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Grigory Kulik

1890 - 1950

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Grigory Ivanovich Kulik (Russian: Григорий Иванович Кулик; Ukrainian: Григорій Іванович Кулик, romanized: Hryhorii Ivanovych Kulyk; 9 November 1890 – 24 August 1950) was a Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union who served as chief of the Red Army's Main Artillery Directorate from 1937 until June 1941. Born into a Ukrainian peasant family near Poltava, Kulik served as an artillery officer in the Imperial Russian Army during the First World War. On the outbreak of the Russian Revolution, he joined the Bolsheviks and the Red Army. He fought alongside Joseph Stalin at the Battle of Tsaritsyn during the Russian Civil War and quickly became one of Stalin's most favoured generals. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Grigory Kulik is the 745th most popular military personnel (down from 680th in 2019), the 248th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 223rd in 2019) and the 24th most popular Ukrainian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Grigory Kulik ranks 745 out of 2,058. Before her are Albert Leo Schlageter, George Meade, Herbert Kappler, Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, Andriy Melnyk, and Roustam Raza. After her are Lei Feng, Takeo Kurita, Julian, Count of Ceuta, Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., Hans Hermann von Katte, and Max Immelmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Grigory Kulik ranks 71. Before her are Zeki Velidi Togan, Elpidio Quirino, Bechara El Khoury, Vannevar Bush, Seiichi Itō, and Andriy Melnyk. After her are Max Immelmann, Sarah Aaronsohn, Edwin Howard Armstrong, Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern, Norman Bethune, and Robert Stroud. Among people deceased in 1950, Grigory Kulik ranks 58. Before her are Karl Guthe Jansky, Charles Bennett, Melitta Bentz, Rafael Sabatini, Liane de Pougy, and Henry L. Stimson. After her are Abraham Wald, Salvatore Giuliano, Olaf Stapledon, Alfred Korzybski, Adam Rainer, and Walter Huston.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Grigory Kulik ranks 248 out of 1,365. Before her are Angelica Balabanoff (1878), Leonid Pasternak (1862), Sergei Winogradsky (1856), Andriy Melnyk (1890), Marian Jaworski (1926), and Abram Ioffe (1880). After her are Lyudmila Gurchenko (1935), Eugen Ehrlich (1862), Pavel Sudoplatov (1907), Aleksandr Medved (1937), Mark Bernes (1911), and Otto Struve (1897).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Ukraine

Among military personnels born in Ukraine, Grigory Kulik ranks 24. Before her are Pavel Batitsky (1910), Stanisław Sosabowski (1892), Ivan Bohun (1618), Alexander Marinesko (1913), Sigismund Korybut (1395), and Andriy Melnyk (1890). After her are Pavel Sudoplatov (1907), Sergey Gorshkov (1910), Valerii Zaluzhnyi (1973), Sergey Kamenev (1881), Pavel Rybalko (1894), and Stanisław Maczek (1892).

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