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State Defense Committee

GKO was created on June 30, 1941, a week after the invasion of the Soviet Union by the Nazi Germany and by a compound decision of the Presidium of Supreme Soviet of USSR, Council of People's Commissars of USSR, and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.



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Myrzakan Subanov

Myrzakan Usurkanovich Subanov (Kyrgyz and Russian: Мырзакан Усурканович Субанов; born 15 October 1944) is a Soviet and Kyrgyzstani military leader who served as post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan's chairman of the State Defense Committee in 1992-1993 and first Minister of Defense in 1993-1999.

Vasily Pronin

As a member of the Military Council of the Moscow Military District and Moscow Zone of Defense, Vasily Pronin together with the first secretary of the Moscow City Council and Moscow City Committee of the Communist Party Alexander Shcherbakov rendered great assistance to the State Defense Committee and Western Front command in organizing the defense of the capital in the fall and winter of 1941.