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.
Nikolai Biryukov Nikolai Ivanovich Biryukov (6 December 1901, Knyazhaya Baygora, Tambov Governorate – 22 June 1980, Russian: Николай Иванович Бирюков) was a Soviet Army soldier and officer. He fought in the Russian Civil War and in World War II, where he attained the rank of lieutenant general, and was decorated Hero of the Soviet Union.