Mikhail Katukov

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Soviet marshal (1900-1976)

WritersLived 1900 to 1976 · aged 75

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Awards 31

1945Hero of the Soviet Union

1945Gold Star medal

1945Order of Suvorov, 1st class

1944Order of the Red Banner

1944Hero of the Soviet Union

1944Order of Suvorov, 1st class

1944Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky, 1st class

1944Order of Lenin

1944Gold Star medal

1944Distinguished Service Order

1943Order of Kutuzov, 1st class

1943Order of Kutuzov, 2nd class

1941Order of Lenin

Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Medal "For the Defence of Kyiv"

Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army"

Order of the Red Star

Medal "For the Defence of Moscow"

Medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw"

Medal "For the Capture of Berlin"

Order of Lenin

Order of the Red Banner

Order "For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR", 3rd class

Medal "Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

Medal "For Oder, Nysa and the Baltic"

Medal "For the strengthening of friendship in arms"

Knight's Cross of the Virtuti Militari

Order of the Cross of Grunwald, 2nd class

Order of the Cross of Grunwald, 1st class

Medal for Warsaw 1939-1945

Commander of the Order of Polonia Restituta

Connected to Mikhail 6

Alexander RodimtsevAlso won Order of Kutuzov, 2nd class

Kirill MoskalenkoAlso won Medal "For the Defence of Kyiv"

Zygmunt BerlingAlso won Order of the Cross of Grunwald, 1st class

Marian SpychalskiAlso won Order of the Cross of Grunwald, 2nd class

Matvei ZakharovAlso won Medal "For the strengthening of friendship in arms"

Ivan Yefimovich PetrovAlso won Medal "For Oder, Nysa and the Baltic"

About this person

Marshal of Armoured Troops Mikhail Yefimovich Katukov served as a commander of armored troops in the Red Army during and following World War II. He is viewed as one of the most talented Soviet armor commanders. Mikhail Katukov holds the honor of the first major victory of the Soviet armored forces, the victory from October 4 to October 11, 1941, at Mtsensk over the 3rd and 4th tank divisions, which were part of the Guderian's Panzergruppe 2 in the Battle of Moscow. His other notable command during the German-Soviet War was that of the 1st Guards Tank Army, which he commanded during the Battle of Kursk (1943), the Proskurov-Chernovtsy Operation (1944), the Lvov-Sandomierz Operation (1944), the Vistula-Oder Operation (1945), and the Battle of Berlin (1945). He commanded 1st Guards Tank Brigade during the Battle of Moscow (1941), and the 3rd Mechanised Corps during Operation Mars (1942).