Shaposhnikov Boris

1882 – 1945

Agreement between representatives of the Soviet and German commands about withdrawing Wehrmacht divisions to the West and transferring occupied territories to Red Army divisions

21 September 1939

Russian State Military Archive

Coll. 4, ser. 19, fold. 22, ff. 65–67.

Original

Map with B. Shaposhnikov’s imprimatur of 12 October 1939 illustrating Soviet proposals for territorial exchange with Finland

12 October 1939

Russian State Archive of Social and Political History

Coll. 558, ser. 11, fold. 604, ff. 8–43.

Press proof

Special report of the 5th Red Army Directorate ‘Stance of the USA on the war in Europe and on the USSR’

22 June 1940

Russian State Military Archive

Coll. 37977, ser. 1, fold. 693, ff. 38–39

Original

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

Special report of the 5th Red Army Directorate about the attitude of the USA towards Soviet activities in Bessarabia and the striving of the US establishment to improve relations with Japan and the Soviet Union

3 July 1940

Russian State Military Archive

Coll. 37977, ser. 5, fold. 535, ff. 288–289.

Original

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

Report from Soviet People’s Commissar of Defence S. Timoshenko and Chief of the General Staff of the Red Army B. Shaposhnikov to the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party about the basic principles of the strategic deployment of the Soviet Armed Forces in the West and East in 1940 and 1941

[July 1940]

Central Archive of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation

Coll. 16а, ser. 2951, fold. 239, ff. 1–37.

Original

Cipher telegram from Berlin to the 5th Red Army Directorate about the attitude of foreign military attachés to the transfer of German troops from West to East, the interest of Germans in Eastern Europe, and their possible actions against the USSR and Great Britain (with an attached note from the 5th Red Army Directorate)

11 July 1940

Russian State Military Archive

coll. 37977, ser. 1, fold. 693, ff. 85–93.

Cipher telegram – certified copy, note – original

Marshal of the Soviet Union B. Shaposhnikov

1940s

Russian State Archives of Film and Photo Documents

Archive№ 2-104624.

Photograph

List of the leadership of the first operational-strategic exercise on maps

Before 20 December 1940

Russian State Military Archive

Coll. 37977, ser. 5, fold. 564, ff. 14–15.

Original