Filipp Ivanovich Golikov, (Russian

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: Филипп Иванович Голиков; July 30, 1900 - July 29, 1980) was a Soviet military commander, promoted Marshal of the Soviet Union

Marshal of the Soviet Union

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 in 1961.

Golikov saw service during the Russian Civil War

Russian Civil War

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. Immediately before the outbreak of the German-Soviet War, he commanded the 6th Army

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 during the Soviet invasion of Poland

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, and was later in charge of the Soviet

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 Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU)

GRU

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 (1940-41), personally leading Soviet military missions in Great Britain

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 and United States

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. During the World War II

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, he commanded the Bryansk Front

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 (1942) and Voronezh Front

Voronezh Front

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 (1942-43), before being appointed Assistant Minister of Defense (April 1943), at which post he was responsible for the repatriation

Repatriation

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of Soviet POW. The war over, he held various offices in the Ministry of Defense.

External links

• Biography of Marshal of Soviet Union Filipp Ivanovich Golikov