Mariscal Malinovsky, Yakulevitch

 

(1898) - (1967). He was born in Odessa in the year 1898. After having fought like voluntarily in the Great War, in the year 1915 he obtains the San Jorge's Cross for his value in the front. Soldier in the French front, fought in the Foreign Legion once disappeared the Russian Army in 1917. Two years later, he begins to form a part of the Red Army. In 1926 he enters in the organization of the communist party and continues his military formation.

He was in Spain like soviet assessor during de Civil War. In June 1941, he resists in Dnepropetrovsk's city the push directed for von Kleist. In December of the following year Malinovsky will stop the counterattack that the Germans throw with intention of freeing to the forces of the Wehrmacht placed in Stalingrad.

In 1943, Malinovsky directs the operations realized in the second front of Ukraine and liberates several important localities, between them the fundamental port of Odessa on the Black Sea. On August 31, 1944 he accedes to Marshall's range. From this moment he directs his action on the central part of the continent and occupies, successively, Budapest and Vienna during the winter of this year.

Once finished Europe's war, Malinovsky goes to the Far East to direct warlike operations against the Japan, which one finds in its period of final resistance. In 1956 he is nominated a commander in chief of the Soviet forces. One year later replaces Zhukov in the Army Minister. Malinovsky dies in 1967.

During the battle of Stalingrad he was leading the 2. º Army Guards.