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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Boris Shaposhnikov

1882 - 1945

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Boris Mikhaylovich Shaposhnikov (Russian: Бори́с Миха́йлович Ша́пошников) (2 October [O.S. 20 September] 1882 – 26 March 1945) was a Soviet military officer, theoretician and Marshal of the Soviet Union. He served as the Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces from 1928 to 1931 and at the start of the Second World War. Shaposhnikov was one of the foremost military theorists during the Stalin-era. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Boris Shaposhnikov has received more than 326,151 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia. Boris Shaposhnikov is the 281st most popular military personnel (up from 291st in 2019), the 236th most popular biography from Russia (up from 253rd in 2019) and the 19th most popular Russian Military Personnel.

Boris Shaposhnikov is most famous for his work on the Soviet Union's military industry during the 1930s. He was the head of the Red Army's artillery department and oversaw the production of weapons during World War II.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Boris Shaposhnikov ranks 281 out of 1,468. Before him are Oenomaus, Wang Jian, Reinhard Gehlen, Gerhard Barkhorn, Alexandre de Beauharnais, and Karl Wolff. After him are Vasily Blyukher, Orda Khan, Kurt Knispel, Slobodan Praljak, Ishida Mitsunari, and Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Boris Shaposhnikov ranks 41. Before him are Princess Marie Bonaparte, Hans Geiger, Arthur Eddington, Bela Lugosi, Nicolai Hartmann, and Robert H. Goddard. After him are René Coty, Moritz Schlick, Karol Szymanowski, Otto Neurath, Yanka Kupala, and Friedrich Dollmann. Among people deceased in 1945, Boris Shaposhnikov ranks 62. Before him are Edith Frank, Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Margot Frank, René Lalique, Robert H. Goddard, and Fumimaro Konoe. After him are Kurt Knispel, Ludwig Stumpfegger, Georg Elser, Juana Bormann, Arthur Nebe, and Odilo Globočnik.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Boris Shaposhnikov ranks 236 out of 3,262. Before him are Mikhail Mishustin (1966), Gerhard Barkhorn (1919), Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia (1847), Olga Constantinovna of Russia (1851), Ivan Goncharov (1812), and Sabina Spielrein (1885). After him are Oleg Antonov (1906), Alexander Luria (1902), Vasily Blyukher (1889), Gustav Bauer (1870), Boris Berezovsky (1946), and Lyudmila Putina (1958).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Russia

Among military personnels born in Russia, Boris Shaposhnikov ranks 19. Before him are Felix Steiner (1896), Gotthard Heinrici (1886), Nikolai Vatutin (1901), Vasily Stalin (1921), Yermak Timofeyevich (1532), and Gerhard Barkhorn (1919). After him are Vasily Blyukher (1889), Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1856), Alexander Yegorov (1883), Dmitry Yazov (1924), Fyodor Tolbukhin (1894), and Nikolai Yudenich (1862).

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