Leonid Govorov
1897 – 1955 · aged 58
Soviet marshal (1897–1955)
- Born
- 22 Feb 1897 · Yaransky Uyezd
- Died
- 19 Mar 1955 · Moscow
Life timeline
Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.
- 22 Feb 1897BornBorn in Yaransky Uyezd
- 1914 – 1918WarWorld War I
- 1917 – 1922WarRussian Civil War
- 1939 – 1940WarWinter War
- 1940AwardOrder of the Red Star
- 1941 – 1945WarEastern Front
- 1945AwardHero of the Soviet Union
- 1945AwardOrder of Victory
- 19 Mar 1955DiedDied in Moscow
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1897 – 1955).
- 1898Spanish–American War
- 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1945World War II
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
- 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
- 19501950 FIFA World Cup
- 1950 – 1953Korean War
- 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
- 19541954 FIFA World Cup
- 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
Biography
Leonid Aleksandrovich Govorov (Russian: Леони́д Алекса́ндрович Го́воров; 22 February [O.S. 10 February] 1897 – 19 March 1955) was a Soviet military commander. Trained as an artillery officer, he joined the Red Army in 1920. He graduated from several Soviet military academies, including the Military Academy of Red Army General Staff. He participated in the Winter War of 1939–1940 against Finland as a senior artillery officer.
In World War II, Govorov rose to command an army in November 1941 during the Battle of Moscow. He commanded the Leningrad Front from April 1942 to the end of the war. He reached the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union in 1944, and was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union and many other awards. He was the father of Soviet General Vladimir Govorov.
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