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Vasily Blyukher

1889 - 1938

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Vasily Konstantinovich Blyukher (Russian: Васи́лий Константи́нович Блю́хер, romanized: Vasiliy Konstantinovich Blyukher; 1 December 1889 – 9 November 1938) was a Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union. In 1938, Blyukher was arrested during the period of military purges under Joseph Stalin. He was tortured and blinded by Lavrentiy Beria and his men before succumbing to his injuries. His body was then incinerated on the orders of Stalin. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vasily Blyukher is the 315th most popular military personnel (down from 305th in 2019), the 259th most popular biography from Russia (down from 246th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Russian Military Personnel.

Vasily Blyukher was a Soviet military commander who led the Red Army during the Great Patriotic War. He was most famous for leading the Soviet forces to victory in the Battle of Smolensk.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Vasily Blyukher ranks 315 out of 2,058. Before him are Paul Tibbets, Orda Khan, Roman Shukhevych, Nicolas Oudinot, Rochus Misch, and Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque. After him are Henry Clinton, Zhang Liao, Alexander Löhr, Roger de Flor, Ivan Paskevich, and François Christophe de Kellermann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Vasily Blyukher ranks 31. Before him are Louise Mountbatten, Otto Frank, Risto Ryti, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Jacob L. Moreno, and Victor Fleming. After him are Hans-Jürgen von Arnim, Zalman Shazar, Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, Pitirim Sorokin, Mercédès Jellinek, and Sadhu Sundar Singh. Among people deceased in 1938, Vasily Blyukher ranks 29. Before him are Osip Mandelstam, Suzanne Lenglen, Robert Johnson, King Oliver, Lev Shestov, and Bruno Taut. After him are Hans Christian Gram, Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, William Stern, Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, Marianne von Werefkin, and John Flanagan.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vasily Blyukher ranks 259 out of 3,761. Before him are Gennady Yanayev (1937), Anastasia Romanovna (1530), Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1890), Aleksey Kuropatkin (1848), Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg (1599), and Alexandre Kojève (1902). After him are Algirdas Julien Greimas (1917), Johann Georg Hamann (1730), Viktor Korchnoi (1931), Viktor Vasnetsov (1848), Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia (1891), and Igor Kurchatov (1903).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Russia

Among military personnels born in Russia, Vasily Blyukher ranks 19. Before him are Aleksandr Vasilevsky (1895), Gotthard Heinrici (1886), Andrey Vlasov (1901), Johannes Blaskowitz (1883), Yermak Timofeyevich (1532), and Vasily Stalin (1921). After him are Nikolai Yudenich (1862), Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1856), Valery Gerasimov (1955), Nikolai Vatutin (1901), Dmitry Yazov (1924), and Fyodor Tolbukhin (1894).

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