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Nikolai Ogarkov

1917 - 1994

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Nikolai Vasilyevich Ogarkov (Russian: Николай Васильевич Огарков; 30 October 1917 – 23 January 1994) was a prominent Soviet military personality. He was promoted to Marshal of the Soviet Union in 1977. Between 1977 and 1984, he was Chief of the General Staff of the USSR. He became widely known in the West when he became the Soviet military's spokesman following the shootdown of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 near Moneron Island in September 1983. He was dismissed as Chief of the General Staff on 6 September 1984. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nikolai Ogarkov is the 815th most popular military personnel (down from 707th in 2019), the 656th most popular biography from Russia (down from 583rd in 2019) and the 56th most popular Russian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Nikolai Ogarkov ranks 815 out of 2,058. Before him are Barthélemy Catherine Joubert, Shūmei Ōkawa, Fakhri Pasha, Karel Doorman, Ling Tong, and John Sullivan. After him are Oda Nobutaka, Abu Bakr ibn Umar, Max von Gallwitz, Artabanes, Meliton Kantaria, and Paul Revere.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Nikolai Ogarkov ranks 109. Before him are Raymond Burr, László Szabó, Zhang Chunqiao, Buddy Rich, Otto Kittel, and Andrew Wyeth. After him are Giuseppe De Santis, Wilhelm Brasse, Phaedon Gizikis, Pedro Infante, Charlotte Salomon, and Sharof Rashidov. Among people deceased in 1994, Nikolai Ogarkov ranks 92. Before him are Golo Mann, Johannes Steinhoff, Juan Carlos Onetti, Cesar Romero, Olga Rubtsova, and Manfred Wörner. After him are Wilma Rudolph, Claude Akins, Cab Calloway, Motoo Kimura, R. D. Burman, and Paisios of Mount Athos.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolai Ogarkov ranks 656 out of 3,761. Before him are Dmitry Muratov (1961), Eldar Ryazanov (1927), Yaroslav of Tver (1230), Yuri Averbakh (1922), Viktor Hartmann (1834), and Sophia Perovskaya (1853). After him are Alexander Bortnikov (1951), Lev Pontryagin (1908), Sergey Taboritsky (1897), Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev (1906), Viktor Medvedchuk (1954), and Zinaida Gippius (1869).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Russia

Among military personnels born in Russia, Nikolai Ogarkov ranks 56. Before him are Werner Ostendorff (1903), Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev (1843), Dietrich von Saucken (1892), Nikolai Kuznetsov (1904), Boris Sheremetev (1652), and Nikolay Gumilyov (1886). After him are Mikhail Miloradovich (1771), Nikolay Voronov (1899), Iosif Gurko (1828), Nikolai Berzarin (1904), Alexey Kaledin (1861), and Karl Lennart Oesch (1892).

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