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.
Semyon Budyonny Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny Also "Budennyj", "Budyonnyy", "Budennii", "Budyoni", "Budyenny", or "Budenny"; (April 25 1883-October 26, 1973) was a Russian cavalryman, a military commander during the Russian Civil War and World War II, and a close political ally of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.