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Pages in category "Soviet military personnel of World War II" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,093 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. (previous page) -
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Leonid Govorov, World War II Soviet marshal, led Operation Spark (1943) which broke the blockade of Leningrad; Andrei Grechko, World War II Soviet marshal, Soviet Defence Minister under Brezhnev; Ivan Gudovich, field marshal, conquered Khadjibey and Anapa in the Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792), conquered Dagestan in the Russo-Turkish War (1806 ...
Given names form a distinct area of the Russian language with some unique features. The evolution of Russian given names dates back to the pre-Christian era, though the list of common names changed drastically after the adoption of Christianity. In medieval Russia two types of names were in use: canonical names given at baptism (calendar or ...
Vilen "Willi" Tokarev was "octobered" with the name Vilen after V.I. Lenin [1] [2]. Given names of Soviet origin appeared in the early history of the Soviet Union, [3] coinciding with the period of intensive word formation, both being part of the so-called "revolutionary transformation of the society" with the corresponding fashion of neologisms and acronyms, [4] which Richard Stites ...
• Russian Civil War (1917–23) • War communism (1918–21) • New Economic Policy (1921–28) After the Russian Revolution, Lenin became leader of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) from 1917 and leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) from 1922 until his death. [33] Joseph Stalin (1878–1953) [13]
Ivan Stepanovich Isakov, Fleet admiral of the Soviet Union (one of only three), served during World War II, Chief of the Main Navy Staff, oceanographer; Vladimir Ivanovich Istomin, Rear admiral, fought in the Battle of Navarino, hero of the siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855) during the Crimean War, died in action