25 Facts About Kirill Moskalenko

Kirill Semyonovich Moskalenko was a Marshal of the Soviet Union.

Kirill Moskalenko graduated from a four-year primary rural school and two classes of the school of the ministerial school.

Kirill Moskalenko was forced to interrupt his studies due to the outbreak of the Russian Civil War.

Kirill Moskalenko returned to his native village, where he worked in the rural revolutionary committee.

Kirill Moskalenko fought in the civil war while serving as the member of the First Cavalry Army.

Kirill Moskalenko fought against the troops of General Pyotr Wrangel and Ataman Nestor Makhno.

Kirill Moskalenko studied at the Luhansk Artillery School and at the 2nd Kharkov Artillery School.

Kirill Moskalenko later served as commander of a training battery, artillery battalion, and chief of staff of an artillery regiment from 1928.

Kirill Moskalenko commanded the 23rd Tank Brigade in Primorsky Krai from 1935.

When Operation Barbarossa began in June 1941, Kirill Moskalenko was the commander of an anti-tank brigade which was stationed in Lutsk.

Between June 1941, and March 1942, Kirill Moskalenko first held command of the 1st Anti-Tank Brigade, 15th Rifle Corps, 6th Army, and later of the 6th Cavalry Corps.

Kirill Moskalenko participated in the Kiev Strategic Defensive Operation and fought in battles near Teterev, Pripyat, Dnieper and Desna.

The 6th Army under the command Kirill Moskalenko took part in the Barvenkovo-Lozovaya offensive and the liberation of the cities of Izium and Lozova.

Kirill Moskalenko was the commander of the newly reformed 38th Army from March to July 1942.

Kirill Moskalenko was then appointed commander of the 1st Tank Army from July to August 1942 and the 1st Guards Army from August to October 1942 before finally receiving command of the 40th Army, which was separate from the Voronezh Front, a position he held until October 1943.

Kirill Moskalenko led his troops during the winter counteroffensive and during the Battle of Kursk.

Kirill Moskalenko was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union for heroism and courage when crossing the Dnieper and securing a bridgehead on its western bank.

From October 1943 until the end of the war, Kirill Moskalenko was the commander of the 38th Army.

Kirill Moskalenko led his troops as they helped drive the Germans from Ukraine, Poland, and Czechoslovakia.

Kirill Moskalenko served in various capacities in the Moscow Military District, before being appointed its Commanding General in 1953.

Kirill Moskalenko remained in the Moscow Military District until 1960, when he was made Commander-in-Chief of the Strategic Rocket Forces.

Kirill Moskalenko owed his very rapid promotion to having served with Khrushchev during the war.

Kirill Moskalenko was more than just rude - he was mentally unbalanced.

Khrushchev claimed to have been shocked by the virulence with which Kirill Moskalenko denounced Marshal Zhukov in 1957, when Khrushchev had decided to sack Zhukov, but even so, he remained in office until April 1962, when he was dismissed without any reason being given, and was made an Inspector General of the Ministry of Defense, an honorary post of no significance.

Kirill Moskalenko died on 17 June 1985 in Moscow, at the age of 83.