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Alexander Kazankin

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Soviet military personnel (1900-1955)

Lived 1900 to 1955 · aged 54
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Alexander Fyodorovich Kazankin was a Red Army Lieutenant general who commanded the Soviet airborne. He fought in the Russian Civil War and graduated from the Frunze Military Academy in 1934. Kazankin led the 4th Airborne Corps during the Vyazma airborne operation.

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Order of the Red Banner
Order of Lenin
Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army"
Order of Suvorov, 2nd class
Order of Kutuzov, 1st class
Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky, 1st class
Medal "For the Defence of Moscow"
Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw"
Medal "For the Capture of Berlin"
Order of Kutuzov
Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky
Medal "To a Partisan of the Patriotic War"
Jubilee Medal "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy"
Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"

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Alexander Fyodorovich Kazankin was a Red Army Lieutenant general who commanded the Soviet airborne. He fought in the Russian Civil War and graduated from the Frunze Military Academy in 1934. Kazankin led the 4th Airborne Corps during the Vyazma airborne operation. He later commanded the 1st Guards Airborne Division, 16th Guards Airborne Division, 12th Guards Rifle Corps and 39th Guards Rifle Corps. Kazankin became the Soviet airborne commander in October 1947, but was demoted to deputy commander in December 1948. After briefly becoming airborne forces commander again between January and March 1950, Kazankin successively became inspector general of the airborne forces and then deputy airborne forces inspector general before his death on 20 March 1955.

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Lived 1900 to 1955 · aged 54
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