The issue of Ukrainians Soviet generals’ losses in 1941 - 1945

A work is an important part scantily explored by political and ideological motives of Soviet historiography problems irretrievable losses of the generals’ corps of the Armed Forces of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War. The relevance of the topic is in the context of the ongoing counting casualties of Ukraine 1939 1945 years. Values of human life in the Soviet military actions, the contribution of the Ukrainian people in the defeat of Germany, character causes, scale and consequences of the loss of senior officers of the Red Army. Covered all the main categories of losses. It is told about 21 person killed in action as a result of impact of battle (firing) means during the Kyiv defensive operation, the battle of Kharkiv, the battle of Kursk, and a lot of other mainly strategic operations; about two people murdered by the Germans in captivity and two people shot due to political reasons in the USSR and afterwards rehabilitated (they did not participate in military actions), two people, who committed a suicide (to avoid being captivated), three people, who died of disease (two ones were from the effective armed forces), and one person, who died in an accident. Found on the basis of the exponential base commanders documents (personal affairs, accounting and service records of cards) and the Main Personnel Directorate of the Ministry of Defense Military Education (Moscow) and the Central Archives of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (Podolsk, Moscow region). In the scientific circulation introduced the figure of losses Ukrainians generals 31 person, but about the vast majority of them first learn how about Ukrainians. When considering the causes of losses drawn attention to the fact that a number of commanders could escape death if not for the political exercised by engagement, military incompetence of J. Stalin . Some commanders died due to their own inadvertence. Attention is paid to the question of national identity of an outstanding commander, the general of army I. D. Cherniakhovskyi, which has been actual for Ukrainian and Jewish people for the last 70 years. On the basis of the documents from Ukrainian and Russian archives, the version of his Jewish origin, set forth by certain scholars of Israel, the USA, Western Europe and Ukraine, is totally disproved. It is especially underlined that the determined cause of loss of Ukrainian generals is not final, because the plan of further research, dealing substantial bureaucratic barriers, in the archives of Russia, where the main array of documentary materials on the studied issue is concentrated, has been developed.