Biography of George Konstantinovich Zhukov

Born in the village of Strelkovka now - the village of Zhukovka, Kaluga region.

A participant in the First World War with G. in the Red Army with G. during the Civil War fought on the eastern, western and southern fronts: Red Army soldier, platoon commander, squadron. He graduated from cavalry courses in the city by commanding a cavalry squadron, regiment, brigade. Since February in June, since July, since June, Zhukov commanded the troops of the Kyiv Special Military District.

In January-July, from June 23, in the early days of the Great Patriotic War, Zhukov as a headquarters, together with the command of the South-Western Front, organized and held a counterattack on the enemy in the area of ​​Brody in order to break his attempt to break into the move to Kyiv. In August and September, G. Zhukov commanded the reserve front, whose troops in the midst of the Smolensk battle successfully conducted the first offensive operation in the Yelny region during the war.

In early September, in October G. - August. Zhukov headed the Western Front, and in February - May, under his leadership, Soviet troops, in the most difficult battles, exhausting the enemy shock groups, December 5 Thus, the Nazi plan for the "lightning -fast war" against the USSR was finally ripped off. In - gg. Zhukov coordinated the actions of the Soviet troops in the Battle of Stalingrad, with a breakthrough of the blockade of Leningrad, in the Battle of Kursk, the battle of the Dnieper.

In the city of Zhukov, the title of Marshal of the Soviet Union was awarded. In March-May, from November to May, Zhukov commanded the 1st Belorussian Front, whose troops during the Visl-Odery and Berlin operations overcame the distance from Vistula to Oder and Elbe and, together with the troops of the 1st Ukrainian Front, took Berlin. On behalf of and on behalf of the Supreme Commander -in -Chief G.

Zhukov, on May 8 in Karlshorst, he accepted the surrender of the Armed Forces of Nazi Germany. After the war, G. Zhukov is the commander in chief of the Soviet occupation forces and the chief of the Soviet military administration in Germany. Since March, G. skillfully applied the experience of war in teaching troops in the context of re -equipping them with new means of armed struggle, including nuclear weapons.

Zhukov-four times Hero of the Soviet Union, twice he was awarded the Supreme Soviet Military Order of Victory, awarded six Orders of Lenin, the Order of the October Revolution, three orders of the Red Banner, two orders of Suvorov of the 1st century.