Atlas of Battles

commander, 14 engagements

Battles of Aleksandr Michajlovič Vasilevskij

Battles of Aleksandr Michajlovič Vasilevskij

Marshal of the Soviet Union (1895-1977)

Aleksandr Michajlovič Vasilevskij is recorded as a commander at 14 placed engagements in the atlas between 1942 and 1946: 8 battles and 6 campaigns across 6 present-day countries, most in Russia (8), China (2), Japan (1). Taken in date order, the sites lie 22,218 km apart end to end, 1,709 km between engagements on average. Most belong to World War II (10), Pacific War (2), Soviet–Japanese War (1).

Japan CampaignCase BlueOperation Winter StormVoronezh–Kastornoye OffensiveBattle of the DnieperEast Prussian OffensiveHeiligenbeil PocketBattle of KönigsbergOpening CampaignBattle of StalingradOperation UranusOperation BagrationSoviet invasion of ManchuriaSoviet–Japanese WarBattle of StalingradOperation UranusOperation BagrationSoviet invasion of ManchuriaŌsakaManilaSeoulTehranTaipeiBengaluruBangkokBaghdadChengduÜrümqi5000 km42.858N, 81.471E
14 placed engagements, coloured by era. Present-day coastlines; ringed marks are the most widely documented.

Engagements by year

1942: 4 engagements1943: 3 engagements1944: 1 engagements1945: 5 engagements5 in 19451946: 1 engagements19421946
14 dated engagements, one bar per year, coloured by era.

In time order

Japan Campaign, 1942Battle of Stalingrad, 1942Case Blue, 1942Operation Winter Storm, 1942Voronezh–Kastornoye Offensive, 1943Operation Uranus, 1943Battle of the Dnieper, 1943Operation Bagration, 1944East Prussian Offensive, 1945Heiligenbeil Pocket, 1945Battle of Königsberg, 1945Soviet invasion of Manchuria, 1945Soviet–Japanese War, 1945Opening Campaign, 194619421946
One tick per dated engagement; each tick is a link.

Wars 4

Engagements by date

DateEngagementPlaceFrom the lastResult
1942Japan CampaignMainland Japan, JapanAllied victory
23 August 1942Battle of StalingradVolgograd, Russia7,266 km NWSoviet victory
1942Case BlueRostov-on-Don, Russia395 km SWSoviet victory
1942Operation Winter StormVolgograd, Russia394 km NESoviet victory
1943Voronezh–Kastornoye OffensiveVoronezh, Russia501 km NWSoviet victory
1943Operation UranusVolgograd, Russia502 km SESoviet victory
1943Battle of the DnieperDnieper, Ukraine948 km WSoviet victory
1944Operation BagrationByelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Belarus866 km NSoviet victory
1945East Prussian OffensiveEast Prussia, Poland555 km WSoviet victory
26 January 1945Heiligenbeil PocketEast Prussia, Russia46 km SWSoviet victory
6 April 1945Battle of KönigsbergKönigsberg, Russia47 km NESoviet victory
1945Soviet invasion of ManchuriaInner Manchuria, China6,514 km NESoviet victory
1945Soviet–Japanese WarManchukuo, Russia1,301 km ESoviet victory
1946Opening CampaignEast China, China2,884 km SWCommunists retreat to northeastern China, Partial...

Sources and method

Commanders come from the commander fields of the English Wikipedia infoboxes of these engagements (CC BY-SA 4.0), resolved to one article each; portrait, dates and description from Wikidata (CC0) and Wikimedia Commons, Unknown authorUnknown author, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Distances are great-circle distances between recorded sites, not marches.