Matvei Zakharov: Difference between revisions

| birth_date = {{birth date|1898|8|17}}

| death_date = {{death date and age|1972|1|31|1898|8|17}}

| death_place = [[Moscow]], [[Soviet Union]]

| placeofburial = [[Kremlin Wall Necropolis]]

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*[[Russian Civil War]]

*[[Eastern Front (World War II)|World War II]]

*[[Order of Suvorov]], 1st Class (2)

*[[Order of Kutuzov]], 1st Class (2)

*[[Order of the Red Star]]

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==Biography==

In April 1960, Zakharov was appointed [[Chief of the General Staff (Russia)|Chief of the General Staff]] and Deputy [[Minister of Defence (Soviet Union)|Minister of Defence]], replacing Marshal Sokolovsky. In 1963, having apparently fallen out with Khrushchev, he was demoted to the job he had held 18 years earlier, as head of the General Staff Academy. Khrushchev later stated that Zakharov was removed because he used to fall asleep during important meetings.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Khrushchev |first1=Nikita |title=Khrushchev Remembers, The Last Testament |date=1974 |publisher=Little, Brown |pages=14–15}}</ref> He was reinstated in October 1964, he was reinstated as Chief of the General Staff and USSR First Minister for Defence, after his successor [[Sergey Biryuzov|Marshal Biryuzov]] had been killed in an airplane crash, and Khrushchev had been ousted. When he retired through ill health in September 1971, he was the last active Marshal to have taken part in the events of 1917.

 

 

==Honours and awards==

==External links==

* {{Find a Grave|11851243}}

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