1. Leonid Govorov graduated from several Soviet military academies, including the Military Academy of Red Army General Staff.
22 Facts About Leonid Govorov
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In World War II, Govorov rose to command an army in November 1941 during the Battle of Moscow.
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Leonid Govorov commanded the Leningrad Front from April 1942 to the end of the war.
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Leonid Govorov reached the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union in 1944, and was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union and many other awards.
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Leonid Govorov was the father of Soviet General Vladimir Govorov.
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Leonid Aleksandrovich Govorov was born into a peasant family of Russian ethnicity in the village of Butyrki in Vyatka Governorate.
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Leonid Govorov attended a technical high school in Yelabuga and enrolled in the shipbuilding department of Petrograd Polytechnical Institute.
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Leonid Govorov became an artillery officer with the rank of podporuchik.
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Leonid Govorov fought in the Spring Offensive of the Russian Army, a general drive westwards by White forces in the east.
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Leonid Govorov deserted in November 1919, fleeing to Tomsk, where he took part in an uprising against White authorities as part of a fighting squad.
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Leonid Govorov joined the Red Army in January 1920, serving in the 51st Rifle Division as an artillery battalion commander.
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Leonid Govorov was wounded twice during the year and was awarded the Order of the Red Banner in 1921 for his actions in Crimea.
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Leonid Govorov obtained further military education, graduating from the Artillery course in 1926, the Higher Academy course in 1930, and the Frunze Military Academy in 1933.
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In 1936, Leonid Govorov was among the first officers who attended the newly founded Military Academy of Red Army General Staff, from which he graduated in 1938.
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Leonid Govorov was close to being arrested, but in the end survived thanks to the intervention of Mikhail Kalinin and continued to rise in rank.
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In 1939 the Soviet Union invaded Finland, and Leonid Govorov was appointed chief of artillery of the 7th Army, as his research while at Dzerzhinsky Artillery Academy was about assaulting and penetrating fortified enemy positions.
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Leonid Govorov commanded the massive artillery assault that allowed the Soviet breakthrough along the Mannerheim Line in 1940.
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Leonid Govorov was then appointed Deputy Inspector-General of Artillery of the Red Army.
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In late November 1942, Leonid Govorov began planning the next operation to break the blockade of Leningrad.
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In November 1943, Leonid Govorov began planning the Leningrad-Novgorod Offensive which would drive Army Group North out of the Leningrad region.
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On 27 January 1945, Leonid Govorov was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
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Leonid Govorov was cremated and his ashes in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis.