15 Facts About Pyotr Koshevoy

Pyotr Koshevoy commanded the 63rd Rifle Corps during the Crimean Offensive, then transferred to command the 71st Rifle Corps before leading the 36th Guards Rifle Corps from early 1945, commanding it in the East Prussian Offensive.

Pyotr Koshevoy became commander-in-chief of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany in 1965.

Pyotr Koshevoy was promoted to Marshal of the Soviet Union in 1968, but was dismissed from command of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany in late 1969.

Pyotr Koshevoy joined the Red Army during the Russian Civil War on 13 February 1920 and was sent to the 2nd Red Cossack Regiment of the 8th Red Cossack Cavalry Division, with which he fought on the Southwestern Front against Polish and Ukrainian People's Army troops in the area of Chornyi Ostriv, Lityn, Proskurov, Horodok, and Rohatyn, then against the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine.

Temporarily transferred to the department of higher education institutions at the district headquarters to serve as officer for assignments of the 2nd category in November 1931, Pyotr Koshevoy then served at the VTsIK Combined Military School as an assistant machine gun squadron commander.

Pyotr Koshevoy became assistant chief of the 1st section of the staff of the regiment in May 1935, and from October of that year was regimental chief of staff.

Pyotr Koshevoy entered the Frunze Military Academy in May 1936 and upon graduation in January 1939 was appointed chief of staff of the 15th Cavalry Division, stationed in the Transbaikal Military District.

Pyotr Koshevoy was transferred to command the 65th Rifle Division of the district in February 1940.

Pyotr Koshevoy went on to lead the corps as part of the 44th and 51st Armies of the 4th Ukrainian Front in the Melitopol and Crimean Offensives, during which it captured Kakhovka, Simferopol, and Sevastopol.

Pyotr Koshevoy transferred to command the 36th Guards Rifle Corps of the 11th Guards Army from 7 January 1945, leading it for the rest of the war.

Pyotr Koshevoy commanded the 6th Guards Army in the Baltic Military District from July 1946, and studied at the Higher Academic Courses of the Voroshilov Higher Military Academy from March 1947 to April 1948.

Pyotr Koshevoy commanded the Siberian Military District from July 1957 and the Kiev Military District from April 1960, being promoted to army general on 13 April 1964.

Pyotr Koshevoy lived in Moscow, where he died on 30 August 1976.

Pyotr Koshevoy was a recipient of the following awards and decorations:.

Pyotr Koshevoy was a candidate member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union between 1961 and 1971, and a sixth and seventh convocation delegate of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.