Vasily Volsky

Vasily Timofeyevich Volsky (Russian: Василий Тимофе́евич Во́льский; 10 March 1897 in Tula Province, Russia – 22 February 1946 in Moscow, Soviet Union) was a General of Soviet tank forces.

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Russian. (May 2023) Click [show] for important translation instructions.

Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Russian Wikipedia article at [[:ru:Вольский, Василий Тимофеевич]]; see its history for attribution.
You may also add the template {{Translated|ru|Вольский, Василий Тимофеевич}} to the talk page.
For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

From 1939–1941, Volsky headed the Soviet Union's Academy of Mechanisation and Motorisation. He then rose to command the 4th Mechanised Corps, which he led at the Battle of Stalingrad in late 1942. Initially Volsky had concerns over the planned Operation Uranus, going as far as to write Joseph Stalin a personal letter "as a good communist" warning him that the attack would fail.^[1] After a meeting with Stalin, Volsky retracted his letter and the Corps assisted in the encirclement and destruction of the Romanian army commanded by Gebele.

During 1943, Volsky commanded the 3rd Guards Tank Corps; in 1944, promoted to Colonel General, he was appointed the commander of 5th Guards Tank Army, replacing Pavel Rotmistrov.

Volsky, suffering from tuberculosis, was hospitalized in March 1945. He died on 22 February 1946 in Moscow.

Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege (1999) by Antony Beevor.

[1]
Beevor, p.250

This biographical article related to the Russian military is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Russian. (May 2023) Click [show] for important translation instructions.

Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Russian Wikipedia article at [[:ru:Вольский, Василий Тимофеевич]]; see its history for attribution.
You may also add the template {{Translated|ru|Вольский, Василий Тимофеевич}} to the talk page.
For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

During 1943, Volsky commanded the 3rd Guards Tank Corps; in 1944, promoted to Colonel General, he was appointed the commander of 5th Guards Tank Army, replacing Pavel Rotmistrov.

Volsky, suffering from tuberculosis, was hospitalized in March 1945. He died on 22 February 1946 in Moscow.

Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege (1999) by Antony Beevor.

[1]
Beevor, p.250

This biographical article related to the Russian military is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Wikiwand in your browser!

Wikiwand in your browser!

References

Footnotes