sentences:  After the winter fighting ended, this sector, north of Bryansk, remained relatively inactive for the balance of the year.On March 9, General Kiryukin handed over his command to Major Ivan Yakovlevich Kravchenko; Kiryukhin would go on to command the 24th Rifle Corps and become a Hero of the Soviet Union.Major Kravchenko had been named a Hero of the Soviet Union in 1940 for his actions during the Winter War with Finland.