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Mikhail Kovalev

Mikhail Prokofievich Kovalyov
Born (1897-07-07)7 July 1897
Bryukhovetsky, Krasnodar Krai, Russian Empire
Died 31 August 1967(1967-08-31) (aged 70)
Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Allegiance  Soviet Union
Service/branch Red Army
Rank Colonel-General
Battles/wars World War I
Russian Civil War
Tambov Rebellion
Polish-Soviet War
Winter War
Soviet invasion of Poland
Soviet invasion of Manchuria
Awards Order of Lenin (2)
Order of the Red Banner (3)
Order of Suvorov 1st class

Colonel-General Mikhail Prokofievich Kovalyov (Russian: Михаил Прокофьевич Ковалёв) (7 July [O.S. 26 June] 1897 – 31 August 1967) was a Soviet military officer.

Mikhail Kovalyov was born to family of a peasants in stanitsa Bryukovetskaya, Krasnodar Krai. In 1915 he enlisted in the Russian Army. After graduating from a School for Praporshchiks. Kovalyov fought in World War I commanding a platoon (polurota), company and then a battalion. At the time of the October Revolution he was a Stabs-Captain. During the Russian Civil War he commanded a regiment and then a brigade in the Red Army participating in the fights against White Armies of Denikin, Wrangel and the peasant Tambov rebellion of Aleksandr Antonov.

From 1937 Kovalyov was the commander of Kiev Military District, then from 1938, he was the commander of Belarussian Military District. He was the commander of the Belarusian Front during the Soviet invasion of Poland in September 1939. Kovalyov was also the commander of the 15th Army (Soviet Union) and led the Russians to victory. As well as leading during the Winter War (1939–1940). He was the commander of Kharkov Military District, then Inspector of Infantry for the Red Army Commander of the Transbaikal Front during 1941.


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