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Semyon Budyonny

1883 - 1973

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Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny (Russian: Семён Миха́йлович Будённый, romanized: Semyon Mikháylovich Budyonnyy, IPA: [sʲɪˈmʲɵn mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪdʑ bʊˈdʲɵnːɨj] ; 25 April [O.S. 13 April] 1883 – 26 October 1973) was a Russian and Soviet cavalryman, military commander during the Russian Civil War, Polish–Soviet War and World War II, and politician, who was a close political ally of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. Born to a poor peasant family from the Don Cossack region in southern Russia, Budyonny was drafted into the Imperial Russian Army in 1903. He served with distinction in a dragoon regiment during the First World War, earning all four classes of the Order of St. George. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Semyon Budyonny is the 175th most popular military personnel (down from 164th in 2019), the 159th most popular biography from Russia (down from 151st in 2019) and the 11th most popular Russian Military Personnel.

Semyon Budyonny was a Soviet military commander who was most famous for leading the Red Army to victory in the Russian Civil War.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Semyon Budyonny ranks 175 out of 2,058. Before him are Khalifa Haftar, Antipater, George Armstrong Custer, Anton Denikin, Louis, Grand Condé, and Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse. After him are Maurice de Saxe, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Pittacus of Mytilene, Giovanni Giustiniani, Józef Poniatowski, and Michiel de Ruyter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Semyon Budyonny ranks 25. Before him are Morihei Ueshiba, Clement Attlee, Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria, Edgard Varèse, Lon Chaney, and Theo van Doesburg. After him are Maurice Utrillo, Napoleon Hill, Mohammed Nadir Shah, Wang Jingwei, Andrey Vyshinsky, and Celâl Bayar. Among people deceased in 1973, Semyon Budyonny ranks 32. Before him are Ferdinand Schörner, Max Horkheimer, Ragnar Frisch, Pablo Casals, Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, and Selman Waksman. After him are Gabriel Marcel, Walter Rudolf Hess, Víctor Jara, Ingeborg Bachmann, Gerard Kuiper, and Jacques Maritain.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Semyon Budyonny ranks 159 out of 3,761. Before him are Anna Pavlovna of Russia (1795), Ivan Bunin (1870), Feodor II of Russia (1589), Christian Goldbach (1690), Raisa Gorbacheva (1932), and Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884). After him are Lyudmila Putina (1958), Patriarch Kirill of Moscow (1946), Genrikh Yagoda (1891), Ivan Shishkin (1832), Sofia Gubaidulina (1931), and Ivan Goncharov (1812).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Russia

Among military personnels born in Russia, Semyon Budyonny ranks 11. Before him are Ivan Konev (1897), Alexander Suvorov (1730), Mikhail Tukhachevsky (1893), Yevgeny Prigozhin (1961), Vasily Chuikov (1900), and Pyotr Bagration (1765). After him are Felix Steiner (1896), Aleksandr Vasilevsky (1895), Gotthard Heinrici (1886), Andrey Vlasov (1901), Johannes Blaskowitz (1883), and Yermak Timofeyevich (1532).

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