Historical place archive

Eastern Europe in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Eastern Europe in Russia. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

2 records2 event labels1 people1944–1945

Historical events in Eastern Europe

1944

1944
Fourth Ukrainian Front Political Work
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev · World War, 2nd

Serves in senior political administration as Soviet forces advance through Eastern Europe.

1945

1945
End of Wartime Political Service
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev · World War, 2nd

Ends the European war as a senior political officer with the rank of major general.

Provenance

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These entries are generated from stored World History Database records whose country and place fields match Russia and Eastern Europe. Names, dates, event labels and descriptions are reviewed and normalised as the database develops. Historical place names may not match modern administrative boundaries.

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