What position did the person who named the 1st Battle of Kharkov hold during World War II?
First Battle of Kharkov The 1st Battle of Kharkov, so named by Wilhelm Keitel, was the 1941 tactical battle for the city of Kharkov (now "Kharkiv") (Ukrainian SSR) during the final phase of Operation "Barbarossa" between the German 6th Army of Army Group South and the Soviet Southwestern Front. The Soviet 38th Army was ordered to defend the city while its factories were dismantled for relocation farther east.
Aleksei Volkov (politician) Aleksei Alekseyevich Volkov (Russian: Алексе́й Алексе́евич Во́лков ; Belarusian: Аляксе́й Аляксе́евіч Во́лкаў ; 1890–1942) was a first secretary of the Byelorussian SSR during the Soviet Union.