Vasyl Herasymenko

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Vasily Filippovich Gerasimenko (Russian: Василий Филиппович Герасименко, Ukrainian: Василь Пилипович Герасименко, Vasyl Pylypovych Herasymenko) was a Soviet Army lieutenant general who held field army command during World War II. A Ukrainian, he was nominally and temporarily appointed the People's Commissar of Defense of the Ukrainian SSR in 1944-45.

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Biography Vasily Filippovich Herasymenko was born in a village of Velyka Burimka, Poltava Governorate (today part of Zolotonosha Raion, Cherkasy Oblast) on April 24, 1900 in a peasant family. When he was nine years old, together with mother they moved to relatives in Kuban, stanytsia Berezanska. There Herasymenko finished a village school and the Nikol city college in Yekaterinodar. In 1918, Herasymenko joined the Red Army and during the Russian Civil War he fought at the Northern Caucasus and the Southern Russia. In 1920, Herasymenko joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and in 1922 he finished the courses of commanding staff of the Red Army. In 1927, Herasymenko also finished the Joint Military School in Minsk and in 1931 - the M. V. Frunze Military Academy. In August 1937, Herasymenko was appointed commander of the 8th Rifle Corps. In 1938, he was a deputy commander of the Kiev Special Military District (see Kiev Military District). During World War II in July 1940 Herasymenko was appointed the commander of Volga Military District. At that time he was promoted to Lieutenant General. In 1940, under the command of Georgy Zhukov participated in the invasion of Romania as a commander of…Citește mai mult