MILITARY PERSONNEL

Yakov Smushkevich

1902 - 1941

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Yakov Vladimirovich Smushkevich (Lithuanian: Jakovas Smuškevičius, Russian: Яков Владимирович Смушкевич, also Яков Вульфович Смушкевич,; 14 April [O.S. 1 April] 1902 – 28 October 1941) was the Commander of the Soviet Air Forces from 1939 to 1940 and the first Jewish Hero of the Soviet Union. Arrested shortly before the start of Operation Barbarossa on falsified charges of being part of an anti-Soviet conspiracy, he became the only man to receive the Hero of the Soviet Union twice and then be executed. The charges were posthumously dropped and he was rehabilitated in 1954. He participated in the Spanish Civil War, where he was known as "General Douglas". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yakov Smushkevich is the 1,578th most popular military personnel (up from 1,612th in 2019), the 115th most popular biography from Lithuania (down from 110th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Lithuanian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Yakov Smushkevich ranks 1,578 out of 2,058. Before him are Doris Miller, Jean Decoux, Robert Gould Shaw, Otto Deßloch, François Le Fort, and Tommy Franks. After him are Erich Abraham, Walter von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt, Bernardo de Gálvez, Karl von Pflanzer-Baltin, François Perrier, and Vasyl Makukh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Yakov Smushkevich ranks 197. Before him are Panagiotis Kanellopoulos, Ida Siekmann, Veniamin Kaverin, Ansel Adams, Lon L. Fuller, and Max Abegglen. After him are Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Albert Namatjira, Dulce María Loynaz, Pierre Brunet, Paavo Yrjölä, and Carlos Spadaro. Among people deceased in 1941, Yakov Smushkevich ranks 136. Before him are Georgette Leblanc, Alfred Pringsheim, Miina Härma, Huseyn Javid, Charles Murray, and Nazikeda Kadın. After him are Jin Shuren, Helen Morgan, Leo Deutsch, Anton Reichenow, Chris Watson, and Franciszek Kleeberg.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Yakov Smushkevich ranks 115 out of 328. Before him are Oskar Minkowski (1858), Laurynas Gucevičius (1753), Justinas Marcinkevičius (1930), Algirdas Butkevičius (1958), Virgilijus Alekna (1972), and Romas Kalanta (1953). After him are Jonas Staugaitis (1868), Osip Piatnitsky (1882), Władysław Kozakiewicz (1953), Maironis (1862), Aharon Barak (1936), and Jacques Sernas (1925).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Lithuania

Among military personnels born in Lithuania, Yakov Smushkevich ranks 8. Before him are Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg (1913), Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz (1883), Iosif Igelström (1737), Ieronim Uborevich (1896), Maciej Sulkiewicz (1865), and Silvestras Žukauskas (1860).

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