In what year was the man who named the First Battle of Kharkov born?
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.
Mikhail Dratvin Mikhail Dratvin (Russian: Михаил Иванович Дратвин ; 21 November 1897, in Ekimovo 12 December 1953, in Moscow) was a Soviet lieutenant general. Dratvin's military career began when he was drafted into the army of the Russian Empire during World War I. He subsequently became an expert in the fields of military intelligence and signals, teaching at a number of Soviet military academies and acting as a senior military advisor to the government of China during the Warlord Era and the Second Sino-Japanese War. He fought in World War II and served as a functionary of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany at the conclusion of the war.