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Ivan Stepanovich Konev 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.
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politics · Soviet military commander (1897–1973) · military officer · politician · marshal · also Ivan Konev, Ivan Stepanovich Konev, Konev
Born 16 December 1897 · Died 21 May 1973 · Q185024
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Became a subject of controversy that escalated in 2018, after which the city administration added explanatory text to the monument, noting the participation of its subject in the suppression of the Hungarian Revolution a
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Died 1973-05-21.
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“As for me, I had to know exactly what the situation was in Dukla Pass. Moscow had demanded it.”
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“Our neighbors use searchlights, for they want more light. I tell you, Nikolai Pavlovich, we need more darkness.”
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“I do not want to give any orders to the airmen, but get hold of a Komsomol air unit, and say I want volunteers for the job.”
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“We plan alone but we fulfill our plans together with the enemy, as it were, in accordance with his opposition.”
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1972).
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Awarded Order of Klement Gottwald (1970).
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Won Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" (1970).
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Awarded Hero of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (1970).
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The Ministry of Defence of the USSR published Konev's 285-page war memoir called Forty-Five
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Won Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" (1968).
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Awarded Order of the October Revolution (1968).
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1967).
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Won Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (1965).
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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
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Won Jubilee Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" (1958).
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1957).
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1956).
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Was appointed commander of the Warsaw Pact armed forces, and led the violent suppression of the Hungarian Revolution and Prague Spring
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Awarded Order of the Red Banner (1949).
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Won Jubilee Medal "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy" (1948).
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Won Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow" (1947).
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1947).
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Became Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Ground Forces and First Deputy Minister of Defense of the Soviet Union, replacing Zhukov
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Won Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (1945).
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Won Gold Star medal (1945).
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1945).
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Awarded Order of Victory (1945).
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Won Medal "For the Liberation of Prague" (1945).
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Won Medal "For the Capture of Berlin" (1945).
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Awarded Hero of the Soviet Union (1945).
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Won Gold Star medal (1944).
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1944).
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Awarded Hero of the Soviet Union (1944).
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Won Medal "For the Defence of Moscow" (1944).
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Awarded Order of the Red Banner (1944).
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Awarded Order of Suvorov, 1st class (1944).
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Awarded Order of Suvorov, 1st class (1943).
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Awarded Order of Kutuzov, 1st class (1943).
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Konev took part in a series of major campaigns, including the battles of Moscow and Rzhev
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Won Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army" (1938).
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Awarded Order of the Red Banner (1938).
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Became a Deputy of the Supreme Soviet and in 1939 a candidate member of the Party Central Committee
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Awarded Order of the Red Star (1936).
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Became commander and political commissar of the 37th Rifle Division
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Konev completed advanced officer training courses at the Frunze Military Academy, and between then and 1941 he held a series of progressively more senior commands, becoming head first of the Transbaikal then of the North
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Konev gradually rose through the ranks of the Soviet military
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Joined the Bolsheviks and served in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War
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Joined the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and the Red Army, serving as an artilleryman
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Fought in the Kerensky Offensive in Galicia in July 1917
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And later the Nikolo-Pushemsky Zemstvo School in the neighboring village of Schetkino in 1912
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Born 1897-12-16.
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