Marshall Georgy Konstantnovich Zhukov served as a military commander in Byelorussian Soviet Socialists Republic of 17 years (1922-1939). He was also a commander of a brigade in 1930. Unlike Marshall Tuhachevsky and many other military commanders of the Red Army, Zhukov survived Joseph Stalin purges of 1937. In 1939 he was transferred to Moscow and then immediately to Far East where he commanded a group of Soviet troops that defeated the Japanese invasion at Halhin-Gol.
On June 22, 1941, Belarus and USSR was attacked by Hitler Germany. Zhukov became a member of General Headquarters of the Red Army on June 26, 1941. He first delivers a victory over the Germans in the battle of El'nia as head of Reserve Front in 1941. Later he became a high commander of Western Front in October 1941. In August of 1942 he became the 1st Vice-Commissar of the People's Commissariate of Defence. Zhukov has coordinated all of the main decisive battles with Nazi Germans in Soviet Union.
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