Konstantin Rokossovsky

Konstantin Rokossovsky

Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky (Russian: Константин Константинович (Ксаверьевич) Рокоссовский; Polish: Konstanty Rokossowski; 21 December 1896 – 3 August 1968) was a Soviet and Polish officer who became a Marshal of the Soviet Union, a Marshal of Poland, and served as Poland's Defence Minister from 1949 until his removal in 1956 during the Polish October. He became one of the most prominent Red Army commanders of World War II. Born in Warsaw (in present-day Poland; then part of the Russian Empire), or, according to other sources, in Velikiye Luki, Rokossovsky served in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I. In 1917 he joined the Red Guards and in 1918 the newly-formed Red Army; he fought with great distinction during the Russian Civil War of 1917–1922. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Konstantin Rokossovsky has received more than 1,523,572 page views. His biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 56 in 2019). Konstantin Rokossovsky is the 96th most popular military personnel (down from 89th in 2019), the 97th most popular biography from Russia (down from 49th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Russian Military Personnel.

Konstantin Rokossovsky is most famous for his role in the Battle of Stalingrad.