Semyon Timoshenko(1895-1970)

Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko (18 February 1895 - 31 March 1970) was a Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union. Timoshenko was born in the village of Orman in the Bessarabia Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Furmanivka in Odessa Oblast, Ukraine). Timoshenko was an ethnic Ukrainian. After the war, Timoshenko was reappointed commander of the Baranovichi Military District (Byelorussian Military District since March 1946), then of the South Urals Military District (June 1946); and then the Byelorussian Military District once again (March 1949). In 1960, he was appointed Inspector-General of the Defence Ministry, a largely honorary post. From 1961 he chaired the State Committee for War Veterans.