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People of the Revolution and the USSR
Activity(set)
Affiliation
Position
Citizenship(set)
Background
Era
People of the Soviet Union
People of the wider world
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Pyotr Ionovich Baranov Пётр Ионович Баранов
Principal architect of the Soviet Air Force and aviation industry
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1892–1933
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Mikhail Petrovich Kirponos Михаил Петрович Кирпонос
Southwestern Front commander who fell in the Kiev encirclement
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1892–1941
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Andrei Vasilyevich Khrulev Андрей Васильевич Хрулёв
The invisible commander who moved the war, the only supply general Stalin toasted as architect of victory
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1892–1962
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Andrei Ivanovich Yeryomenko Андрей Иванович Ерёменко
The cavalryman who closed Stalingrad's southern pincer
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1892–1970
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Ivan Vladimirovich Tyulenev Иван Владимирович Тюленев
The cavalry general who bolted the Caucasus gate, witness to three wars
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1892–1978
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Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky Михаил Николаевич Тухачевский
“The Red Napoleon,” killed by the army he built
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1893–1937
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Sergei Georgiyevich Lazo Сергей Георгиевич Лазо
Moldovan nobleman turned Bolshevik revolutionary who established Soviet power in the Far East
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1894–1920
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Vladimir Kiriakovich Triandafillov Владимир Кириакович Триандафиллов
“Father of Soviet operational art”: architect of deep operations doctrine
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1894–1931
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Yan Borisovich Gamarnik Ян Борисович Гамарник
The Red Army's political chief who backed the purges, then shot himself as they closed in
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1894–1937
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Pavel Semyonovich Rybalko Павел Семёнович Рыбалко
Twice Hero who drove the 3rd Guards Tank Army from Stalingrad to Prague
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1894–1948
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Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbukhin Фёдор Иванович Толбухин
The marshal who liberated the Balkans and prized soldiers' lives above glory
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1894–1949
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Maksim Alexeyevich Purkayev Максим Алексеевич Пуркаев
Mordvin carpenter's son who rose to Army General and led the Manchurian offensive
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1894–1953
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Semyon Ilyich Bogdanov Семён Ильич Богданов
The tank army commander who first entered Berlin, sidelined after Stalin's death
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1894–1960
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Alexander Ivanovich Todorsky Александр Иванович Тодорский
The Vesyegonsk chronicler of Soviet power whose book Lenin called 'remarkable'
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1894–1965
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Ivan Stepanovich Isakov Иван Степанович Исаков
The Soviet Navy's scholar-admiral who lost a leg at Tuapse and still fought two wars to the end
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1894–1967
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Nikolai Alexandrovich Shchors Николай Александрович Щорс
Legendary Red Army division commander whom Stalin called the 'Ukrainian Chapayev'
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1895–1919
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Robert Petrovich Eideman Роберт Петрович Эйдеман
Latvian-born Civil War hero turned defendant in the Tukhachevsky trial
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1895–1937
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Semyon Petrovich Uritsky Семён Петрович Урицкий
GRU chief who expanded Soviet military intelligence, then fell to the Great Purge
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1895–1938
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Viktor Ivanovich Maltsev Виктор Иванович Мальцев
Soviet Air Force colonel turned ROA Air Force commander, builder of the Vlasov movement's air arm
Military command
1895–1946
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Nikolai Pavlovich Pukhov Николай Павлович Пухов
The seminary-trained instructor who drove the 13th Army into the heart of Europe
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1895–1958
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Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko Семён Константинович Тимошенко
Marshal of the Soviet Union, People's Commissar for Defence 1940-1941
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1895–1970
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Ivan Stepanovich Yumashev Иван Степанович Юмашев
Pacific Fleet commander of Operation August Storm, the admiral Stalin dismissed as 'not a minister'
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1895–1972
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Mikhail Stepanovich Shumilov Михаил Степанович Шумилов
Commander of the 64th Army: Stalingrad's southern shield for six months
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1895–1975
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Aleksandr Mikhailovich Vasilevsky Александр Михайлович Василевский
The seminarian-turned-staff-officer who designed Uranus
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1895–1977
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Ieronim Petrovich Uborevich Иероним Петрович Уборевич
A prodigy who commanded an army at twenty-three, architect of the Red Army's mechanization
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1896–1937
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Iona Emmanuilovich Yakir Иона Эммануилович Якир
Civil War hero who turned the Kiev Military District into a laboratory for reform
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1896–1937
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Andrei Ivanovich Zelentsov Андрей Иванович Зеленцов
A division commander caught between encirclement and higher command
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1896–1941
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Fyodor Ivanovich Trukhin Фёдор Иванович Трухин
A staff general who turned from Soviet command to an anti-Soviet armed organisation
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1896–1946
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Yakov Nikolayevich Fedorenko Яков Николаевич Федоренко
First Marshal of Armored Troops who led the Red Army's tank forces through the entire war
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1896–1947
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Ivan Yefimovich Petrov Иван Ефимович Петров
The army general who held Odessa and Sevastopol, and returned to command every time Stalin sacked him
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1896–1958
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Aleksei Innokentievich Antonov Алексей Иннокентьевич Антонов
The architect of every major Soviet operation from 1943 onward: the only Order of Victory holder who was not a marshal
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1896–1962
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Konstantin Ksaveryevich (birth) / Konstantinovich (later) Rokossovsky Константин Константинович Рокоссовский
Marshal of two nations, the USSR and Poland, who commanded the 1945 Victory Parade
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1896–1968
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Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov Георгий Константинович Жуков
Stalin's Marshal of Victory, twice demoted for his own fame
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1896–1974
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Mikhail Semyonovich Khozin Михаил Семёнович Хозин
Soviet Colonel General who led Leningrad through the first blockade winter, then lost the 2nd Shock Army and his command
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1896–1979
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Yakov Ivanovich Tryapitsyn Яков Иванович Тряпицын
Far Eastern partisan commander who took Nikolayevsk-on-Amur in 1920, then executed its prisoners and burned the town
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1897–1920
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Vitaly Markovich Primakov Виталий Маркович Примаков
Commander of the Red Cossacks and the Soviet 'Red Lawrence' who led the covert 1929 intervention in Afghanistan
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1897–1937
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Ivan Semyonovich Kutyakov Иван Семёнович Кутяков
Chapayev's successor and Civil War hero who outlived his usefulness to Stalin
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1897–1938
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Yakov Ivanovich Alksnis Яков Иванович Алкснис
Built the world's largest bomber force, then died the death he had sentenced others to
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1897–1938
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Ivan Fyodorovich Fedko Иван Фёдорович Федько
Four-time Red Banner hero of the Civil War, rose to First Deputy Defence Commissar: purged by the machine he served
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1897–1939
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Dmitry Grigoryevich Pavlov Дмитрий Григорьевич Павлов
The general who built Soviet tank forces and became their first scapegoat
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1897–1941
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Mikhail Gr. Grigoryevich Yefremov Михаил Григорьевич Ефремов
Commander of the 33rd Army at Moscow, encircled at Vyazma and shot himself when Stalin denied retreat
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1897–1942
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Vasily Timofeyevich Volsky Василий Тимофеевич Вольский
Soviet tank army commander who wrote to Stalin warning Operation Uranus would fail
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1897–1946
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Leonid Aleksandrovich Govorov Леонид Александрович Говоров
From Kolchak's White Army to Marshal of the USSR who broke the 900-day siege of Leningrad
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1897–1955
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Georgy Fedorovich Zakharov Георгий Фёдорович Захаров
Peasant-born Army General who led the 2nd Belorussian Front and was demoted after Bagration
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1897–1957
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Vladimir Viktorovich Kryukov Владимир Викторович Крюков
Hero of the Guards cavalry corps, brought down by the Trophy Case, rehabilitated in the Thaw
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1897–1959
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Miron Semyonovich Vovsi Мирон Семёнович Вовси
Red Army chief internist who built Soviet wartime field therapy, and the lead defendant in the Doctors' Plot
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1897–1960
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Kirill Afanasyevich Meretskov Кирилл Афанасьевич Мерецков
The marshal who survived NKVD torture to break the Leningrad blockade
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1897–1968
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Vasily Danilovich Sokolovsky Василий Данилович Соколовский
A peasant's son from the Grodno lands who framed Soviet nuclear-age strategy
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1897–1968
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Mikhail Alekseevich Shalin Михаил Алексеевич Шалин
The meticulous staff officer who led Soviet military intelligence through the transition from Stalin to Khrushchev
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1897–1970
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Ivan Stepanovich Konev Иван Степанович Конев
The marshal who made encirclement an art, and became a political soldier in peacetime
Military command · Soviet Union state institutions
1897–1973