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Soviet military commander (1895-1970)
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Semyon Timoshenko was a Soviet military officer and politician who served as a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Born in Furmanivka in 1895, he held the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union and was a citizen of the Russian Empire, the Ukrainian People's Republic, and the Soviet Union. He participated in conflicts including the WWI Eastern Front, the Russian Civil War, the Winter War, and the Eastern Front.
Timoshenko served as People's Commissar for Defense of the Soviet Union and commanded the Belorussian Military District and the Kyiv Military District. He was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and participated in the 18th, 19th, 20th, and 21st Congresses of the party. His awards included the Hero of the Soviet Union, the Order of Lenin, the Order of the Red Banner, and the Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945". He died in Moscow in 1970 and was buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis.
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,795x
- The International HapMap Project
· 2003 · cited 4,925x
- Experimental and theoretical challenges in the search for the quark–gluon plasma: The STAR Collaboration's critical assessment of the evidence from RHIC collisions
· 2005 · cited 2,907x
- LXVI. <i>On the correction for shear of the differential equation for transverse vibrations of prismatic bars</i>
· 1921 · cited 2,220x
- Cross-national prevalence and risk factors for suicidal ideation, plans and attempts
· 2008 · cited 2,212x
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Quotes
- “It is possible that the Germans will attack, and it is necessary that the fleet be in readiness.”
- “No actions are to be taken against the Germans without our consent.”
- “We have fine troops, they are inured.”
- “We'll spin them out like a bobbin thread.”
- “We intend to check up on the fitness of our small units...If each such particle attains real efficiency and brings genuine military skill to our large units, our troops, should they be called upon to fight, will carry out their operations without sustaining heavy losses.”
- “It is necessary to keep in mind the possibility of simultaneously conducting two, if not three, offensive operations of various fronts on a theater of war with the intention of strategically shaking the enemy's entire combat capability as extensively as possible.”
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Encyclopedic overview
Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko (18 February [O.S. 6 February] 1895 – 31 March 1970) was a Soviet military commander, Marshal of the Soviet Union, and one of the most prominent Red Army commanders during the Second World War.
Born to a Ukrainian family in Bessarabia, Timoshenko was drafted into the Imperial Russian Army and saw action in the First World War as a cavalryman. On the outbreak of the 1917 Russian Revolution he joined the Red Army. He served with distinction during the Russian Civil War of 1917 to 1922 and the subsequent Polish–Soviet War of 1919 to 1921, which brought him into Vladimir Lenin's and Joseph Stalin's favour. Rapidly rising through the ranks, Timoshenko held several regional commands throughout the 1930s and survived the Great Purge of 1936 to 1938. He led the Ukrainian Front during the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939. In early 1940, Timoshenko took over the command of Soviet troops in the Winter War in Finland from Kliment Voroshilov and turned the tide for the Red Army. In May 1940, he was named a Marshal of the Soviet Union and the People's Commissar for Defence. In the latter capacity, he took steps to modernise the Red Army and to prepare for a likely war with Nazi Germany.
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