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| 1223 | Daniel |  |
| River Kalka 1st appearence of the Mongols in Russia |
| 1237 | Yurii II | |
| The Mongols return to Russia |
| 1395 | Lenk, Timur | |
| Vasily I repels an invasion by Timur Lenk |
| 1395 | Vasily I | |
| Vasily I repels an invasion by Timur Lenk |
| 1408 | Vasily I | |
| Becomes a Tartar vassal to Khan Edigu |
| 1581 | Ivan IV the Terrible | |
| Stephen Bathory of Poland invades Russia |
| 1617 | Michael | |
| The Poles attack Russia because they do not recognize Michael as Tsar |
| 1788 | Catherine II the Great | |
| St Petersberg Sweden invades 150 miles away from St Petersburg |
| 1810 | Alexander I | |
| 14th July Polotsk Leaves Polotsk on the advice of his generals |
| 1918 | Trotsky, Leon | |
| 21st Feb German & Austrian troops resume their offensive against Russia |
| 21st Feb Trotsky requests French military help |
| 1920 | Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov | |
| 25th April Poland invades Russia |
| 1939 | Zhukov, Georgi Konstantinovich | |
| 11th May Nomonhan Japanese attacks on disputed border areas is renewed between Japanese and Russia |
| 1941 | Budenny, Semyon Mikhaylovich | |
| Ukraine Has 69 Divisions to hold the Ukraine |
| 1941 | Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich | |
| 22nd June Moscow Announces over the radio to the Russian people that Germany has invaded Russia |
| 1941 | Stalin, Joseph | |
| 3rd April Churchill warns Stalin the Germans had regrouped in order to invade Russia |
| 21st June All forces are placed on alert |
| 22nd June 3 million German soldiers attack the Soviet army of 5.7 million, 2.5 of them in the west, in the coming weeks, Stalin mobilizes some 10 million reservists |
| 22nd June At 3:40 German planes bomb Russian border cities |
| 22nd June Stalin is so demoralized by the German invasion that he remains drunk for 11 days |
| 26th June Builds a reserve front 300 km behind the front |
| 26th June The western front is broken & the Germans charge towards Minsk |
| 29th June The Central Commitee declares this the "Great Fatherland War" |
| July By mid July Russia has lost 3,500 tanks, 6,000 aircraft & 2 million men |
| 3rd July Moscow Warns Russia of the danger of the German invasion during a broadcast |
| 5th Oct Stalin calls an emergency session of the State Defence Committee |
| 17th Nov Orders Red Army units to destroy all houses & farms 40 miles behind the German lines |
| 1941 | Timoshenko, Semyon | |
| 21st June Timoshenko & Zhukov co-sign the order to put all forces on alert |
| 20th Nov Rostov on Don Kleist's Panzers seize a bridge over the Don but are forced back by Timoshenko |
| 1941 | Vatutin, Nikolai Fyodorovich | |
| 22nd June Informs the Politburo of the invasion by German forces |
| 1941 | Zhukov, Georgi Konstantinovich | |
| 25th Feb Zhukov issues a secret directive naming Germany as a probable enemyand instructs frontier regions to make preparations |
| 21st June Timoshenko & Zhukov co-sign the order to put all forces on alert |
| 22nd June Kiel Ordered by Stalin to begin counter-offensve operations |
| 24th June Kiel Sends the 8th & 15th mechanized corps on the offensive |
| 1942 | Stalin, Joseph | |
| 5th Jan Moscow Plans a counter-offensive at the meeting of the Stavka & State Defence Committee |
