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Mikhail Kirponos

1892 - 1941

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Mikhail Petrovich Kirponos (Russian: Михаи́л Петро́вич Кирпоно́с, Ukrainian: Михайло Петрович Кирпонос, Mykhailo Petrovych Kyrponos; 12 January 1892 – 20 September 1941) was a Soviet general of the Red Army during World War II. Being accorded the highest military decoration, the Hero of the Soviet Union title, for the skill and courage in commanding a division in the 1939-1940 Finnish campaign, Kirponos is remembered for his leading role in the failed defense of Ukraine during the Battle of Brody, the Battle of Uman, and Kiev in the 1941 German invasion of the Soviet Union. He was killed during mortar shelling while trying to break out of the Kiev encirclement on 20 September 1941. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mikhail Kirponos is the 462nd most popular military personnel (down from 434th in 2019), the 149th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 134th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Ukrainian Military Personnel.

Mikhail Kirponos was a Soviet field marshal who served in the Red Army during World War II. He was captured by the Germans during the Battle of Kiev and spent the rest of the war in captivity.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Mikhail Kirponos ranks 462 out of 2,058. Before him are Osman Nuri Pasha, Alexander von Falkenhausen, Cao Ren, Nogi Maresuke, Zhang He, and Otto von Below. After him are Elisabeth Volkenrath, Johannes Frießner, Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, Levin August von Bennigsen, Jan Kubiš, and Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Mikhail Kirponos ranks 60. Before him are E. H. Carr, Oswald Pohl, Hjalmar Siilasvuo, Edith Södergran, Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria, and Erich Auerbach. After him are Johannes Frießner, Juan Negrín, Tamon Yamaguchi, Eiji Yoshikawa, Germaine Tailleferre, and Harry Stack Sullivan. Among people deceased in 1941, Mikhail Kirponos ranks 42. Before him are Sherwood Anderson, Günther Lütjens, Louis Chevrolet, Günther Prien, Annie Jump Cannon, and Christian Rakovsky. After him are Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, Sisowath Monivong, Tullio Levi-Civita, Benjamin Lee Whorf, Hans Driesch, and Paul-Jacques Curie.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Mikhail Kirponos ranks 149 out of 1,365. Before him are Semion Mogilevich (1946), Jan Łukasiewicz (1878), Euphrosyne of Kiev (1130), Tatyana Afanasyeva (1876), Alfred Redl (1864), and Dimitri Tiomkin (1894). After him are Svetlana Gerasimenko (1945), Alexander Georg von Bunge (1803), Stanisław Żółkiewski (1547), Juliusz Słowacki (1809), Vsevolod I of Kiev (1030), and Serge Lifar (1904).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Ukraine

Among military personnels born in Ukraine, Mikhail Kirponos ranks 13. Before him are Roman Shukhevych (1907), Ivan Paskevich (1782), Alexander Samsonov (1859), Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski (1895), Vladimir Gelfand (1923), and Alfred Redl (1864). After him are Yevhen Konovalets (1891), Kirill Moskalenko (1902), Jarosław Dąbrowski (1836), Ivan Chernyakhovsky (1906), Pavel Batitsky (1910), and Stanisław Sosabowski (1892).

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