8 June 1976(1976-06-08) (aged 75)[1] Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Allegiance
Soviet Russia (1919–1922) Soviet Union (1922–1963)
Years of service
1919–1963
Rank
Marshal of the armoured troops
Unit
Armoured Troops
Commands held
1st Tank Corps
3rd Mechanized Corps
1st Tank Army/1st Guards Tank Army
5th Guards Mechanized Army
Battles/wars
Russian Civil War World War II
Battle of Moscow
Operation Mars
Battle of Kursk
Operation Bagration
Vistula Oder Operation
Battle of Berlin
Awards
Hero of the Soviet Union (twice)
Other work
Commander of Armored Forces of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany Inspector General of the Army
Marshal of Armoured Troops Mikhail Yefimovich Katukov (Russian: Михаи́л Ефи́мович Катуко́в[katuˈkɔf] 17 September [O.S. 4 September] 1900 – 8 June 1976) served as a commander of armored troops in the Red Army during and following World War II. He is viewed as one of the most talented Soviet armor commanders.[2] Mikhail Katukov holds the honor of the first major victory of the Soviet armored forces, the victory from October 4 to October 11, 1941 at Mtsensk over the 3rd and 4th tank divisions, which were part of the Guderian's Panzergruppe 2 in the Battle of Moscow. His other notable command during the German-Soviet War were that of 1st Guards Tank Army, which he commanded during the Battle of Kursk (1943), the Proskurov-Chernovtsy Operation (1944), the Lvov-Sandomierz Operation (1944), the Vistula Oder Operation (1945), and the Battle of Berlin (1945). He commanded 1st Guards Tank Brigade during the Battle of Moscow (1941), and 3rd Mechanised Corps[3]
during Operation Mars (1942).
^ abКатуков Михаил Ефимович. encyclopedia.mil.ru
^David Glantz, Jonathan House, The Battle of Kursk, University Press of Kansas, 1999, P62
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David Glantz, Zhukov's Greatest Defeat – The Red Army's Epic Disaster in Operation Mars 1942, University Press of Kansas, 1998 P140
World War II. The army was commanded throughout most of the war by MikhailKatukov. It fought on the defensive during Case Blue, ultimately being partially...
Leliushenko's hastily formed 1st Guards Special Rifle Corps, including MikhailKatukov's 4th Tank Brigade, near the city of Mtsensk. Newly built T-34 tanks...
soldiers 3rd Guards Tank Army, led by Pavel Rybalko 1st Tank Army, led by MikhailKatukov 4th Guards Tank Corps, led by Pavel Poluboyarov 1st Guard Cavalry Corps...
the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. MikhailKatukov Semyon Krivoshein Galiy Adilbekov Pavel Rotmistrov Mikhail Panov Georgy Zhukov Vasily Chuikov Konstantin...
August 2010. Glantz & House 2004, pp. 28–29, mentions Nikolai Vatutin and Mikhail Malinin. Clark 2012, p. 189, mentions Stalin. Taylor & Kulish 1974, p. 168...
1942 at Kalinin in the Moscow Military District. Lieutenant General MikhailKatukov took command. It was initially assigned to the 22nd Army of the Kalinin...
Mikhail Panov (23 March 1949 – 17 September 1951) Colonel General MikhailKatukov (17 September 1951 – 23 June 1955) Lieutenant General Pyotr Kalininchenko...
Eduard Malofeyev, football player and manager MikhailKatukov, commander of armored troops in the Red Army Mikhail Tyurin, cosmonaut Olga Graf, speed skater...
deep into the operational depth of the opponent as envisaged by Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky's Deep Battle doctrine. With the flanks secured by the Cavalry-Mechanised...
those they were expecting. The commander of the Soviet 1st Tank Army, MikhailKatukov, remarked that the enemy "did not suspect that our well-camouflaged...
Pavlov Western Special Military District until 22 June. General Colonel Mikhail Kirponos Kiev Special Military District until 22 June. General Colonel...
and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Regiment named for Marshal of Armed Forces M. E. Katukov (1 gv. tp) (Russian: 1-й гвардейский танковый Чертковский дважды ордена...
Rifle Division. Archived 2020-09-29 at the Wayback Machine Eskert.ru. MikhailKatukov. In the Vanguard of the Primary Strike. Voenizdat, Moscow (1974). pp...
the 1st Guards tank brigade. The Commander of the brigade, Colonel MikhailKatukov, was eventually promoted to commander of the Soviet 1st Guards Tank...
Husák Alexi Ivanov Semyon Ivanov Henryk Jabłoński Wojciech Jaruzelski MikhailKatukov Nikita Khrushchev Kim Il Sung Leonid Kizim Dinmukhamed Kunaev Ivan...
Absolute War. Knopf (2008). ISBN 978-0-375-41086-4. Pages 307–8. MikhailKatukov. In the Vanguard of the Primary Strike. Voenizdat, Moscow (1974). Pages...
Neukölln. Accompanying them were the leading tanks of Colonel-General MikhailKatukov's 1st Guards Tank Army. Sometime after midnight, a corps of Colonel-General...
Romani, 0.1% Yiddish and 0.1% Ukrainian as their native language. MikhailKatukov (1900–1976), Red Army commander born in the village of Bolshoe Uvarovo...
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