Kirill Meretskov

Kirill Afanasievich Meretskov (;  – 30 Disember 1968) ialah seorang panglima tentera Soviet. Beliau menyertai Parti Komunis pada tahun 1917 dan berkhidmat dalam Tentera Merah sejak 1920. Semasa Perang Musim Sejuk 1939–1940 menentang Finland, beliau ditugaskan untuk menembusi Garisan Mannerheim sebagai panglima Tentera Darat Ke-7. Tidak lama selepas itu, beliau dianugerahkan gelaran Wira Kesatuan Soviet.

NKVD telah menangkap Meretskov pada permulaan pencerobohan ke atas Kesatuan Soviet. Dibebaskan dua bulan kemudian, beliau kembali mengetuai Tentera Darat Ke-7 dan kemudiannya Barisan Volkhov semasa pengepungan Leningrad 1941–1944. Beliau memimpin Barisan Karelia mulai Februari 1944, terutamanya dalam Penyerangan Petsamo–Kirkenes pada Oktober 1944. Mulai April 1945, beliau ditugaskan ke Timur Jauh, di mana beliau mengetuai sebuah Barisan semasa pencerobohan Soviet ke atas Manchuria Jepun. Semasa perang, beliau mencapai pangkat Marsyal Kesatuan Soviet.Meretskov K. A.; di warheroes.ru

Tarikh kenaikkan pangkat
 Komdiv (Komander Divisyen)—20 November 1935
 Komkor (Komander Kor)—22 Februari 1938
 Komandarm Pangkat Kedua (Komander Ketumbukan)—8 Februari 1939
 General armii 
(Jeneral Ketumbukan)—4 Jun 1940
 Marshal sovetskogo soyuza (Marsyal Kesatuan Soviet)—26 Oktober 1944

Anugerah kebesaran
Soviet Union
20pxHero of the Soviet Union (No. 242–21 March 1940)60pxOrder of Victory (No. 18–8 September 1945)60pxSeven Order of Lenin (3 January 1937, 21 March 1940, 2 November 1944, 21 February 1945, 6 June 1947, 6 June 1957, 6 June 1967)60pxOrder of the October Revolution (22 February 1968)60pxOrder of the Red Banner, four times (22 February 1928, 2 March 1938, 3 November 1944, 6 November 1947)60pxOrder of Kutuzov, 1st class (29 June 1944)60pxOrder of Suvorov, 1st class (27 August 1943)60pxMedal "For the Defence of Leningrad" (22 December 1942)60pxMedal "For the Defence of the Soviet Transarctic" (5 December 1944)60pxMedal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (9 May 1945)60pxMedal "For the Victory over Japan" (30 September 1945)60pxJubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945" (7 May 1965)60pxJubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army" (22 February 1938)60pxJubilee Medal "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy" (22 February 1948)60pxJubilee Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" (18 December 1957)60pxJubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" (26 December 1967)60pxMedal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow" (20 September 1947)60pxMedal "In Commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of Leningrad" (16 May 1957)

Anugerah asing
60pxOrder of the Cloud and Banner with Special Grand Cordon (Republic of China, 1945)60pxMedal "For Victory over Japan" (Mongolian People's Republic, 1946)60pxOrder of the National Flag, 1st class (North Korea, 1948)60pxMedal for the Liberation of Korea (North Korea, 1948)60pxKnight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Olav (Norway, 1945)60pxLegion of Merit, Chief Commander (US, 1946)

Dalam budaya popular
Meretskov is a character in the 2009 novel The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared.

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 Pautan luar 
 Kirill Meretskov (in Russian)
 Biography, Kirill Meretskov (HRONO) (in Russian)


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