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Mikhail Tukhachevsky

1893 - 1937

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Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky (Russian: Михаил Николаевич Тухачевский, romanized: Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevskiy, IPA: [tʊxɐˈtɕefskʲɪj]; 16 February [O.S. 4 February] 1893 – 12 June 1937), nicknamed the Red Napoleon, was a Soviet general who was prominent between 1918 and 1937 as a military officer and theoretician. He was later executed during the Moscow trials of 1936–1938. He served as an officer in World War I of 1914–1917 and in the Russian Civil War of 1917–1923, leading the defense of the Moscow district (1918), commanding forces on the Eastern Front (1918), commanding the Fifth Army in the recapture of Siberia from Alexander Kolchak, and heading Cossack forces against Anton Denikin (1920). From 1920 to 1921 he commanded the Soviet Western Front in the Polish–Soviet War. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia. Mikhail Tukhachevsky is the 111th most popular military personnel (down from 94th in 2024), the 113th most popular biography from Russia (down from 102nd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Russian Military Personnel.

Mikhail Tukhachevsky is most famous for being the leader of the Red Army during the Russian Civil War. He was arrested in 1937 and executed in 1938.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Mikhail Tukhachevsky ranks 111 out of 2,058. Before him are Mardonius, Võ Nguyên Giáp, Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Walther von Reichenau, Yonatan Netanyahu, and Heinrich Müller. After him are Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, Claude Auchinleck, Hephaestion, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Konstantin Rokossovsky, and Saigō Takamori.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Mikhail Tukhachevsky ranks 11. Before him are Joachim von Ribbentrop, Alfred Rosenberg, Walter Ulbricht, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Leslie Howard, and Allen Dulles. After him are Alexander of Greece, Carol II of Romania, Soong Ching-ling, Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, Edward Adelbert Doisy, and Draža Mihailović. Among people deceased in 1937, Mikhail Tukhachevsky ranks 16. Before him are Erich Ludendorff, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Lou Andreas-Salomé, George Gershwin, Gustaf Dalén, and Jagadish Chandra Bose. After him are Yevgeny Zamyatin, J. M. Barrie, Gerda Taro, Austen Chamberlain, Gaston Doumergue, and Andrew Mellon.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Mikhail Tukhachevsky ranks 113 out of 3,761. Before him are Mikhail Bakhtin (1895), Mikhail Botvinnik (1911), Arnold Sommerfeld (1868), Tokhtamysh (1342), Svetlana Alliluyeva (1926), and Mikhail Lermontov (1814). After him are Yevgeny Prigozhin (1961), Grigory Potemkin (1739), Anatoly Karpov (1951), Vladimir Komarov (1927), Ivan VI of Russia (1740), and Olga of Kiev (890).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Russia

Among military personnels born in Russia, Mikhail Tukhachevsky ranks 7. Before him are Vasily Zaitsev (1915), Mikhail Kutuzov (1745), Stanislav Petrov (1939), Vasily Arkhipov (1926), Ivan Konev (1897), and Alexander Suvorov (1730). After him are Yevgeny Prigozhin (1961), Vasily Chuikov (1900), Pyotr Bagration (1765), Semyon Budyonny (1883), Felix Steiner (1896), and Aleksandr Vasilevsky (1895).

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