Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov (Russian: Георгий Константинович Жуков, pronounced [ɡʲɪˈorɡʲɪj kənstɐnʲˈtʲinəvʲɪtɕ ˈʐukəf] ; 1 December 1896 – 18 June 1974)...
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pivoted to devote Zhdanovshchina to purification of the arts and culture. Georgy Zhukov was the most prominent Soviet military commander during World War II...
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Georgy Gennadyevich Zhukov (Russian: Георгий Геннадьевич Жуков; born 19 November 1994) is a Kazakh professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for...
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Zhukov (Russian: Орден Жукова) is a military decoration of the Russian Federation. The order is named in honour of Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy...
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Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov, the most decorated general in the history of the Soviet Union. The Medal of Zhukov was established on May 9,...
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The name Zhukov often refers to Georgy Zhukov (1896–1974), a Soviet military leader. It may also refer to: Zhukov (surname) Zhukov (inhabited locality)...
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hockey player Georgy Tovstonogov (1915–1989), Soviet theatre director Georgy Vitsin (1918–2001), Soviet and Russian actor Georgy Zhukov (1896–1974), Russian...
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The Death of Stalin (category Cultural depictions of Georgy Zhukov)
purges. Irate over the supplanting of the military by the NKVD, Marshal Georgy Zhukov agrees to support Khrushchev in a coup against Beria, provided it occurs...
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of Journalists and wrote many publications about her father, Marshal Georgy Zhukov. Margarita Georgievna Zhukova was born in Minsk on 6 June 1929. Her...
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around a number of key bridgeheads, with two fronts commanded by Marshal Georgy Zhukov and Marshal Ivan Konev. Against them, the German Army Group A, led by...
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April 1945, Hitler's birthday, the 1st Belorussian Front led by Marshal Georgy Zhukov, advancing from the east and north, started shelling Berlin's city centre...
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556 soldiers of the Communist Polish 1st Army), commanded by Marshal Georgy Zhukov, attacked the position known as the "Gates of Berlin". They were opposed...
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operation of the Soviet Western Front and Kalinin Front co-ordinated by Georgy Zhukov. The offensive was one in a series of particularly bloody engagements...
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Race to Berlin (section Zhukov's 1st Belorussian Front)
The Race to Berlin was a competition between Soviet Marshals Georgy Zhukov and Ivan Konev to be the first to enter Berlin during the final months of World...
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highly praised by his contemporary Marshal Georgy Zhukov. During a discussion with Stalin in 1941, Zhukov praised Timoshenko's conducts at Smolensk sector...
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Khrushchev, with the support of other members of the leadership and Marshal Georgy Zhukov, removed Beria from power. He was arrested, tried for treason and other...
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awarded the Distinguished Book Award to his Stalin's General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov (2012), a work which Jonathan Yardley for The Washington Post described...
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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 Berlin...
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Soviet Union was established. It included: Semyon Timoshenko (Chairman), Georgy Zhukov, Joseph Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Kliment Voroshilov, Semyon Budyonny...
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1BF then stormed Berlin in the climactic Battle of Berlin. Marshal Georgy Zhukov was appointed commander of the 1BF, in November 1944, for its last two...
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commander-in-chief of the Soviet Ground Forces. In 1957, he replaced the ousted Georgy Zhukov as Minister of Defence, a position he served until his death. Malinovsky...
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General Staff Aleksandr Vasilevsky, and Western Main Direction commander Georgy Zhukov. Ultimately, Stalin instructed that the summer campaign be based on...
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needed] The only individuals to receive the title four times were Marshal Georgy Zhukov and Leonid Brezhnev. The original statute of the Hero of the Soviet...
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and Georgy Zhukov: when Rokossovsky was the commander of the 7th Samara Cavalry Division, Timoshenko served as his superior Corps commander and Zhukov was...
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time units of the 1st Belorussian Front, under the command of Marshal Georgy Zhukov, attacked the German rearguard from the northeast. After heavy fighting...
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defeat, Konev's 1st Ukrainian Front was pitted against the armies of Georgy Zhukov in the Race to Berlin. Konev was the first Allied commander to enter...
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formal signing" of a suitably amended text presided over by Marshal Georgy Zhukov in Berlin (capital of Nazi Germany) on 8 May. Furthermore, he issued...
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Union - Kliment Voroshilov (September 1941); General of the Army - Georgy Zhukov (September–October 1941); Major General - Ivan Fedyuninski (October...
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following the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, replacing Georgy Zhukov, but was again forced to resign a year later due to declining health...
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Union Georgy Zhukov. Like other clear colas, it had the same flavor as the original, virtually unchanged by the absence of caramel coloring. Zhukov was...
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