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Pavel Kurochkin

Soviet general (1900–1989)

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Soviet general (1900–1989)

Field	Value
name	Pavel Alekseyevich Kurochkin
birth_date	19 November 1900
death_date
birth_place	Gornevo, Smolensk Governorate, Russian Empire
death_place	Moscow, Soviet Union
image	Pavel Kurochkin 1.jpg
allegiance	Soviet Union
serviceyears	1918–1970
rank	Army General
commands	23rd Rifle Corps
17th Army
20th Army
43rd Army
11th Army
34th Army
North-Western Front
2nd Belorussian Front
60th Army
Kuban Military District
awards	Hero of the Soviet Union
laterwork	Chairman of the Supreme Military Council of the Warsaw Pact
Deputy to the Supreme Soviet

17th Army 20th Army 43rd Army 11th Army 34th Army North-Western Front 2nd Belorussian Front 60th Army Kuban Military District

Russian Civil War
World War II
- Battle of Smolensk
- Toropets-Kholm Operation
- Korsun-Cherkassy Pocket
- Lvov-Sandomierz Offensive Deputy to the Supreme Soviet

Pavel Alekseyevich Kurochkin (; – 28 December 1989) was a Soviet army commander.

Military career

Pavel Kurochkin was born in the village of Gornevo, Smolensk Governorate. He joined the Red Army in 1918. Kurochkin completed cavalry courses in Petrograd in 1920, the year when he also joined the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks). He graduated from the Red Army High Cavalry school in 1923, the Frunze Military Academy in 1932 and the General Staff Academy in 1940.

Russian Civil War

During the Civil War, Kurochkin saw action against General Pyotr Krasnov near Gatchina, the British-American intervention in the north and General Nikolai Yudenich in 1919. He commanded a cavalry regiment in the Polish-Soviet war and was involved in the suppression of the Tambov Rebellion in 1921.

Inter-war period

In 1935 he was promoted to chief commander of a cavalry division. After the Soviet-Finnish war broke out, he took over as the commanding officer of 23rd Rifle Corps. From 1940 to 1941, he served as commander-in-chief of the 1st Army Group in Mongolia, commanding officer of the 17th Army in Mongolia, commander-in-chief of the Transbaikal Military District and commander-in-chief of the Orel Military District.

World War II

In July 1941 he was given command of the 20th Army which participated in the unsuccessful defense of Smolensk.

He briefly held the command of the 43rd Army in August 1941 until his promotion to commander-in-chief of the North-Western Front. He held that post until October 1942, when he was moved to command the Soviet 11th Army and then the 34th Army. He was again placed in command of the North-Western Front from July to November 1943. It was during this time that Kurochkin commanded the Toropets-Kholm Operation.

From December 1943 until February 1944, he was the first deputy commander-in-chief of the First Ukrainian Front under Marshal Konev and was remembered for his planning of the bloody Korsun–Shevchenkovsky Offensive.

From February to April 1944, he commanded the units of the Second Belorussian Front. His last assignment of the war would be commanding the 60th Army from April 1944 through May 1945 which took part in the Lvov-Sandomierz operation and fought in Central Europe. For all his merits and achievements, Kurochkin was awarded with the highest Soviet honor, Hero of the Soviet Union.

Post-war career

Immediately after the war, Kurochkin briefly headed the Kuban Military District until his appointment in 1946 as first deputy commander-in-chief of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany. After his tour in East Germany ended in 1947, he took over as an assistant commander-in-chief of the Far Eastern Military District.

From 1951 to 1968, Kurochkin served in military academies, first at the Military Academy of the General Staff and later as the Commandant of the Frunze Military Academy. In 1968, he became the chairman of the Supreme Command of the United Military Forces of the Warsaw Pact. Kurochkin finished his military career as a general inspector of the Ministry of Defense. He went on to become a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and was awarded with the Order of Lenin in 1980. Kurochkin died in Moscow in 1989.

Honours and awards

Hero of the Soviet Union
Five Orders of Lenin
Order of the October Revolution
Four Orders of the Red Banner
Order of Suvorov 1st class
Two Orders of Kutuzov 1st class
Order of the Patriotic War 1st class
Order of the Badge of Honour
Order for Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR 3rd class
Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary since the Birth of Vladimir Il'ich Lenin"
Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Medal "For the Liberation of Prague"
Medal "Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army"
Jubilee Medal "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy"
Jubilee Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

References

Bio at people.ru (This article includes translated materials)

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