MILITARY PERSONNEL

Kirill Meretskov

1897 - 1968

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Kirill Afanasievich Meretskov (Russian: Кири́лл Афана́сьевич Мерецко́в; 7 June [O.S. 26 May] 1897 – 30 December 1968) was a Soviet military commander. Having joined the Communist Party in 1917, he served in the Red Army from 1920. During the Winter War of 1939–1940 against Finland, he had the task of penetrating the Mannerheim Line as commander of the 7th Army. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kirill Meretskov has received more than 307,020 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Kirill Meretskov is the 365th most popular military personnel (down from 325th in 2019), the 305th most popular biography from Russia (down from 281st in 2019) and the 29th most popular Russian Military Personnel.

Kirill Meretskov is most famous for being a Soviet military commander in World War II.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Kirill Meretskov ranks 365 out of 2,058. Before him are Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, Levin August von Bennigsen, Sergei Skripal, Nicolas Chauvin, Tomoyuki Yamashita, and Ban Chao. After him are Iwane Matsui, Lü Meng, Alexander Yegorov, Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen, Leonid Govorov, and François Achille Bazaine.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Kirill Meretskov ranks 40. Before him are Hasso von Manteuffel, Plaek Phibunsongkhram, Georg Wittig, Karl-Otto Koch, Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, and Patrick Blackett. After him are Vlado Chernozemski, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Joseph Berchtold, John Franklin Enders, Leonid Govorov, and Gershom Scholem. Among people deceased in 1968, Kirill Meretskov ranks 30. Before him are Kees van Dongen, José Nasazzi, Pitirim Sorokin, Ivan Ribar, Neal Cassady, and Alice Guy-Blaché. After him are Alexandre Kojève, Giovanni Messe, Vittorio Pozzo, Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, Vasily Sokolovsky, and Lucio Fontana.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Kirill Meretskov ranks 305 out of 3,761. Before him are Viktor Shklovsky (1893), Sergei Skripal (1951), Nikolai Kondratiev (1892), Vladimir Ashkenazy (1937), Viktor Korchnoi (1931), and Leonid Hurwicz (1917). After him are Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia (1832), Alexandre Kojève (1902), Prince Paul of Yugoslavia (1893), Alexander Yegorov (1883), Georgy Chicherin (1872), and Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia (1860).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Russia

Among military personnels born in Russia, Kirill Meretskov ranks 29. Before him are Fyodor Tolbukhin (1894), Nikolai Yudenich (1862), Yermak Timofeyevich (1532), Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1856), Andrei Grechko (1903), and Sergei Skripal (1951). After him are Alexander Yegorov (1883), Leonid Govorov (1897), Vasily Arkhipov (1926), Nikolai Kuznetsov (1904), Zinovy Rozhestvensky (1848), and Pavel Nakhimov (1802).

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