Word: suvorov
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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This picture of a class in the Suvorov Military Academy at Kalinin illustrates dominant features of Soviet education since Marshal Stalin abolished coeduca tion (TIME, Aug. 1 6). It is one of nine cadet schools named for the 18th century Russian Field Marshal Alexander Vasilievich Suvorov. Eligible for the school's seven-year course are 10-to-13-year-old sons of Red soldiers, and any boy orphaned by the Germans. Their days are scheduled from 6:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., with three leisure hours. During the war there are no holidays. Studies include tactics, firearms, military history...
...Ukraine, the action was old-time Blitzkrieg in reverse, with the Red Army's performance as spectacular as anything the Wehrmacht has yet shown. Thus, Zhitomir fell to a cavalry corps of three divisions under Lieut. General Victor Baranov (who, for the feat, received the coveted Order of Suvorov, First Class) and a tank army under Lieut. General Pavel Rybalko, who won fame in last winter's campaign. So fast were these generals moving (120 miles in nine days) that happy Moscow gave their chief, General Nikolai Vatutin, a fond nickname: Molnya -Lightning...
...cannon of Moscow also rolled for the leaders-the seven hard, able, aggressive men in command of the seven active fronts. Five of them had proved their mettle in the battle for Stalingrad. On all chests but two glistened the Order of Suvorov, First Class, which Stalin last January awarded to 23 of his best generals. The seven...
...tank successes, Lieut. General Vassily Mikhailovich Badanov this week received the Order of Suvorov, a new decoration for commanders. Commander of the drive down the Rostov railway was one of the few Russian soldiers known in the U.S.: Lieut. General Filip Ivanovich Golikov, who headed a Soviet military mission in Washington...