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Iona Yakir

1896 - 1937

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Iona Yakir is the 850th most popular military personnel (down from 794th in 2019), the 16th most popular biography from Moldova (down from 15th in 2019) and the most popular Moldovan Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Iona Yakir ranks 850 out of 2,058Before him are Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph of Austria-Este, Sergey Kamenev, Bruno Loerzer, Harold Rainsford Stark, Hasdrubal Gisco, and Lady Triệu. After him are Minamoto no Yoshitomo, Nikolai Berzarin, Leon Rupnik, Constantine Diogenes, Hermann von Eichhorn, and Osman Batur.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Iona Yakir ranks 91Before him are Wilhelm Ackermann, Pavel Alexandrov, Hinrich Lohse, Jorge Alessandri, Jimmy Doolittle, and Mir Jafar Baghirov. After him are Morarji Desai, Zygmunt Berling, Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia, Carl Zuckmayer, Faina Ranevskaya, and Fayzulla Khodzhayev. Among people deceased in 1937, Iona Yakir ranks 61Before him are Adalbert Deșu, Ahmed Izzet Pasha, Hugo Meisl, Vincenzo Lancia, Max von Gallwitz, and Chūya Nakahara. After him are Peljidiin Genden, Jenő Hubay, F. C. S. Schiller, Richard Boleslawski, Elihu Root, and Yevgeni Preobrazhensky.

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In Moldova

Among people born in Moldova, Iona Yakir ranks 16 out of 107Before him are Eugen Doga (1937), Pyotr Rumyantsev (1725), Avigdor Lieberman (1958), Kira Muratova (1934), Mikhail Larionov (1881), and Petru Lucinschi (1940). After him are Maria Cebotari (1910), Vladimir Purishkevich (1870), Alexey Shchusev (1873), Jerzy Neyman (1894), Lev Berg (1876), and Meir Dizengoff (1861).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Moldova

Among military personnels born in Moldova, Iona Yakir ranks 1After him are Grigory Kotovsky (1881).