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Aleksandr Dvornikov

1961 - Today

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Aleksandr Vladimirovich Dvornikov (Russian: Александр Владимирович Дворников; born 22 August 1961) is a former Russian army general who commanded the Russian military intervention in Syria and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. After joining the Soviet Army in 1978, Dvornikov rose through the ranks of the Soviet and then Russian army over a period of thirty years. In 2015, he became commander of the Russian Armed Forces in Syria during the Russian military intervention there. At that time he cemented a reputation for the harsh conduct of his military campaigns as those in Chechnya before. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Aleksandr Dvornikov is the 1,029th most popular military personnel (up from 1,105th in 2019), the 826th most popular biography from Russia (up from 930th in 2019) and the 73rd most popular Russian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Aleksandr Dvornikov ranks 1,029 out of 2,058. Before him are Hans Hartwig von Beseler, Ivan Isakov, Karl Ernst, Otto Ruge, Georges Guynemer, and Richard Dannatt. After him are Fukushima Masanori, Leontius, Otto von Lossow, James Wolfe, Eugen Ritter von Schobert, and Helmut Lent.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Aleksandr Dvornikov ranks 102. Before him are Joan Chen, Élisabeth Borne, José Luis Mendilibar, Steven Weber, Joanne Whalley, and Jared Harris. After him are Danny Blind, Kalpana Chawla, Ghislaine Maxwell, Sergei Aleinikov, Safra Catz, and Frans Timmermans.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Aleksandr Dvornikov ranks 826 out of 3,761. Before him are Georgy Sviridov (1915), Eero Järnefelt (1863), Andrey II of Vladimir (1222), Vasily Aksyonov (1932), Natalia Makarova (1940), and Alexander Fadeyev (1901). After him are Samuil Marshak (1887), Inna Churikova (1943), Nikolai Korotkov (1874), Anatoli Papanov (1922), Malyuta Skuratov (1600), and Pavel Tretyakov (1832).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Russia

Among military personnels born in Russia, Aleksandr Dvornikov ranks 73. Before him are Anatoly Stessel (1848), Maria Bochkareva (1889), Yakov Pavlov (1917), Walter Weiß (1890), Vasili Mitrokhin (1922), and Joseph Trumpeldor (1880). After him are Pavel Rotmistrov (1901), Franz Moritz von Lacy (1725), Vasily Petrov (1917), Semyon Kurkotkin (1917), Mikhail Katukov (1900), and Andrei Shkuro (1887).

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