Background
GOVOROV, Leonid was born on February 21, 1897 in village Butyrki, Vyatka Province. Son of an office worker of peasant descent.
GOVOROV, Leonid was born on February 21, 1897 in village Butyrki, Vyatka Province. Son of an office worker of peasant descent.
1917 graduate Constantine Artillery College, Petrograd. 1933 graduate Frunze Military Academy. 1938 attended General Staff Academy.
1916 drafted into Russian Army while studying at Petrograd Polytech Institute. 1917 officer, Tomsk garrison. 1918 drafted into General Kolchak’s Army but deserted in October 1919.
January 1920 joined Red Army. During 1920's tried repeatedly to join Communist Party but was refused for having fought with General Kolchak. 1920-1921 commander, artillery battalion, 51st Rifle Division.
1921-1929 commander artillery regt, then commander of artillery, 51st Rifle Division. 1929-1936 commander of artillery, 14th and 15th Rifle Corps and a number of fortified areas in the southern Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. 1938 transferred from General Staff Academy without explanation.
1938-1939 taught tactics at Dzerzhinskiy Artillery Academy. 1939-1940 chief of artillery staff, 7th Army, Soviet-Finnish Front. During Finno-Soviet War advocated the direct laying of heavy artillery against pill-boxes, a tactic which won the approval of General Timoshenko.
1940-1941 deputy inspector-general of artillery, Main Artillery Board. 1941 commandant, Dzerzhinskiy Artillery Academy. Spring 1941 proscribed by People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs for having fought with General Kolchak but spared by Kalinin’s personal intervention.
From 22 July 1941 commander of artillery, Western Sector, Reserve Front. From 17 October 1941 commander, 5th Army, Western Front, which played an important part in the counter-offensive near Moscow in December of that year. April 1942-1945 commander, Leningrad Front.
1943 supervised break-through of Leningrad Blockade. 1944 in charge of liberation of Leningrad Oblast. 1945 in charge of mopping-up operations in Baltic.
1945-1946 commander, Leningrad Military district. 1946-1947 Chief Inspector Soviet Army. 1947-1955 commander'in chief, Anti-Aircraft Defense and L'Soviet Socialist Republic Deputy Minister of Defense.
Deputy, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Supreme Soviet of 1946, 1950 and 1954 convocations.
Religion is a cause of numerous conflicts and bloody wars throughout the history of mankind.
The emphasis on peaceful coexistence doesn’t mean that the Soviet Union accepted a static world with clear lines. Socialism is inevitable and the "correlations of forces" were moving towards socialism.
Member, Academy of Artillery Sciences from 1946. Candidate member, Central Committee, Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1952. Communist Party member from 1942.