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Nikolai Vatutin

1901 - 1944

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Nikolai Fyodorovich Vatutin (Russian: Николай Фёдорович Ватутин; 16 December 1901 – 15 April 1944) was a Soviet military commander during World War II who was responsible for many Red Army operations in the Ukrainian SSR as the commander of the Southwestern Front, and of the Voronezh Front during the Battle of Kursk. During the Soviet offensive to retake right-bank Ukraine, Vatutin led the 1st Ukrainian Front, which was responsible for the Red Army's offensives to the west and the southwest of Kiev and the eventual liberation of the city. He was ambushed and killed in February 1944 by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nikolai Vatutin is the 345th most popular military personnel (down from 264th in 2019), the 276th most popular biography from Russia (down from 218th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Russian Military Personnel.

Nikolai Vatutin is most famous for his role in the Battle of Stalingrad.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Nikolai Vatutin ranks 345 out of 2,058. Before him are Valery Gerasimov, Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, Matthew C. Perry, François Joseph Lefebvre, Kim Philby, and Meng Tian. After him are Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim, Jozef Gabčík, Dmitry Yazov, John J. Pershing, Italo Balbo, and Leopold Joseph von Daun.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Nikolai Vatutin ranks 54. Before him are Milton H. Erickson, Henri Lefebvre, Walter Hallstein, Eisaku Satō, José Nasazzi, and Carl Barks. After him are Lee Strasberg, Louis Kahn, Luis Monti, Pier Giorgio Frassati, Manly P. Hall, and Mildred Harris. Among people deceased in 1944, Nikolai Vatutin ranks 53. Before him are Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Mohammed Alim Khan, Werner von Haeften, Giovanni Gentile, Max Jacob, and Eduard Dietl. After him are Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim, Princess Mafalda of Savoy, Florence Foster Jenkins, Leo Baekeland, Ida Tarbell, and Cécile Chaminade.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolai Vatutin ranks 276 out of 3,761. Before him are Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia (1553), Alexander Blok (1880), Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1856), Nikolay Karamzin (1766), Valery Gerasimov (1955), and Iziaslav I of Kiev (1024). After him are Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1757), Dmitry Yazov (1924), Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia (1847), Ivan II of Moscow (1326), Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia (1827), and Pitirim Sorokin (1889).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Russia

Among military personnels born in Russia, Nikolai Vatutin ranks 23. Before him are Yermak Timofeyevich (1532), Vasily Stalin (1921), Vasily Blyukher (1889), Nikolai Yudenich (1862), Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1856), and Valery Gerasimov (1955). After him are Dmitry Yazov (1924), Fyodor Tolbukhin (1894), Boris Shaposhnikov (1882), Andrei Grechko (1903), Gerhard Barkhorn (1919), and Kirill Meretskov (1897).

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