Filipp Golikov

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Filipp Ivanovich Golikov
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Native name
Филипп Иванович Голиков
Born July 16 [O.S. July 29] 1900
Borisova, Perm Governorate, Russian Empire
(now Kataysky District, Kurgan Oblast), Russia
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Moscow, RSFSR, USSR
Allegiance Soviet Union Soviet Union
Service/branch Red star.svg Soviet Army, Main Intelligence Directorate
Years of service 1918—1980
Rank Marshal of the Soviet Union (1961)

Filipp Ivanovich Golikov, (Russian: Филипп Иванович Голиков; July 30, 1900, Borisova, Perm Governorate - July 29, 1980) was a Soviet military commander, promoted Marshal of the Soviet Union in 1961. He is best known for not passing on to Stalin intelligence about German invasion plans in June 1941, either because he did not believe them or because Stalin made it very clear he did not want to hear them.[1]

Military career

Golikov saw service as a political commissar during the Russian Civil War. He graduated from the Frunze military academy in 1933. He commanded the 6th Army during the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, and in 1940 he served in the war against Finland. He was in charge of the Soviet Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) (1940–41), personally leading Soviet military missions in Great Britain and United States.

During the war, he commanded the Bryansk Front (1942) and Voronezh Front (1942–43), before being appointed Assistant Minister of Defense (April 1943), at which post he was responsible for the repatriation of Soviet POW. The war over, he held various offices in the Ministry of Defense.

Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery

Further reading

  • McCauley, Martin. Who's Who in Russia since 1900 (Routledge 1997) p 94

References

  1. McCauley, Martin. Who's Who in Russia since 1900 (Routledge 1997) p 94

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