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description: "The Soviet general who climbed from Imperial Army captain to Marshal, survived Stalin's purges, and spent World War II coordinating entire fronts from the General Staff — then led the lightning invasion of Manchuria that ended the Pacific war."
tagline: "Marshal of the Soviet Union (1895-1977)"
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birthDate: "1895-09-18"
deathDate: "1977-12-05"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Aleksandr Vasilevsky began as an officer in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I, reaching captain by 1917 before the revolution pulled him into the Red Army and the Polish-Soviet War. He rose fast through the interwar ranks, appointed to the Directorate of Military Training in 1931 and then deputy chief of operations in 1939 after Stalin's purges had thinned the officer corps. When Germany invaded in June 1941, his mentor Boris Shaposhnikov recommended him for promotion; by June 1942 Vasilevsky had succeeded Shaposhnikov as chief of the General Staff and became deputy defense minister that October. In that role he coordinated fronts and planned offensives with Georgy Zhukov — Kursk in 1943, Operation Bagration in 1944 — and earned his marshal's star in February 1943 after Stalingrad. He took field command of the 3rd Belorussian Front in February 1945, then pivoted east: appointed commander-in-chief of Soviet forces in the Far East in July, he executed the invasion of Manchuria in August 1945. After the war he held the General Staff again from 1946 to 1948 and served as Defense Minister from 1949 until after Stalin's death, finally removed in 1957 under 