Timoshenko Semyon

1895 – 1970

РГВА. Ф. 40884. Оп. 1. Д. 88. Л. 12. Фото 2.

Soviet People’s Commissar of Defence S. Timoshenko, Chairman of the Defence Committee of the Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR K. Voroshilov and Soviet Deputy People’s Commissars of Defence L. Mekhlis and S. Budyonny

Kremlin, Moscow. 1940

Russian State Military Archive

Coll. 40884, ser. 1, fold. 88, f. 12, № 2.

Photograph

Order of the Soviet People’s Commissariat of Defence № 110 with decrees of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR appointing K. Voroshilov to the posts of Deputy Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars and Chairman of the Defence Committee of the Council of People’s Commissars and S. Timoshenko to the post of People’s Commissar of Defence

8 May 1940

Russian State Military Archive

Coll. 4, ser. 12, fold. 91, f. 728.

Original

РГВА. Ф. 4. Оп. 19. Д. 90. Л. 3–26, 28–46.

Deed of transfer of the Soviet People’s Commissariat of Defence from Marshal of the Soviet Union K. Voroshilov to Marshal of the Soviet Union S. Timoshenko (with an attached inventory of the main types of arms, machinery and property of the Red Army as of 1 May 1940)

[After 7 May 1940]

Russian State Military Archive

Coll. 4, ser. 19, fold. 90, ff. 3–26, 28–46.

Deed – original, inventory – original

РГВА. Ф. 33987. Оп. 3а. Д. 1302. Л. 140.

Message from People’s Commissar of Internal Affairs L. Beria to Soviet People’s Commissar of Defence S. Timoshenko about the defeat of the British expeditionary force in Belgium, the decisions of the French command, and the activities of German armoured divisions and planes

19 May 1940

Russian State Military Archive

Coll. 33987, ser. 3а, fold. 1302, f. 140.

Original

РГВА. Ф. 33987. Оп. 3а. Д. 1306. Л. 173–175.

Message from Soviet People’s Commissar of Internal Affairs L. Beria to Soviet People’s Commissar of Defence S. Timoshenko about Germany’s role in the fate of the Baltic countries, the activisation of German and military Fascist organisations in Lithuania, and rumours of the inevitable military conflict between Germany and the USSR

2 June 1940

Russian State Military Archive

Coll. 33987, ser. 3а, fold. 1306, ff. 173–175.

Original

РГАСПИ. Ф. 17. Оп. 166. Д. 625. Л. 71, 61–70.

Cover letter from the Secretary of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party A. Zhdanov to J. Stalin with the attached draft resolution of the Council of People’s Commissars of the Soviet Union and the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party ‘On the production of T‑34 tanks in 1940’

4–5 June 1940

Russian State Archive of Social and Political History

Coll. 17, ser. 166, fold. 625, ff. 71, 61–70.

Originals. Voting results – autographs of members of the Politburo of the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee

РГВА. Ф. 33987. Оп. 3а. Д. 1302. Л. 164.

Message from Soviet People’s Commissar of Internal Affairs L. Beria to Soviet People’s Commissar of Defence S. Timoshenko about the start of the general evacuation of Paris due to the rapid advance of German troops

10 June 1940

Russian State Military Archive

Coll. 33987, ser. 3а, fold. 1302, f. 164.

Original

РГВА. Ф. 4. Оп. 19. Д. 71. Л. 238–238об.

Report from Soviet People’s Commissar of Defence S. Timoshenko to the Politburo of the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee and the Council of People’s Commissars of the Soviet Union about the creation of the Baltic Military District and the start of activities for preparing its territory for a possible war

17 June 1940

Russian State Military Archive

Coll. 4, ser. 19, fold. 71, ff. 238–238v.

Copy

Report of the leadership of the General Staff of the Red Army to the Politburo of the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee and the Council of People’s Commissars of the Soviet Union about the spoliatory activities of Romanian troops while leaving Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina

30 June 1940

Russian State Military Archive

Coll. 37977, ser. 1, fold. 661, f. 4.

Certified copy

Report from Soviet People’s Commissar of Defence S. Timoshenko and Chief of the General Staff of the Red Army B. Shaposhnikov to the Politburo of the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee and Council of People’s Commissars of the Soviet Union with recommendations on the reorganisation of Western military districts and the general strengthening of the Soviet Armed Forces

4 July 1940

Russian State Archive of Contemporary History

Coll. 3, ser. 50, fold. 262, ff. 75–85.

Original

On the Eve ofthe Great Patriotic War

On the Eve of
the Great Patriotic War