30 December 1968(1968-12-30) (aged 71) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Buried
Kremlin Wall Necropolis
Allegiance
Soviet Russia (1917–1922) Soviet Union (1922–1964)
Years of service
1917–1964
Rank
Marshal of the Soviet Union (1944–1964)
Commands held
Volga Military District Leningrad Military District 7th Army Chief of the General Staff Volkhov Front Karelian Front Soviet Far East Front Moscow Military District
Battles/wars
Russian Civil War
Spanish Civil War
World War II
Winter War
Great Patriotic War
Siege of Leningrad
Svir–Petrozavodsk Offensive
Petsamo–Kirkenes Offensive
Soviet–Japanese War
Harbin–Kirin Operation
Awards
Hero of the Soviet Union Order of Victory
Other work
Chief of the General Staff Deputy Commissar of Defense Assistant Minister of Defense Inspector-General of the Army
Kirill Afanasievich Meretskov (Russian: Кири́лл Афана́сьевич Мерецко́в; 7 June [O.S. 26 May] 1897 – 30 December 1968) was a Soviet military commander. Having joined the Communist Party in 1917, he served in the Red Army from 1920. During the Winter War of 1939–1940 against Finland, he had the task of penetrating the Mannerheim Line as commander of the 7th Army. He was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union shortly afterwards.
The NKVD arrested Meretskov at the start of invasion of the Soviet Union. Released two months later, he returned to command the 7th Army and later the Volkhov Front during the 1941–1944 siege of Leningrad. He commanded the Karelian Front from February 1944, notably the Petsamo–Kirkenes Offensive of October 1944. From April 1945 he was assigned to the Far East, where he commanded a front during the Soviet invasion of Japanese Manchuria. During the war he reached the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union.[1]
Kirill Afanasievich Meretskov (Russian: Кири́лл Афана́сьевич Мерецко́в; 7 June [O.S. 26 May] 1897 – 30 December 1968) was a Soviet military commander...
actor and director Kirill Lyamin (born 1986), Russian ice hockey player Kirill Mazurov (1914–1989), Belarusian politician KirillMeretskov (1897–1968), Russian...
deployment of the army's best units. Zhdanov's military commander, KirillMeretskov, reported, "The terrain of coming operations is split by lakes, rivers...
feeling because it was called hastily—indeed, Zhukov had ordered General Kirill Moskalenko to secretly prepare a special force and permitted the force to...
permanent counsellors of Stavka": Marshal Kulik, Marshal Shaposhnikov, KirillMeretskov, head of the Air force Zhigarev, Nikolay Vatutin, head of Air Defence...
put in a "confrontation" with KirillMeretskov; the NKVD used Loktionov's bloodied appearance to intimidate Meretskov. After the German Invasion of the...
By September 1941, the link with the Volkhov Front (commanded by KirillMeretskov) was severed and the defensive sectors were held by four armies: 23rd...
undertaken jointly by the Karelian Front under the command of General KirillMeretskov and the Northern Fleet under Admiral Arseniy Golovko. The main operations...
Alekseyev June 19: Colonel General Alexander Loktionov June 24: General KirillMeretskov and Lieutenant General Pavel Rychagov June 27: Lieutenant General Ivan...
Tikhvin Offensive operation under the command of the Army General KirillMeretskov, with General Grigory Stelmakh (former commander of the 4th Army) as...
Front at Harbin and Qiqihar. The 1st Far Eastern Front, under Marshal KirillMeretskov, included: 1st Red Banner Army 5th Army 25th Army 35th Army 10th Mechanized...
9 mi) separated Leonid Govorov's Leningrad Front in the city from KirillMeretskov's Volkhov Front. Despite the failures of earlier operations, lifting...
1944 divided between the Leningrad and 2nd Baltic Fronts) Marshal KirillMeretskov D. Mel'nikov Northwestern Front (disbanded Nov 1943, 2nd Belorussian...
among whom were future marshals of the Soviet Union Nikolay Voronov, KirillMeretskov, Vasily Sokolovsky and Vasily Chapayev. During the Second World War...
Vasilievsky, Konev, Rokossovsky, Malinovsky, Tolbukhin, Govorov, and Meretskov. Those who assumed high command in the Cold War era. All of these were...
by Regimental Commanders Maj. Gen. Grigory Kalinovsky and Marshal KirillMeretskov Leningrad - led by Regimental Commanders Maj. Gen. Andrei Stuchenko...
in the sector: he exchanged 4th Army General Vsevolod Yakovlev for KirillMeretskov; reinforced the 54th Army with five rifle divisions (one of them guard)...
disclaimed responsibility for the arrest in 1941 of the Red Army Marshal, KirillMeretskov, for which he blamed Stalin and Abakumov. However, Nikita Khrushchev...
and Northern fleet, consisting of 133,500 men under Field Marshal KirillMeretskov, attacked the weakest point of the German line, the junction between...
'Tell all, tell all.' Interrogating General KirillMeretskov in 1941, he broke one of his ribs; Meretskov survived to give evidence at Rodos's trial in...
of the Staff of the Red Army 10 May 1937 – August 1940 Succeeded by KirillMeretskov Preceded by Georgy Zhukov Chief of the Staff of the Red Army 29 July...
Dietl Lothar Rendulic Joseph Stalin Markian Popov Valerian Frolov KirillMeretskov Mikhail Khozin Leonid Govorov Strength Average: 450,000 Finns Peak:...
9 mi) separated Leonid Govorov's Leningrad Front in the city and KirillMeretskov's Volkhov Front. Despite the failures of earlier operations, lifting...
Military District 1938–1940 Succeeded by Georgy Zhukov Preceded by KirillMeretskov as Commander of the Leningrad Military District Commander of the Northwestern...
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