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.
Vladimir Pavlovich Belyaev Vladimir Pavlovich Belyaev (Russian: Владимир Павлович Беляев ; 3 April [O.S. 23 March] 1909 , Kamianets-Podilskyi – 11 February 1990) was a Soviet Russian writer born in Ukraine. He is famous for his trilogy "The Old Fortress" (Старая Крепость) about boys living in Kamenets-Podolsky during the Russian Civil War. The trilogy was written in 1937–1951 and was awarded the Stalin Prize of 1952.