Rodion Malinovsky (1898-1967) was a Soviet statesman and military leader, a commander, a Marshal of the Soviet Union (1944).
During the Great Patriotic War, he distinguished himself in the Battle of Stalingrad. The army under the command of Rodion Malinovsky in the interaction with other armies stopped and then defeated Army Group Don of Field Marshal E. von Manstein, who tried to unblock the encircled grouping of F. Paulus near Stalingrad. General Malinovsky's troops liberated Rostov-on-Don and Donbass, participated in the clearing of the Right-Bank Ukraine from the enemy, liberated Odessa, and in coordination with General Tolbukhin's troops defeated the southern wing of the enemy front by encircling 22 German divisions and the 3rd Romanian Army in the Jassy-Kishinev operation.
After the termination of the Soviet-Japanese War in 1945, Rodion Malinovsky commanded the troops of the Transbaikal-Amur Military District. In 1947, he was the Commander-in-Chief of the Far East troops, and then the Commander of the Far Eastern Military District. From March of 1956, he was a First Deputy Minister of Defense and the Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces. From October of 1957, Rodion Malinovsky occupied a post of the Minister of Defense of the USSR.
Matvei Zakharov (1898–1972) was a Soviet statesman and military leader, a commander, a Marshal of the Soviet Union (1959).
During the Great Patriotic War, Matvei Zakharov was the Chief of Staff of the 9th Army, the Chief of the Headquarters of the Commander-in-Chief of the North-Western direction, of Headquarters of the Kalinin, Reserve and Steppe, 2nd Ukrainian and Transbaikal Fronts. He successfully developed more than 20 front operations, among them being Belgorod-Kharkov, Korsun-Shevchenkovsky, Jassy-Kishinev, Budapest offensives and others.
After the termination of the War, Matvei Zakharov was the Head of the K. Voroshilov Higher Military Academy. Since January of 1949, he headed the Main Intelligence Directorate, was a Deputy Chief of the General Staff for Intelligence, a Chief Inspector of the Soviet Army, the Commander of the Leningrad Military District, and since November of 1957, he was the Commander-in-Chief of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany.
The postage stamps provide portraits of Marshals of the Soviet Union Rodion Malinovsy and Matvei Zakharov.
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