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In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Stepanovich and the family name is Konev.
Marshal of the Soviet Union
Ivan Konev
Konev in 1945
1st Supreme Commander of the Unified Armed Forces of the Warsaw Treaty Organization
In office 14 May 1955 – April 1960
Preceded by
Position created
Succeeded by
Andrei Grechko
1st High Commissioner of the Soviet occupation of Austria
In office July 1945 – 25 April 1946
President
Karl Renner
Chancellor
Karl Renner
Preceded by
Fyodor Tolbukhin (as military commander)
Succeeded by
Vladimir Kurasov
Personal details
Born
(1897-12-28)28 December 1897[1] Lodeyno, Nikolsky Uyezd, Vologda Governorate, Russian Empire
Died
21 May 1973(1973-05-21) (aged 75) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Resting place
Kremlin Wall Necropolis
Awards
Hero of the Soviet Union (twice)
Military service
Allegiance
Russian Empire (1915–1917) Soviet Russia (1917–1922) Soviet Union (1922–1973)
Branch/service
Imperial Russian Army (1915–1917) Red Army (1917–1946) Soviet Army (1946–1973)
Years of service
1915–1973
Rank
Marshal of the Soviet Union (1944–1973)
Commands
2nd Rifle Division 2nd Red Banner Army Transbaikal Military District Steppe Front Kalinin Front Western Front 2nd Ukrainian Front 1st Ukrainian Front Commander of Warsaw Pact Armed Forces
Battles/wars
World War I
Kerensky Offensive
Russian Civil War
World War II
Great Patriotic War
Operation Barbarossa
Battle of Moscow
Rzhev–Sychyovka offensive
Battle of Kursk
Belgorod–Kharkov offensive operation
Dnieper–Carpathian offensive
Battle of Korsun–Cherkassy
First Jassy–Kishinev offensive
Vistula–Oder offensive
Battle of Berlin
Occupation of Germany
Hungarian Uprising
Ivan Stepanovich Konev (Russian: Ива́н Степа́нович Ко́нев, IPA:[ɪˈvansʲtʲɪˈpanəvʲɪtɕˈkonʲɪf]; 28 December 1897 – 21 May 1973) was a Soviet general and Marshal of the Soviet Union who led Red Army forces on the Eastern Front during World War II, responsible for taking much of Axis-occupied Eastern Europe.
Born to a peasant family, Konev was conscripted into the Imperial Russian Army in 1916 and fought in World War I. In 1919, he joined the Bolsheviks and served in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War. After graduating from Frunze Military Academy in 1926, Konev gradually rose through the ranks of the Soviet military. By 1939, he had become a candidate to the Central Committee of the Communist Party.
Following the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, Konev took part in a series of major campaigns, including the battles of Moscow and Rzhev. Konev further commanded forces in major Soviet offensives at Kursk, in the Dnieper–Carpathian and Vistula–Oder offensives. In February 1944, he was made a Marshal of the Soviet Union. On the eve of German defeat, Konev's 1st Ukrainian Front was pitted against the armies of Georgy Zhukov in the Race to Berlin. Konev was the first Allied commander to enter Prague, the capital of Czechoslovakia, after the Prague uprising.
He replaced Zhukov as commander of Soviet ground forces in 1946. In 1956, he was appointed commander of the Warsaw Pact armed forces, and led the violent suppression of the Hungarian Revolution and Prague Spring. In 1961, as commander of Soviet forces in East Germany, he ordered the closing of West Berlin to East Berlin during the building of the Berlin Wall. Konev remained a popular military figure in the Soviet Union until his death in 1973.
Ivan Stepanovich Konev (Russian: Ива́н Степа́нович Ко́нев, IPA: [ɪˈvan sʲtʲɪˈpanəvʲɪtɕ ˈkonʲɪf]; 28 December 1897 – 21 May 1973) was a Soviet general and...
The statue of IvanKonev (Czech: Socha Ivana Koněva) was a monument to Russian general IvanKonev that was erected in Prague in 1980. In the late 2010s...
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to Berlin was a competition between Soviet Marshals Georgy Zhukov and IvanKonev to be the first to enter Berlin during the final months of World War II...
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Soviet troops of the 1st Ukrainian Front under the command of Marshal IvanKonev, while at the same time units of the 1st Belorussian Front, under the...
east and north, started shelling Berlin's city centre, while Marshal IvanKonev's 1st Ukrainian Front broke through Army Group Centre and advanced towards...
military commanders who earned it on merit. These included Georgy Zhukov, IvanKonev and Konstantin Rokossovsky to name a few. In 1943, Stalin himself was...
Silesia and involved forces of the 1st Ukrainian Front under Marshal IvanKonev. Due to the importance of the region to the Germans, considerable forces...
northern face. Waiting in reserve was the Steppe Front, commanded by IvanKonev. In February 1943, the Central Front had been reconstructed from the Don...
II in 1945, involving forces of the 1st Ukrainian Front under Marshal IvanKonev. It cleared German troops from much of Lower Silesia and besieged a large...
(known as the 2nd Ukrainian Front after 20 October 1943), commanded by IvanKonev Southwestern Front (known as the 3rd Ukrainian Front after 20 October...
headed by Marshal IvanKonev. On 18 December 1953, the Military Court sentenced Beria to death. During the burial of Beria, Konev commented: "The day...
defense and the combined Western and Reserve Fronts, with Colonel General IvanKonev as his deputy. On 12 October, Zhukov ordered the concentration of all...
Monument to Soviet Tank Crews (first painted, later removed) Statue of IvanKonev (removed in 2020) Monument to the Liberation of the City by the Red Army...
the Soviet Ground Forces in March 1946, but was quickly succeeded by IvanKonev in July 1946. By September 1946, the army decreased from 5 million soldiers...
government appealed to Soviets for help. On 31 August, Soviet marshal IvanKonev was ordered to prepare plans for an offensive to destroy Nazi forces in...
East Germany Hungary Poland Romania Soviet Union Supreme commander IvanKonev (first) Pyotr Lushev (last) Chief of combined staff Aleksei Antonov (first)...
During the meeting with Marshal IvanKonev on 5 May, General Omar Bradley also proposed the same offer. However, Marshal Konev – while he appreciated the good...
northern face. Waiting in reserve was the Steppe Front, commanded by IvanKonev. In February 1943, the Central Front had been reconstructed from the Don...
intervention, codenamed "Operation Whirlwind", was launched by Marshal IvanKonev. The five Soviet divisions stationed in Hungary before 23 October were...
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Russian Empire (1915–1917)
Soviet Russia (1917–1922)
Soviet Union (1922–1973)
Red Army (1917–1946) 
Soviet Army (1946–1973)