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Andrei Grechko

1903 - 1976

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Andrei Antonovich Grechko (Russian: Андре́й Анто́нович Гре́чко; Ukrainian: Андрій Антонович Гречко; 17 October [O.S. 4 October] 1903 – 26 April 1976) was a Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union during the Cold War. He served as the Soviet minister of defence from 1967 to 1976. Born to a Ukrainian peasant family near Rostov-on-Don, Grechko served in the Red Army cavalry during the Russian Civil War. After graduating from the Frunze Military Academy, he took part in the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Andrei Grechko is the 385th most popular military personnel (down from 346th in 2019), the 307th most popular biography from Russia (down from 279th in 2019) and the 27th most popular Russian Military Personnel.

Andrei Grechko was a Soviet military commander who led the Soviet forces during the Battle of Berlin.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Andrei Grechko ranks 385 out of 2,058. Before him are Baiju, Okita Sōji, Maximilian von Spee, Omar Pasha, Henri Giraud, and Iwane Matsui. After him are Prokop the Great, Alexander Samsonov, Henry Maitland Wilson, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, Erich Priebke, and Jean-Andoche Junot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Andrei Grechko ranks 52. Before him are Tunku Abdul Rahman, Julius Fučík, Abul A'la Maududi, Eliot Ness, Giulio Natta, and Bruno Bettelheim. After him are Claudio Arrau, Kenneth Clark, Georg Elser, George Davis Snell, Ernest Walton, and Alonzo Church. Among people deceased in 1976, Andrei Grechko ranks 41. Before him are Émile Benveniste, George Whipple, Tove Ditlevsen, Benjamin Graham, João Goulart, and René Cassin. After him are Knud, Hereditary Prince of Denmark, Josef Albers, Dalton Trumbo, George Ostrogorsky, Murtala Mohammed, and Paul Lazarsfeld.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Andrei Grechko ranks 307 out of 3,761. Before him are Tamara Karsavina (1885), Aleksandr Lyapunov (1857), Chung Il-kwon (1917), Roman Abramovich (1966), Boris Nemtsov (1959), and Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia (1871). After him are Simeon of Moscow (1316), Andrey Bogolyubsky (1111), Marianne von Werefkin (1860), Pyotr Krasnov (1869), Alexander Luria (1902), and Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia (1895).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Russia

Among military personnels born in Russia, Andrei Grechko ranks 27. Before him are Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1856), Valery Gerasimov (1955), Nikolai Vatutin (1901), Dmitry Yazov (1924), Fyodor Tolbukhin (1894), and Boris Shaposhnikov (1882). After him are Gerhard Barkhorn (1919), Kirill Meretskov (1897), Leonid Govorov (1897), Pavel Nakhimov (1802), Zinovy Rozhestvensky (1848), and Sergei Skripal (1951).

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