Valerian A. Frolov

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Frolov Valerian Alexandrovich
26 May 1895, St.Petersburg – 6 January 1961, Leningrad
Place of birth St.Petersburg, Russian Empire
Place of death Leningrad, Soviet Union (now Russia)
Allegiance Communist Party from 1919
Years of service 1916-1956
Rank Colonel General
Commands held 14th Army, Karelian Front, Belomorsky Military District, Arkhangelsk Military District
Battles/wars World War II
Awards thrice Order of Lenin (see article)

Valerian Alexandrovich Frolov (1895, Petrograd - 1961, Leningrad) was a Soviet Colonel General (1943). Frolov participated in the First World War, the Russian Civil War, and the Soviet-Finnish war as an Army commander, and during the Second World War as the commander of the 14th Army, and from September 1941 to February 1944, the Karelian Front. After the war from 1945 to 1956 commanded the troops of Belomorsky Military District and Arkhangelsk Military District. From 1956 he was placed in reserve..

[edit] Awards

  • thrice Order of Lenin
  • Order of Kutuzov 1st class
  • Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky 1st class
  • four times Order of Red Banner
  • Order of Red Star

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