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Dmitry Pavlov

1897 - 1941

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Dmitry Grigoryevich Pavlov (Russian: Дми́трий Григо́рьевич Па́влов; 4 November [O.S. 23 October] 1897 – 22 July 1941) was a Soviet general who commanded the key Soviet Western Front during the initial stage of the German invasion of the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa) in June 1941. After his forces were heavily defeated within the first few days of the campaign, he was relieved of his command, arrested, charged with military incompetence, and executed. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Dmitry Pavlov is the 531st most popular military personnel (down from 497th in 2019), the 438th most popular biography from Russia (down from 434th in 2019) and the 38th most popular Russian Military Personnel.

Dmitry Pavlov is most famous for his experiment with dogs. Pavlov's dogs were trained to associate the ringing of a bell with food. When the bell rang, the dogs would salivate. Pavlov noticed that the dogs would also salivate when they saw the person who fed them, even if they weren't ringing a bell.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Dmitry Pavlov ranks 531 out of 2,058. Before him are Otto Kumm, Reginald Dyer, Muhammad bin Bakhtiyar Khalji, Franz Böhme, Fyodor Ushakov, and Viktor Lutze. After him are John Franklin, Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Adolf Heusinger, Lautaro, Oghul Qaimish, and Mamai.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Dmitry Pavlov ranks 66. Before him are I. I. Chundrigar, Herbert Gille, Benjamin Lee Whorf, Theodor Busse, Ngô Đình Thục, and Yeghishe Charents. After him are Adolf Heusinger, Sepp Herberger, Yuri Kondratyuk, Hans Baur, Marcel Petiot, and Karl Löwith. Among people deceased in 1941, Dmitry Pavlov ranks 49. Before him are Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, Sisowath Monivong, Tullio Levi-Civita, Benjamin Lee Whorf, Hans Driesch, and Paul-Jacques Curie. After him are Franz Gürtner, Gottfried Feder, Maria Spiridonova, Frederick Griffith, Rudolf Hilferding, and Ernst Lindemann.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Dmitry Pavlov ranks 438 out of 3,761. Before him are Nikolay Pirogov (1810), Ivan Ilyin (1883), Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899), Valentin Serov (1865), Fyodor Ushakov (1745), and Yakov Yurovsky (1878). After him are Helena of Moscow (1476), Andrei Platonov (1899), Nikolai Kardashev (1932), Grigory Sokolov (1950), Mikhail Gurevich (1892), and Leonid Rogozov (1934).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Russia

Among military personnels born in Russia, Dmitry Pavlov ranks 38. Before him are Zinovy Rozhestvensky (1848), Sergei Skripal (1951), Viktor Kulikov (1921), Alexander Yegorov (1883), Dmitry Pozharsky (1577), and Fyodor Ushakov (1745). After him are Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov (1737), Roza Shanina (1924), Mikhail Alekseyev (1857), Filipp Golikov (1900), Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov (1787), and Alexander Pokryshkin (1913).

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