Semyon Timoshenko

Semyon Timoshenko. Self: One Inch from Victory. Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko (18 February 1895 - 31 March 1970) was a Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union. Timoshenko was born in the village of Orman in the Bessarabia Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Furmanivka in Odessa Oblast, Ukraine). Timoshenko was an ethnic Ukrainian. After the war, Timoshenko was reappointed commander of the Baranovichi Military District (Byelorussian Military District...