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Ivan Konev

Soviet military commander (1897-1973)

  • Fame58.0
  • Momentum0.8
  • Wikipedia38.7K
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Lived 1897–1973, aged 76
PoliticiansPolitician
  • Wikipedia
    56 languages
    Cross-language footprint
  • Era
    1897–1973
    Aged 76
  • Awards
    40
    recognised works
Summary
Updated 2026-06-08

The Soviet marshal who carved through Nazi-occupied Europe from Kursk to Prague, then turned his tanks on Hungary and Czechoslovakia when they tried to break free.

Biography

About

Born to peasants in 1897, Konev was conscripted into the tsar's army, fought in World War I, then joined the Bolsheviks during the civil war that followed. He graduated from the Frunze Military Academy in 1926 and climbed the Soviet officer corps through the purges and peacetime. When Germany invaded in 1941, he commanded forces at Moscow, Rzhev, and Kursk, then led major offensives through the Dnieper and Vistula that swept the Red Army west. Made Marshal of the Soviet Union in February 1944, his 1st Ukrainian Front raced Zhukov's armies to Berlin and reached Prague first after the city rose…

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Sourced, dated quotes from Ivan Konev

Ivan Konev
said
Our neighbors use searchlights, for they want more light. I tell you, Nikolai Pavlovich, we need more darkness.
— Quoted in "The Last Battle" - Page 354 - by Cornelius Ryan - History - 1966.
Ivan Konev
said
I do not want to give any orders to the airmen, but get hold of a Komsomol air unit, and say I want volunteers for the job.
— Quoted in "Russia at War, 1941-1945" - Page 779 - by Alexander Werth - 1964.
Ivan Konev
saidundated
As for me, I had to know exactly what the situation was in Dukla Pass. Moscow had demanded it.
— Quoted in "The Last Six Months: Russia's Final Battles with Hitler's Armies in World War II" - Page 312 - by Sergeĭ Matveevich Shtemenko -
Ivan Konev
saidundated
We plan alone but we fulfill our plans together with the enemy, as it were, in accordance with his opposition.
— Quoted in "How Wars End: Eye-witness Accounts of the Fall of Berlin" - by Vladimir Sevruk - History - 1974 - Page 27.
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  • Wikidata
    wikidata · wikidata.org
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    database · pantheon.world
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