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Semyon Timoshenko

1895 - 1970

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Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko (Russian: Семён Константинович Тимошенко, romanized: Semon Konstantinovich Timoshenko; Ukrainian: Семен Костянтинович Тимошенко, romanized: Semen Kostyantynovych Tymoshenko; 18 February [O.S. 6 February] 1895 – 31 March 1970) was a Soviet military commander, Marshal of the Soviet Union, and one of the most prominent Red Army commanders during the Second World War. Born to a Ukrainian family in Bessarabia, Timoshenko was drafted into the Imperial Russian Army and saw action in the First World War as a cavalryman. On the outbreak of the Russian Revolution he joined the Red Army. He served with distinction during the Russian Civil War and the subsequent Polish–Soviet War, which brought him into Vladimir Lenin's and Joseph Stalin's favour. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Semyon Timoshenko is the 129th most popular military personnel (up from 157th in 2019), the 48th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 53rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Ukrainian Military Personnel.

Semyon Timoshenko was a Soviet military commander who was most famous for his leadership of the Red Army during the Battle of Moscow in 1941.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Semyon Timoshenko ranks 129 out of 2,058. Before him are Gaius Julius Caesar, Ferdinand Schörner, Miloš Obilić, Akechi Mitsuhide, Stilicho, and Muhammad bin Qasim. After him are Cimon, Louis-Nicolas Davout, Vasily Chuikov, Hermann Hoth, Jean-de-Dieu Soult, and Roman von Ungern-Sternberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Semyon Timoshenko ranks 22. Before him are Richard Sorge, Wilm Hosenfeld, William Giauque, Max Horkheimer, Paul Éluard, and Paul Hindemith. After him are Ragnar Frisch, Dolores Ibárruri, Gerhard Domagk, Anastas Mikoyan, Sergei Yesenin, and Henrik Dam. Among people deceased in 1970, Semyon Timoshenko ranks 22. Before him are Otto Heinrich Warburg, François Mauriac, Paul Celan, Peter II of Yugoslavia, Mark Rothko, and C. V. Raman. After him are Rudolf Carnap, Heinrich Brüning, Alfred Newman, Jochen Rindt, Napoleon Hill, and Eric Berne.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Semyon Timoshenko ranks 48 out of 1,365. Before him are Trofim Lysenko (1898), Symon Petliura (1879), Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836), Igor Sikorsky (1889), George Gamow (1904), and Joseph Roth (1894). After him are Vladimir II Monomakh (1053), Stanislaw Ulam (1909), Andrei Zhdanov (1896), Vladimir Horowitz (1903), Sergei Korolev (1906), and Andrei Chikatilo (1936).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Ukraine

Among military personnels born in Ukraine, Semyon Timoshenko ranks 4. Before him are Bohdan Khmelnytsky (1595), Nestor Makhno (1888), and Lyudmila Pavlichenko (1916). After him are John Demjanjuk (1920), Andrey Yeryomenko (1892), Roman Shukhevych (1907), Ivan Paskevich (1782), Alexander Samsonov (1859), Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski (1895), Vladimir Gelfand (1923), and Alfred Redl (1864).

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