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Andrey Vlasov

1901 - 1946

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Andrey Andreyevich Vlasov (Russian: Андрей Андреевич Власов, September 14 [O.S. September 1] 1901 – August 1, 1946) was a Soviet Russian Red Army general. During the Axis-Soviet campaigns of World War II he fought (1941–1942) against the Wehrmacht in the Battle of Moscow and later was captured attempting to lift the siege of Leningrad. After his capture, he defected to the Third Reich and nominally headed the collaborationist Russian Liberation Army (Russkaya osvoboditel'naya armiya, ROA), also becoming the political leader of the Russian collaborationist anti-Soviet movement. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andrey Vlasov has received more than 1,093,389 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Andrey Vlasov is the 201st most popular military personnel (down from 164th in 2019), the 175th most popular biography from Russia (down from 151st in 2019) and the 14th most popular Russian Military Personnel.

Andrey Vlasov is most famous for being the first person to walk in space.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Andrey Vlasov ranks 201 out of 2,058. Before him are Syagrius, Date Masamune, Dietrich von Choltitz, Aleksei Brusilov, Bai Qi, and Maximilian von Weichs. After him are Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Viscount of Turenne, Oskar Dirlewanger, Sun Jian, Henning von Tresckow, Lavr Kornilov, and Yue Fei.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Andrey Vlasov ranks 33. Before him are Joaquín Rodrigo, Simon Kuznets, Max Euwe, Salvatore Quasimodo, Ricardo Zamora, and Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej. After him are Henning von Tresckow, Witold Pilecki, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Jaroslav Seifert, Milton H. Erickson, and Margaret Mead. Among people deceased in 1946, Andrey Vlasov ranks 29. Before him are Manuel de Falla, Paul Langevin, Ferenc Szálasi, Ananda Mahidol, Gilbert N. Lewis, and Helene Schjerfbeck. After him are László Moholy-Nagy, Wilhelm Marx, Amon Göth, Kurt Daluege, Felix Hoffmann, and Karl Hermann Frank.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Andrey Vlasov ranks 175 out of 3,761. Before him are Vladimir Vernadsky (1863), Johannes Blaskowitz (1883), Alexei Leonov (1934), Pavel Cherenkov (1904), Patriarch Kirill of Moscow (1946), and Öz Beg Khan (1282). After him are Yakov Sverdlov (1885), Witold Pilecki (1901), Felix Yusupov (1887), Sergei Diaghilev (1872), Wladimir Köppen (1846), and Roman Abramovich (1966).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Russia

Among military personnels born in Russia, Andrey Vlasov ranks 14. Before him are Vasily Chuikov (1900), Pyotr Bagration (1765), Aleksandr Vasilevsky (1895), Semyon Budyonny (1883), Felix Steiner (1896), and Johannes Blaskowitz (1883). After him are Gotthard Heinrici (1886), Valery Gerasimov (1955), Vasily Stalin (1921), Nikolai Vatutin (1901), Gerhard Barkhorn (1919), and Vasily Blyukher (1889).

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