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Aleksandr Vasilevsky

Marshal of the Soviet Union (1895-1977) · Russia · Politicians · Died at 82

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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.

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A life in dates

1977Died5 December 19771975Order of LeninAward1974Order of the People's Republic of BulgariaAward1970Order of LeninAward1968Honorary weapon with a golden image of the State Emblem of the USSRAward1965Order of LeninAward1949Order of the Red BannerAward1946Order of the People's LiberationAward1945Order of LeninAwardOrder of VictoryAward1944Croix de GuerreAwardHero of the Soviet UnionAwardOrder of VictoryAward1943Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British EmpireAward1939Order of the Red StarAward1895Born18 September 1895

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  1. I did not decide to become an officer to start a military career. I still wanted to be an agronomist and work in some remote corner of Russia after the war.

    Quoted in "The matter of my whole life" - by Marshal A.M. Vasilevsky - Moscow, Politizdat, 1978., Own words

  2. Why I should be in Romania in the name of unknown to me goal. There was a time when I led soldiers to battle, thinking I was doing my duty as a Russian patriot.

    Quoted in "The matter of my whole life" - by Marshal A.M. Vasilevsky - Moscow, Politizdat, 1978 - Page 30., Own words

  3. By seizing the formerly little-known Height 102.0 - the Mamayev Hill - the Red Army fought its way to the fascists' den - Berlin.

    Quoted in "The Voice of Russia," Copyright 2002., Own words

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Awards

Order of Karl Marx1975
Order "For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR", 3rd class1975
Order of Lenin1975
Order of the People's Republic of Bulgaria1974
Commander with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta1973
Order of Sukhbaatar1971
Order of Lenin1970
Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"1970
Order of the October Revolution1968
Honorary weapon with a golden image of the State Emblem of the USSR1968
Commander of the Order of Polonia Restituta1968
Order of Sukhbaatar1966
Order of Lenin1965
Order of Lenin1955
Order of the White Lion1955
Order of the Red Banner1949
Order of the National Flag1948
Order of the Cross of Grunwald, 1st class1946
Order of the Partisan Star1946
Order of the People's Liberation1946
Virtuti Militari1946
Order of Lenin1945
Order of the White Lion1945
Order of the Red Banner1945
Order of Victory1945
Hero of the Soviet Union1945
Gold Star medal1945
Order of Lenin1944
Order of the Red Banner1944
Order of Victory1944
Hero of the Soviet Union1944
Gold Star medal1944
Chief Commander of the Legion of Merit1944
Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour1944
Croix de Guerre1944
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire1943
Order of Suvorov, 1st class1943
Czechoslovak War Cross 1939-19451943
Order of Lenin1942
Order of the Red Star1939

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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

Country
Russia
Category
Politicians
Type
Politician
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1895 to 1977 · aged 82

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