Konstantin Golubev

  • World War I
  • Russian Civil War
  • World War II
    • Operation Barbarossa
    • Battle of Smolensk (1943)

Konstantin Dmitryevich Golubev (27 March 1896 – 9 June 1956) was a Soviet general and army commander.

He was born in Petrovsk, Saratov Governorate (in present-day Saratov Oblast). He fought in World War I in the Imperial Russian Army before going over to the Bolsheviks. He was a recipient of the Order of Lenin, the Order of the Red Banner, the Order of Kutuzov, the Medal "For the Defence of Moscow", the Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", the Medal "For the Victory over Japan", the Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army", the Jubilee Medal "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy" and the Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow". He also received the Virtuti Militari and the Order of the Cross of Grunwald from Poland. He died in Moscow.

Preceded by
Stepan Akimov
 Commander of the Soviet 43rd Army
29 October 1941 – 22 May 1944 		Succeeded by
Afanasy Beloborodov

Sources

  • Коллектив авторов. «Великая Отечественная. Командармы. Военный биографический словарь» — М.; Жуковский: Кучково поле, 2005. ISBN 5-86090-113-5
  • Константин Дмитриевич Голубев с бойцами 34-й отдельной роты охраны военного совета 43-й армии.