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	'''Grigory Mikhailovich Shtern''' ({{~~lang-~~ru\|Григорий Михайлович Штерн}}; {{OldStyleDate\|6 August\|1900\|24 July}} – 28 October 1941) was a [[Soviet Union\|Soviet]] officer in the [[Red Army]] and military advisor during the [[Spanish Civil War]]. He also served with distinction during the [[Soviet-Japanese Border Wars]] and the [[Winter War]]. The Soviet authorities accused him of treason and had him shot during Stalin's [[1941 Red Army Purge\|military purge]] of 1941.		'''Grigory Mikhailovich Shtern''' ({{langx\|ru\|Григорий Михайлович Штерн}}; {{OldStyleDate\|6 August\|1900\|24 July}} – 28 October 1941) was a [[Soviet Union\|Soviet]] officer in the [[Red Army]] and military advisor during the [[Spanish Civil War]]. He also served with distinction during the [[Soviet-Japanese Border Wars]] and the [[Winter War]]. The Soviet authorities accused him of treason and had him shot during Stalin's [[1941 Red Army Purge\|military purge]] of 1941.

	==Career==		==Career==

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			* [[Soviet–Japanese border conflicts\|Soviet–Japanese Border Wars]]
		⚫	** [[Battle of Lake Khasan]]
		⚫	** [[Battle of Khalkhin Gol]]
	* [[World War II]]		* [[World War II]]
	** [[Soviet–Japanese border conflicts]]
⚫	*** [[Battle of Lake Khasan]]
⚫	*** [[Battle of Khalkhin Gol]]
	** [[Winter War]]		** [[Winter War]]
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	\| name = Grigory ~~Mikhailovich~~ Shtern		\| name = Grigory Shtern
	\| birth_date = {{OldStyleDate\|6 August\|1900\|24 July}}		\| birth_date = {{OldStyleDate\|6 August\|1900\|24 July}}
	\| death_date = {{death date and age\|1941\|10\|28\|1900\|07\|24\|df=y}}		\| death_date = {{death date and age\|1941\|10\|28\|1900\|07\|24\|df=y}}

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	'''Grigory Mikhailovich Shtern''' ({{lang-ru\|Григорий Михайлович Штерн}}; {{OldStyleDate\|6 August\|1900\|24 July}} – 28 October 1941) was a [[Soviet Union\|Soviet]] officer in the [[Red Army]] and military advisor during the [[Spanish Civil War]]. He also served with distinction during the [[Soviet-Japanese Border Wars]] and the [[Winter War]]. The Soviet authorities accused him of treason and had him shot during Stalin's [[~~Purge of the~~ Red Army ~~in 1941~~\|military purge]] of 1941.		'''Grigory Mikhailovich Shtern''' ({{lang-ru\|Григорий Михайлович Штерн}}; {{OldStyleDate\|6 August\|1900\|24 July}} – 28 October 1941) was a [[Soviet Union\|Soviet]] officer in the [[Red Army]] and military advisor during the [[Spanish Civil War]]. He also served with distinction during the [[Soviet-Japanese Border Wars]] and the [[Winter War]]. The Soviet authorities accused him of treason and had him shot during Stalin's [[1941 Red Army Purge\|military purge]] of 1941.

	==Career==		==Career==

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	\| image = Shtern.jpg		\| image = Shtern.jpg
	\| birth_place = [[~~Smila, Ukraine\|~~Smila]], [[Russian Empire]]		\| birth_place = [[Smila]], [[Russian Empire]]
	\| death_place = [[Samara\|Kuibyshev]], [[Russian SFSR]], [[Soviet Union]]		\| death_place = [[Samara\|Kuibyshev]], [[Russian SFSR]], [[Soviet Union]]
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	==Career==		==Career==

	Shtern was born into a [[Jewish]] family in [[~~Smila, Ukraine\|~~Smila]], [[Kiev Governorate]] in 1900. He started his military career as a [[Commissar]] of a [[Red Army]] [[brigade]] in 1919, the same year he joined the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union\|Communist Party]]. Shtern graduated from the [[M. V. Frunze Military Academy\|Military Academy of the Red Army]] in 1929 and worked for the [[People's Commissariat for Military Affairs]]. He was appointed commander of the [[7th Cavalry Division (Soviet Union)\|7th Cavalry Division]] in 1936. Shtern served as a Soviet [[Military Advisor\|military advisor]] to the [[Spanish Republican Army]] during the [[Spanish Civil War]] between January 1937 to April 1938.{{Sfn\|Kilin\|Raunio\|2007\|p=113}}		Shtern was born into a [[Jewish]] family in [[Smila]], [[Kiev Governorate]] in 1900. He started his military career as a [[Commissar]] of a [[Red Army]] [[brigade]] in 1919, the same year he joined the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union\|Communist Party]]. Shtern graduated from the [[M. V. Frunze Military Academy\|Military Academy of the Red Army]] in 1929 and worked for the [[People's Commissariat for Military Affairs]]. He was appointed commander of the [[7th Cavalry Division (Soviet Union)\|7th Cavalry Division]] in 1936. Shtern served as a Soviet [[Military Advisor\|military advisor]] to the [[Spanish Republican Army]] during the [[Spanish Civil War]] between January 1937 to April 1938.{{Sfn\|Kilin\|Raunio\|2007\|p=113}}

	After returning from Spain, Shtern became chief of staff of the [[Far Eastern Front]],<ref name=":0">{{Cite web\|url=http://www.warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=2297\|title=Штерн Григорий Михайлович\|last=Ufarkin\|first=Nikolai\|website=www.warheroes.ru\|language=ru\|access-date=2019-06-26}}</ref> commanded by [[Vasily Blyukher]], who would soon be executed in the [[Great Purge]]. During the July and August 1938 [[Battle of Lake Khasan]], Shtern was given command of operations after Blyukher's initial counterattack failed. He attacked the Japanese troops on the disputed ridge with numerically superior forces and slowly pushed them back. The pressure of the Soviet attack forced the Japanese to a cease-fire on 11 August as they could not hold the ridge without widening the conflict. On 31 August Stalin decided to abolish the Far Eastern Front as he felt it had not "proved its worth", and Shtern was given command of the new [[1st Red Banner Army]].{{Sfn\|Ziemke\|2004\|p=\|pp=211{{endash}}214}} On 9 February 1939 he was promoted to [[Komandarm 2nd rank]].<ref name=":0" />		After returning from Spain, Shtern became chief of staff of the [[Far Eastern Front]],<ref name=":0">{{Cite web\|url=http://www.warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=2297\|title=Штерн Григорий Михайлович\|last=Ufarkin\|first=Nikolai\|website=www.warheroes.ru\|language=ru\|access-date=2019-06-26}}</ref> commanded by [[Vasily Blyukher]], who would soon be executed in the [[Great Purge]]. During the July and August 1938 [[Battle of Lake Khasan]], Shtern was given command of operations after Blyukher's initial counterattack failed. He attacked the Japanese troops on the disputed ridge with numerically superior forces and slowly pushed them back. The pressure of the Soviet attack forced the Japanese to a cease-fire on 11 August as they could not hold the ridge without widening the conflict. On 31 August Stalin decided to abolish the Far Eastern Front as he felt it had not "proved its worth", and Shtern was given command of the new [[1st Red Banner Army]].{{Sfn\|Ziemke\|2004\|p=\|pp=211{{endash}}214}} On 9 February 1939 he was promoted to [[Komandarm 2nd rank]].<ref name=":0" />
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	During the [[Winter War]] between [[Finland]] and the Soviet Union, Shtern became commander of the [[8th Army (Soviet Union)\|8th Army]] on 12 December 1939. After the Winter War, the Red Army restored traditional [[Military rank\|military ranks]], and Shtern was promoted to [[Colonel General]] on 5 June 1940. He was appointed commander of the Far Eastern Front on 22 June 1940.{{Sfn\|Kilin\|Raunio\|2007\|p=113}}		During the [[Winter War]] between [[Finland]] and the Soviet Union, Shtern became commander of the [[8th Army (Soviet Union)\|8th Army]] on 12 December 1939. After the Winter War, the Red Army restored traditional [[Military rank\|military ranks]], and Shtern was promoted to [[Colonel General]] on 5 June 1940. He was appointed commander of the Far Eastern Front on 22 June 1940.{{Sfn\|Kilin\|Raunio\|2007\|p=113}}

	Shtern was arrested on 7 June 1941 during a [[~~Purge of the~~ Red Army ~~in 1941~~\|new purge of the Red Army]]. After being struck by the notorious torturer [[Lev Shvartzman]] with an electric cable with such force that it severed his right eye,<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Murphy \|first1=David E. \|title=What Stalin Knew: The Enigma of Barbarossa \|date=2005 \|publisher=Yale U.P. \|location=New Haven \|isbn=0-300-10780-3 \|page=229}}</ref> he "confessed" that he had belonged to a [[Trotskyism\|Trotskyist]] conspiracy within the Red Army from 1931, and that he was a [[Nazi Germany\|German]] spy. He was shot without trial on 28 October. Shtern was posthumously [[Rehabilitation (Soviet)\|rehabilitated]] in August 1954.{{Sfn\|Kilin\|Raunio\|2007\|p=113}}{{sfn\|Bortakovsky\|2012\|p=214-215}}		Shtern was arrested on 7 June 1941 during a [[1941 Red Army Purge\|new purge of the Red Army]]. After being struck by the notorious torturer [[Lev Shvartzman]] with an electric cable with such force that it severed his right eye,<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Murphy \|first1=David E. \|title=What Stalin Knew: The Enigma of Barbarossa \|date=2005 \|publisher=Yale U.P. \|location=New Haven \|isbn=0-300-10780-3 \|page=229}}</ref> he "confessed" that he had belonged to a [[Trotskyism\|Trotskyist]] conspiracy within the Red Army from 1931, and that he was a [[Nazi Germany\|German]] spy. He was shot without trial on 28 October. Shtern was posthumously [[Rehabilitation (Soviet)\|rehabilitated]] in August 1954.{{Sfn\|Kilin\|Raunio\|2007\|p=113}}{{sfn\|Bortakovsky\|2012\|p=214-215}}

	==Awards and honors==		==Awards and honors==

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	After returning from Spain, Shtern became chief of staff of the [[Far Eastern Front]],<ref name=":0">{{Cite web\|url=http://www.warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=2297\|title=Штерн Григорий Михайлович\|last=Ufarkin\|first=Nikolai\|website=www.warheroes.ru\|language=ru\|access-date=2019-06-26}}</ref> commanded by [[Vasily Blyukher]], who would soon be executed in the [[Great Purge]]. During the July and August 1938 [[Battle of Lake Khasan]], Shtern was given command of operations after Blyukher's initial counterattack failed. He attacked the Japanese troops on the disputed ridge with numerically superior forces and slowly pushed them back. The pressure of the Soviet attack forced the Japanese to a cease-fire on 11 August as they could not hold the ridge without widening the conflict. On 31 August Stalin decided to abolish the Far Eastern Front as he felt it had not "proved its worth", and Shtern was given command of the new [[1st Red Banner Army]].{{Sfn\|Ziemke\|2004\|p=\|pp=211{{endash}}214}} On 9 February 1939 he was promoted to [[Komandarm 2nd rank]].<ref name=":0" />		After returning from Spain, Shtern became chief of staff of the [[Far Eastern Front]],<ref name=":0">{{Cite web\|url=http://www.warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=2297\|title=Штерн Григорий Михайлович\|last=Ufarkin\|first=Nikolai\|website=www.warheroes.ru\|language=ru\|access-date=2019-06-26}}</ref> commanded by [[Vasily Blyukher]], who would soon be executed in the [[Great Purge]]. During the July and August 1938 [[Battle of Lake Khasan]], Shtern was given command of operations after Blyukher's initial counterattack failed. He attacked the Japanese troops on the disputed ridge with numerically superior forces and slowly pushed them back. The pressure of the Soviet attack forced the Japanese to a cease-fire on 11 August as they could not hold the ridge without widening the conflict. On 31 August Stalin decided to abolish the Far Eastern Front as he felt it had not "proved its worth", and Shtern was given command of the new [[1st Red Banner Army]].{{Sfn\|Ziemke\|2004\|p=\|pp=211{{endash}}214}} On 9 February 1939 he was promoted to [[Komandarm 2nd rank]].<ref name=":0" />

	[[File:SternGM.jpg\|thumb\|300px\|G. Shtern, [[Khorloogiin Choibalsan]] and [[Georgy Zhukov]] at [[Battle of Khalkhin Gol\|Khalkhin Gol]]]]
	After a series of border incidents in the spring and early summer of 1939 escalated into the [[Battles of Khalkhin Gol]], Shtern was given command on 5 July of a "front group", which coordinated all Soviet forces in the Far East. The front group oversaw future World War II commander [[Georgy Zhukov]]'s 57th Special Rifle Corps, fighting at Khalkhin Gol, but on 19 July the corps was converted into the 1st Soviet Mongolian Army Group and given operational independence from Shtern's command, in order that Zhukov could act without interference from Shtern and on direct orders from the [[Soviet General Staff\|General Staff]].{{Sfn\|Roberts\|2012\|p=\|pp=54{{endash}}55}} According to British military historian [[Geoffrey Roberts]], Shtern played a central role in planning the Soviet counterattack in August, but Zhukov was its chief organizer and executor. Shtern was awarded the title [[Hero of the Soviet Union]] on 29 August 1939, for his "courage and bravery in the performance of military duties"<ref name=":0" /> at Khalkhin Gol.{{Sfn\|Roberts\|2012\|pp=59{{endash}}60}}		After a series of border incidents in the spring and early summer of 1939 escalated into the [[Battles of Khalkhin Gol]], Shtern was given command on 5 July of a "front group", which coordinated all Soviet forces in the Far East. The front group oversaw future World War II commander [[Georgy Zhukov]]'s 57th Special Rifle Corps, fighting at Khalkhin Gol, but on 19 July the corps was converted into the 1st Soviet Mongolian Army Group and given operational independence from Shtern's command, in order that Zhukov could act without interference from Shtern and on direct orders from the [[Soviet General Staff\|General Staff]].{{Sfn\|Roberts\|2012\|p=\|pp=54{{endash}}55}} According to British military historian [[Geoffrey Roberts]], Shtern played a central role in planning the Soviet counterattack in August, but Zhukov was its chief organizer and executor. Shtern was awarded the title [[Hero of the Soviet Union]] on 29 August 1939, for his "courage and bravery in the performance of military duties"<ref name=":0" /> at Khalkhin Gol.{{Sfn\|Roberts\|2012\|pp=59{{endash}}60}}

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			* [[Russian Civil War]]
			* [[Spanish Civil War]]
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			** [[Soviet–Japanese border conflicts]]
			*** [[Battle of Lake Khasan]]
			*** [[Battle of Khalkhin Gol]]
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	During the [[Winter War]] between [[Finland]] and the Soviet Union, Shtern became commander of the [[8th Army (Soviet Union)\|8th Army]] on 12 December 1939. After the Winter War, the Red Army restored traditional [[Military rank\|military ranks]], and Shtern was promoted to [[Colonel General]] on 5 June 1940. He was appointed commander of the Far Eastern Front on 22 June 1940.{{Sfn\|Kilin\|Raunio\|2007\|p=113}}		During the [[Winter War]] between [[Finland]] and the Soviet Union, Shtern became commander of the [[8th Army (Soviet Union)\|8th Army]] on 12 December 1939. After the Winter War, the Red Army restored traditional [[Military rank\|military ranks]], and Shtern was promoted to [[Colonel General]] on 5 June 1940. He was appointed commander of the Far Eastern Front on 22 June 1940.{{Sfn\|Kilin\|Raunio\|2007\|p=113}}

	Shtern was arrested on 7 June 1941 during a [[Purge of the Red Army in 1941\|new purge of the Red Army]]. After being struck by the notorious torturer [[Lev Shvartzman]] with an electric cable with such force that it severed his right eye,<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Murphy \|first1=David E. \|title=What Stalin Knew: The Enigma of Barbarossa \|date=2005 \|publisher=Yale U.P. \|location=New Haven \|isbn=0-300-10780-3 \|page=229}}</ref> he "confessed" that he had belonged to a [[Trotskyism\|Trotskyist]] conspiracy within the Red Army from 1931, and that he was a [[Nazi Germany\|German]] spy. He was shot without trial on 28 October. Shtern was [[Rehabilitation (Soviet)\|rehabilitated]] in August 1954.{{Sfn\|Kilin\|Raunio\|2007\|p=113}}{{sfn\|Bortakovsky\|2012\|p=214-215}}		Shtern was arrested on 7 June 1941 during a [[Purge of the Red Army in 1941\|new purge of the Red Army]]. After being struck by the notorious torturer [[Lev Shvartzman]] with an electric cable with such force that it severed his right eye,<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Murphy \|first1=David E. \|title=What Stalin Knew: The Enigma of Barbarossa \|date=2005 \|publisher=Yale U.P. \|location=New Haven \|isbn=0-300-10780-3 \|page=229}}</ref> he "confessed" that he had belonged to a [[Trotskyism\|Trotskyist]] conspiracy within the Red Army from 1931, and that he was a [[Nazi Germany\|German]] spy. He was shot without trial on 28 October. Shtern was posthumously [[Rehabilitation (Soviet)\|rehabilitated]] in August 1954.{{Sfn\|Kilin\|Raunio\|2007\|p=113}}{{sfn\|Bortakovsky\|2012\|p=214-215}}

	==Awards and honors==		==Awards and honors==

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	During the [[Winter War]] between [[Finland]] and the Soviet Union, Shtern became commander of the [[8th Army (Soviet Union)\|8th Army]] on 12 December 1939. After the Winter War, the Red Army restored traditional [[Military rank\|military ranks]], and Shtern was promoted to [[Colonel General]] on 5 June 1940. He was appointed commander of the Far Eastern Front on 22 June 1940.{{Sfn\|Kilin\|Raunio\|2007\|p=113}}		During the [[Winter War]] between [[Finland]] and the Soviet Union, Shtern became commander of the [[8th Army (Soviet Union)\|8th Army]] on 12 December 1939. After the Winter War, the Red Army restored traditional [[Military rank\|military ranks]], and Shtern was promoted to [[Colonel General]] on 5 June 1940. He was appointed commander of the Far Eastern Front on 22 June 1940.{{Sfn\|Kilin\|Raunio\|2007\|p=113}}

	Shtern was ~~brutally beaten and~~ arrested ~~by the NKVD~~ on 7 June 1941 during a [[Purge of the Red Army in 1941\|new purge of the Red Army]]. After being struck by the notorious torturer [[Lev Shvartzman]] with an electric cable with such force that it severed his right eye,<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Murphy \|first1=David E. \|title=What Stalin Knew: The Enigma of Barbarossa \|date=2005 \|publisher=Yale U.P. \|location=New Haven \|isbn=0-300-10780-3 \|page=229}}</ref> he "confessed" that he had belonged to a [[Trotskyism\|Trotskyist]] conspiracy within the Red Army from 1931, and that he was a [[Nazi Germany\|German]] spy. He was shot without trial on 28 October. Shtern was [[Rehabilitation (Soviet)\|rehabilitated]] in August 1954.{{Sfn\|Kilin\|Raunio\|2007\|p=113}}{{sfn\|Bortakovsky\|2012\|p=214-215}}		Shtern was arrested on 7 June 1941 during a [[Purge of the Red Army in 1941\|new purge of the Red Army]]. After being struck by the notorious torturer [[Lev Shvartzman]] with an electric cable with such force that it severed his right eye,<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Murphy \|first1=David E. \|title=What Stalin Knew: The Enigma of Barbarossa \|date=2005 \|publisher=Yale U.P. \|location=New Haven \|isbn=0-300-10780-3 \|page=229}}</ref> he "confessed" that he had belonged to a [[Trotskyism\|Trotskyist]] conspiracy within the Red Army from 1931, and that he was a [[Nazi Germany\|German]] spy. He was shot without trial on 28 October. Shtern was [[Rehabilitation (Soviet)\|rehabilitated]] in August 1954.{{Sfn\|Kilin\|Raunio\|2007\|p=113}}{{sfn\|Bortakovsky\|2012\|p=214-215}}

	==Awards and honors==		==Awards and honors==

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	After returning from Spain, Shtern became chief of staff of the [[Far Eastern Front]],<ref name=":0">{{Cite web\|url=http://www.warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=2297\|title=Штерн Григорий Михайлович\|last=Ufarkin\|first=Nikolai\|website=www.warheroes.ru\|language=ru\|access-date=2019-06-26}}</ref> commanded by [[Vasily Blyukher]], who would soon be executed in the [[Great Purge]]. During the July and August 1938 [[Battle of Lake Khasan]], Shtern was given command of operations after Blyukher's initial counterattack failed. He attacked the Japanese troops on the disputed ridge with numerically superior forces and slowly pushed them back. The pressure of the Soviet attack forced the Japanese to a cease-fire on 11 August as they could not hold the ridge without widening the conflict. On 31 August Stalin decided to abolish the Far Eastern Front as he felt it had not "proved its worth", and Shtern was given command of the new [[1st Red Banner Army]].{{Sfn\|Ziemke\|2004\|p=\|pp=211{{endash}}214}} On 9 February 1939 he was promoted to [[Komandarm 2nd rank]].<ref name=":0" />		After returning from Spain, Shtern became chief of staff of the [[Far Eastern Front]],<ref name=":0">{{Cite web\|url=http://www.warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=2297\|title=Штерн Григорий Михайлович\|last=Ufarkin\|first=Nikolai\|website=www.warheroes.ru\|language=ru\|access-date=2019-06-26}}</ref> commanded by [[Vasily Blyukher]], who would soon be executed in the [[Great Purge]]. During the July and August 1938 [[Battle of Lake Khasan]], Shtern was given command of operations after Blyukher's initial counterattack failed. He attacked the Japanese troops on the disputed ridge with numerically superior forces and slowly pushed them back. The pressure of the Soviet attack forced the Japanese to a cease-fire on 11 August as they could not hold the ridge without widening the conflict. On 31 August Stalin decided to abolish the Far Eastern Front as he felt it had not "proved its worth", and Shtern was given command of the new [[1st Red Banner Army]].{{Sfn\|Ziemke\|2004\|p=\|pp=211{{endash}}214}} On 9 February 1939 he was promoted to [[Komandarm 2nd rank]].<ref name=":0" />

	[[File:SternGM.jpg\|thumb\|300px\|G. Shtern, [[Khorloogiin Choibalsan]] and [[Georgy Zhukov]] at [[Battle of Khalkhin Gol\|Khalkhin Gol]]]]
	After a series of border incidents in the spring and early summer of 1939 escalated into the [[Battles of Khalkhin Gol]], Shtern was given command on 5 July of a "front group", which coordinated all Soviet forces in the Far East. The front group oversaw future World War II commander [[Georgy Zhukov]]'s 57th Special Rifle Corps, fighting at Khalkhin Gol, but on 19 July the corps was converted into the 1st Soviet Mongolian Army Group and given operational independence from Shtern's command, in order that Zhukov could act without interference from Shtern and on direct orders from the [[Soviet General Staff\|General Staff]].{{Sfn\|Roberts\|2012\|p=\|pp=54{{endash}}55}} According to British military historian [[Geoffrey Roberts]], Shtern played a central role in planning the Soviet counterattack in August, but Zhukov was its chief organizer and executor. Shtern was awarded the title [[Hero of the Soviet Union]] on 29 August 1939, for his "courage and bravery in the performance of military duties"<ref name=":0" /> at Khalkhin Gol.{{Sfn\|Roberts\|2012\|pp=59{{endash}}60}}		After a series of border incidents in the spring and early summer of 1939 escalated into the [[Battles of Khalkhin Gol]], Shtern was given command on 5 July of a "front group", which coordinated all Soviet forces in the Far East. The front group oversaw future World War II commander [[Georgy Zhukov]]'s 57th Special Rifle Corps, fighting at Khalkhin Gol, but on 19 July the corps was converted into the 1st Soviet Mongolian Army Group and given operational independence from Shtern's command, in order that Zhukov could act without interference from Shtern and on direct orders from the [[Soviet General Staff\|General Staff]].{{Sfn\|Roberts\|2012\|p=\|pp=54{{endash}}55}} According to British military historian [[Geoffrey Roberts]], Shtern played a central role in planning the Soviet counterattack in August, but Zhukov was its chief organizer and executor. Shtern was awarded the title [[Hero of the Soviet Union]] on 29 August 1939, for his "courage and bravery in the performance of military duties"<ref name=":0" /> at Khalkhin Gol.{{Sfn\|Roberts\|2012\|pp=59{{endash}}60}}