Berdichev

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

Report from Soviet People’s Commissar of Defence S. Timoshenko and Chief of the General Staff of the Red Army K. Meretskov to the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party regarding their conclusions about the strategic deployment of the Soviet Armed Forces in 1941

14 October 1940

Central Archive of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation

Coll. 16а, ser. 2951, fold. 242, ff. 84–90.

Original

Directive of the Wehrmacht High Command of the Army regarding the strategic concentration and deployment of troops in ‘Operation Barbarossa’

31 January 1941

Russian State Military Archive

coll. 1280k, ser. 2, fold. 26, ff. 14–22.

Copy. In German

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

10 April 1941

Central Archive of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation

Coll. 28, ser. 17, fold. 14, ff. 48–64v.

Original

Note from Soviet People’s Commissar of Defence S. Timoshenko and Chief of the General Staff of the Red Army G. Zhukov to J. Stalin with proposals for the plan of strategic deployment of the Soviet Armed Forces in the event of war with Germany and its allies

[15 May 1941]

Central Archive of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation

Coll. 16, ser. 2951, fold. 237, ff. 1–15.

Draft