Konstantin Rokossovsky

Rokossovsky in 1945

Soviet Union postage stamp

Konstanty Rokossovsky, Polish: Konstanty Rokossowski, (21 December 1896 in Warsaw - 3 August 1968 in Moscow) was a Marshal of the Soviet Union (1944), a Marshal of Poland (1949), and twice a Hero of the Soviet Union (1944, 1945).

In World War II he commanded an army in the Moscow battle, Bryansk, and Donskoy fronts (in the Stalingrad battle).

Konstantin Rokossovsky Media

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  Graduates of the Leningrad Higher Cavalry School 1924/25Sitting in the second row (right to left): 1. Bagramyan, 3. Yeremenko. In the third row (right to left): 1. Zhukov, 5. Rokossovsky, 8. Ivan Konev. Standing in the fourth row (right to left): 2. Semyon Timoshenko

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  Rokossovsky as Komdiv (division commander)

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  Communist party Membership card issued to Rokossovsky, following his reinstatement in 1940

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  Kresty Prison, where Rokossovsky was imprisoned in Leningrad (the city was renamed as Saint Petersburg after the fall of the Soviet Union)

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  Battle of Smolensk Diagram

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  Rokossovsky during the Battle of Moscow

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  Rokossovsky as commander of the Don Front, near Stalingrad, 1942

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  The Battle of Stalingrad (1942-1943)

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  Rokossovsky with General Filipp Golikov