Kiev

List of the Red Army commanders reinstated to their positions after being liberated from imprisonment

29 June 1940

Russian State Military Archive

Coll. 37837, ser. 18, fold. 888, ff. 31–34.

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

Military Commander of the Kiev Military District G. Zhukov, Chief of the General Staff of the Red Army K. Meretskov and Soviet People’s Commissar of Defence S. Timoshenko at troop exercises in the Kiev Military District

September 1940

Russian State Archives of Film and Photo Documents

Archive № 0-180097d.

Photograph

Draft directive of the Soviet People’s Commissariat of Defence for developing a plan for the rapid deployment of the armies of the Kiev Military District

28 November 1940

Central Archive of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation

Coll. 28, ser. 17, fold. 6, ff. 1–18.

Original

Excerpt from the protocol of a meeting held by А. Hitler: a report by Chief of Staff of the Wehrmacht High Command of the Army F. Halder about the planned operation in the East

5 December 1940

Russian State Military Archive

coll. 1280k, ser. 2, fold. 26, ff. 5–6.

Copy. In German

Directive of the Wehrmacht High Command № 21 ‘Version “Barbarossa”’

18 December 1940

Bundesarchiv

BArch RM 7/962 Bl. 209–217.

Original

Directive of the Wehrmacht High Command № 21 ‘Version “Barbarossa”’

18 December 1940

State Archives of the Russian Federation

coll. R-7021, ser. 148, fold. 208, ff. 46-49.

Translation from German, contemporary to the original

Directive of А. Hitler № 21 ‘Operation Barbarossa’, presented by former Wehrmacht General A. Jodl to the Commission of Major General N. Trusov, accompanied by a cover letter from the Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Red Army of 2 June 1945

18 December 1940

Russian State Archive of Contemporary History

Coll. 3, ser. 58, fold. 460, ff. 1, 3–9.

Copy. Russian translation.

Cover letter – original.

Map Operation ‘Barbarossa’

[1940]

Central Archive of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation

Press proof