The Most Famous
MILITARY PERSONNELS from Moldova
This page contains a list of the greatest Moldovan Military Personnels. The pantheon dataset contains 2,058 Military Personnels, 2 of which were born in Moldova. This makes Moldova the birth place of the 72nd most number of Military Personnels behind Ethiopia, and Haiti.
Top 3
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Moldovan Military Personnels of all time. This list of famous Moldovan Military Personnels is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Iona Yakir (1896 - 1937)
With an HPI of 63.31, Iona Yakir is the most famous Moldovan Military Personnel. His biography has been translated into 23 different languages on wikipedia.
Iona Emmanuilovich Yakir (Russian: Ио́на Эммануи́лович Яки́р; 3 August 1896 – 12 June 1937) was a Red Army commander and one of the world's major military reformers between World War I and World War II. He was an early and major military victim of the Great Purge, alongside Mikhail Tukhachevsky.
2. Grigory Kotovsky (1881 - 1925)
With an HPI of 60.88, Grigory Kotovsky is the 2nd most famous Moldovan Military Personnel. His biography has been translated into 22 different languages.
Grigory Ivanovich Kotovsky (Russian: Григо́рий Ива́нович Кото́вский, Romanian: Grigore Kotovski; June 24 [O.S. June 12] 1881 – August 6, 1925) was a Soviet military officer and political activist, and participant in the Russian Civil War. He made a career from being a gangster and bank robber to eventually becoming a Red Army commander and member of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union.
3. Viktor Sokolov (b. 1962)
With an HPI of 51.90, Viktor Sokolov is the 3rd most famous Moldovan Military Personnel. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Viktor Nikolayevich Sokolov (Russian: Виктор Николаевич Соколов; born 4 April 1962) is an officer of the Russian Navy and former commander of the Black Sea Fleet. He holds the rank of admiral. In 2016, as deputy commander, Sokolov was in charge of a detachment of the Northern Fleet engaged in operations off the coast of Syria during the Russian intervention there. After several months of operations, Sokolov was thanked for his services by the Chief of the General Staff Army General Valery Gerasimov, and returned with the taskforce to the fleet's homebases in Northern Russia. In January 2020 he left his post as deputy commander of the Northern Fleet to take up his new role as head of the N. G. Kuznetsov Naval Academy. In August 2022 during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, he was appointed to command the Black Sea Fleet. In 2024, Vice Admiral Sergey Pinchuk replaced him as commander of the Black Sea Fleet. Sokolov has not been seen since Ukraine claimed his death on 22 September 2023 when the Black Sea Fleet headquarters in Sevastopol, Crimea, was hit by Storm Shadow cruise missiles fired by Ukraine in Operation Crab Trap. The Russian government denied that he had been killed and published a video purporting to show him still alive. In 2024, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Sokolov, citing his alleged war crimes during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
People
Pantheon has 3 people classified as Moldovan military personnels born between 1881 and 1962. Of these 3, 1 (33.33%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Moldovan military personnels include Viktor Sokolov. The most famous deceased Moldovan military personnels include Iona Yakir, and Grigory Kotovsky. As of April 2024, 1 new Moldovan military personnels have been added to Pantheon including Viktor Sokolov.
