May 13: Head of the Red Army's General Staff issued directives on advancing the 25th Soviet Rifle Corps and the 19th, 21st and 22nd Armies to the line of Western Dvina and Dnepr
May 14: Narkom of Defence Semyon Timoshenko 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 1km
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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