1945. The death of General Chernyakhovsky
70 years ago, on February 18, 1945, near the East Prem city of Melzak (now Penezhozhno, Poland), the commander of the 3rd Belarusian Front, Army General Ivan Danilovich Chernyakhovsky, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, was mortally wounded with a fragment of the shell. At 38, he was the youngest front commander in the Red Army.