!!!Tolbuchin, Fjodor Iwanowitsch

b. Jaroslavl (Russia), June 4, 1884, 
d. Moscow (Russia), Oct. 17, 1949, Soviet army commander 
(marshal). Officer in the Tsarist army, in 1918 joined the Red Army, 
1942 Commander in Chief of the 57th Soviet Army at  Stalingrad, Oct. 
1943 to May 1944 commander of the 4th Ukrainian front (reconquest of 
the Crimea), until June 1945 commander of the 3rd Ukrainian front, 
with which he won parts of Hungary and eastern Austria (conquest of 
Vienna by April 13,1945). He met with US troops at Erlauf, Lower 
Austria on May 8,1945. Subsequently commander in the Transcaucasus 
military district, member of the Supreme Soviet.



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