during the interwar period , georgy fedorovich went from battalion commander to chief of staff of theistrict. on the eve of the great patriotic war, forty-two-year-old zakharov was perhaps one of the most highly educated soviet military leaders. marshal of the soviet union eremenko, who in july 1941 was deputy commander of the troops of the western front, 18 years later, zakharov will remember, an operationally well -trained very fighting man, a man who from the first days... of the war, the great patriotic war at the front, he he had to be beaten and win, so he, of course, had accumulated the appropriate team experience, shortly before his appointment commander of the troops of the second belarusian front, he was awarded the order of the great , first degree, and received the rank of colonel general for yet another successful military operation. history of the second belarusian front. begins on february 17, 1944, when, strictly speaking, it was formed. he took part in the polesie offensive operation, which took place from march 15 to april 5, 1944, during which the enemy’s kovel grou