Budyonny Semyon

1883 – 1973

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

Soviet First Deputy People’s Commissar of Defence S. Budyonny and Chief of the General Staff of the Red Army K. Meretskov

Kremlin, Moscow. 7 November 1940

Russian State Archives of Film and Photo Documents

Archive № А‑5845.

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

Special report by the Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Red Army ‘On the distribution of [German] armed forces in military theatres and fronts as of 15 May 1941’

15 May 1941

Central Archive of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation

Coll. 23, ser. 7237, fold. 2, ff. 109–113.

Certified copy

Entries in the log of visitors to J. Stalin’s Kremlin office on 21 June 1941

21 June 1941

Russian State Archive of Social and Political History

Coll. 558, ser. 11, fold. 413, f. 49.

Original

Draft secret resolution of the Politburo of the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee about the creation of the Southern Front, new appointments, and the armies of the second line of defences

21 June 1941

Russian State Archive of Contemporary History

Coll. 3, ser. 50, fold. 263, ff. 3–5.

Original. Autograph of M. Malenkov