Andrey Yeryomenko

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Marshal of the Soviet Union (1892-1970)

PoliticiansLived 1892 to 1970 · aged 78

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Fame57.2

Momentum3.8

Languages30

In century#10,309

Also inDeutsch

Photos 5

Andrey Yeryomenko as regimental commander ca.1929

General Yeryomenko (right) as the commander of the Stalingrad Front, with Nikita Khrushchev (left), Chief Commissar of the Stalingrad Front, December 1942

Yeryomenko and Ivan Konev in liberated Prague on 6 June 1945

Yeryomenko in uniform c. 1945-1949

Awards 29

1970Hero of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic

Order of Lenin

Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Order of the Red Banner

Commander of the Legion of Merit

Hero of the Soviet Union

Order of the October Revolution

Order of Klement Gottwald

Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army"

Order of Suvorov, 1st class

Order of Kutuzov, 1st class

Medal "For the Defence of Moscow"

Medal "For the Defence of Stalingrad"

Medal "For the Development of Virgin Lands"

Chief Commander of the Legion of Merit

Legionnaire of Legion of Merit

Medal "For Bravery Before the Enemy"

Medal "For Oder, Nysa and the Baltic"

Medal "For the strengthening of friendship in arms"

Order of the Cross of Grunwald, 2nd class

Medal "In Commemoration of the Battle of Dukla Pass"

Knight's Cross of the Virtuti Militari

Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"

Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"

Jubilee Medal Medal "In Commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of Leningrad"

Jubilee Medal "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy"

Jubilee Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

In their orbit 2

MotherMaria Yeryomenko

SiblingSemyon Yeryomenko

Connected to Andrey 6

Alexey LeonovAlso won Medal "For the strengthening of friendship in arms"

Gustáv HusákAlso won Hero of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic

Tadeusz KościuszkoAlso won Knight's Cross of the Virtuti Militari

Vasily DzhugashviliAlso won Medal "For Oder, Nysa and the Baltic"

Marie Pierre KœnigAlso won Commander of the Legion of Merit

Todor ZhivkovAlso won Order of Klement Gottwald

About this person

Andrey Ivanovich Yeryomenko was a Soviet general during World War II and Marshal of the Soviet Union. During the war, Yeryomenko commanded the Southeastern Front during the Battle of Stalingrad in summer 1942 and planned the successful defense of the city. He later commanded the armies responsible for the liberation of Western Hungary and Eastern Czechoslovakia in 1945.