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 Khvatkov Mikhail Petrovich Khvatkov (Russian: Михаил Петрович Хватков ; 24 November 1925 – 25 June 1944) was a Red Army Efreitor and posthumous Hero of the Soviet Union. Khvatkov was posthumously awarded the title for his actions in the Vitebsk–Orsha Offensive, where he ferried troops and equipment across the Western Dvina. He was killed while crossing the river.