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Sergey Akhromeyev

1923 - 1991

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Sergey Fyodorovich Akhromeyev (Russian: Серге́й Фёдорович Ахроме́ев; May 5, 1923 – August 24, 1991) was a Soviet military figure, Hero of the Soviet Union (1982) and Marshal of the Soviet Union (1983). When he was the first deputy chief of staff of the Soviet Army, he formulated a military plan to invade Afghanistan. He later served as Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces from 1984 to 1988 and as chief military adviser to General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev. A member of the State Committee on the State of Emergency during the 1991 Soviet coup attempt, Akhromeyev died by suicide after the failure of the coup. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sergey Akhromeyev is the 706th most popular military personnel (up from 722nd in 2019), the 567th most popular biography from Russia (up from 603rd in 2019) and the 49th most popular Russian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Sergey Akhromeyev ranks 706 out of 2,058. Before him are Tatya Tope, Walter Stennes, Nicolaus von Below, Hyacinth Graf Strachwitz, Israel Tal, and Husband E. Kimmel. After him are Oleksandr Syrskyi, Vitalian, Zhuge Jin, Mario Terán, Alexander Marinesko, and August Hirt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Sergey Akhromeyev ranks 93. Before him are Leonid Gaidai, Stig Dagerman, Lola Flores, Richard Avedon, Zarifa Aliyeva, and Gyula Lóránt. After him are Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, Hank Williams, Ernest Mandel, Yves Bonnefoy, André Gorz, and Albert King. Among people deceased in 1991, Sergey Akhromeyev ranks 71. Before him are María Zambrano, Boris Pugo, Vilém Flusser, Willi Boskovsky, Tom of Finland, and Ralph Bellamy. After him are André Pieyre de Mandiargues, Gene Roddenberry, John Kerr, Eric Carr, Joachim Kroll, and Héctor Rial.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Sergey Akhromeyev ranks 567 out of 3,761. Before him are Viktor Chernov (1873), Mikhail Skobelev (1843), Yakov Sinai (1935), Nikolai Ge (1831), Anund Gårdske (1004), and Viktor Abakumov (1908). After him are Alexander von Middendorff (1815), Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia (1798), Alexander Butlerov (1828), Matvei Zakharov (1898), Vyacheslav Menzhinsky (1874), and Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia (1825).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Russia

Among military personnels born in Russia, Sergey Akhromeyev ranks 49. Before him are Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov (1787), Alexander Pokryshkin (1913), Lauri Törni (1919), Werner Kempf (1886), Markian Popov (1902), and Mikhail Skobelev (1843). After him are Werner Ostendorff (1903), Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev (1843), Dietrich von Saucken (1892), Nikolai Kuznetsov (1904), Boris Sheremetev (1652), and Nikolay Gumilyov (1886).

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