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During World War II, Zhukov served as deputy commander-in-chief of the armed forces under leader Joseph Stalin, and oversaw some of the Red Army's most decisive victories. Born to a poor peasant family near Moscow, Zhukov was conscripted into the Imperial Russian Army and fought in World War I.
From 2010 to 2018 Zhukov was the president of the Russian Olympic Committee and became an IOC member at the 125th IOC Session in Buenos Aires in September 2013. [10] He was also president of the Russian Chess Federation from 2003 [11] to 2009. [12] [13] He was sanctioned by the UK government on 11 March 2022 in relation to Russo-Ukrainian War. [14]
He dealt with Soviet Marshal Zhukov, his Russian counterpart, and they became good friends. [ 100 ] In December 1944, the Germans launched a surprise counteroffensive, the Battle of the Bulge , which the Allies successfully repelled in early 1945 after Eisenhower repositioned his armies and improved weather allowed the Army Air Force to engage ...
Vasily Danilovich Sokolovsky (Russian: Васи́лий Дани́лович Соколо́вский; July 21, 1897 – May 10, 1968) was a Soviet general, military theorist, Marshal of the Soviet Union, and a commander of Red Army forces during World War II. As Georgy Zhukov's chief of staff, Sokolovsky helped plan and execute the Battle of ...
Zhukov told Stalin that if he thought the Chief of the General Staff was talking "nonsense", he should be dismissed and sent to the front line. [37] Stalin agreed to this request and appointed Marshal Boris Shaposhnikov to replace Zhukov as the chief of the Red Army General Staff, and for Zhukov to command the Soviet reserve front.
On 30 August 2020, Zhukov was beaten up and taken to a hospital. Zhukov and his attorney linked the assault with his political activity. [13] Since then, Yegor Zhukov has not appeared in public, his social networks are not updated. At the end of 2024 it became known that Egor Zhukov emigrated to the USA and is studying at Syracuse University.
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A museum to Zhukov's life is located in the school. [2] In 2015 the Russian Military History Society placed a memorial plaque to Zhukov on the school, in a ceremony attended by Ivan Zhukov. [4] A portrait of Zhukov is painted on the school's facade. [4] Ivan Zhukov died in Vladimir on 10 April 2021 at the age of 86. [1] [2] [3]