gave an order on pre-term graduation of cadets, commissioning them to the troops
May 16: Diplomatic relations with Iraq were established
June 12: Timoshenko ordered the military councils of boundary districts to start the advancing of troops from rear closer to the state frontier
June 13: Joseph Stalin suspended Timoshenko's request to bring the frontier troops into alertness
June 14:
TASS
issued a report, labelling groundless the statements about the forthcoming war with Germany, spread by foreign and particularly British press
June 21: Georgy Zhukov imparted via HF of waiting for important document to the staff heads of the military districts
June 22: The Communist Party Central Committee issues the decree "On the Organization of Struggle in the Rear of German troops"; diplomatic relations with Germany ceased, relations with Italy, Romania and Denmark were interrupted
Commander-in-Chief of the Black Sea Fleet Filipp Oktyabrsky reported to Zhukov on the approach of a large number of unknown aircraft at 03:07
Head of Staff of the Western Military District General Vladimir Klimovskikh reported on German air raids on Byelorussian towns at 03:30
Western and Baltic Military Districts reported on the onset of German ground hostilities at 04:10
Timoshenko's directive N2 was delivered to military districts at 07:15
sixteen German aircraft bombed Grodno at 07:15 from the altitude of 1 km
Government's public radio report on the declaration of war at 12:00
June 23: High Command Headquarters (later - Headquarters of Supreme Commander-in-Chief) was formed; mobilization plan on ammunition production was introduced; Soviets leave Grodno
June 30: State Defence Committee was formed; diplomatic relations with France were interrupted
July 3: Stalin gave a broadcast talk
July 4: directive on economical policy during the forced evacuation of production facilities was issued; State Defence Committee adopted decree "On voluntary mobilization of Moscow and the Moscow Oblast working-people to the divisions of people's militia"
September 8: Encirclement of Leningrad was completed; the city's Badayev Depots and "The Red Star" creamery were ruined by German aviation (3,000 tons of flour and 2,500 tons of sugar were marred)
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