MILITARY PERSONNEL

Lavr Kornilov

1870 - 1918

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Lavr Georgiyevich Kornilov (Russian: Лавр Гео́ргиевич Корни́лов, IPA: [ˈlavr ɡʲɪˈorɡʲɪjɪvʲɪtɕ kɐrˈnʲiləf]; 30 August [O.S. 18 August] 1870 – 13 April 1918) was a Russian military intelligence officer, explorer, and general in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I. He served as Supreme Commander of the Russian Army and as the military leader of the Whites in the Russian Civil War. He is particularly remembered for the Kornilov affair, an unsuccessful coup d’etat against the Provisional Government led by Alexander Kerensky. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lavr Kornilov has received more than 838,444 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Lavr Kornilov is the 206th most popular military personnel (up from 208th in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from Kazakhstan (down from 7th in 2019) and the most popular Kazakhstani Military Personnel.

Lavr kornilov was a Russian general who led the Kornilov Affair, an attempted coup d'état against the Russian Provisional Government in 1917.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Lavr Kornilov ranks 206 out of 2,058. Before him are Maximilian von Weichs, Andrey Vlasov, Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Viscount of Turenne, Oskar Dirlewanger, Sun Jian, and Henning von Tresckow. After him are Yue Fei, George Armstrong Custer, Erhard Milch, Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, Slobodan Praljak, and Sun Ce.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Lavr Kornilov ranks 15. Before him are Albert Fish, Miguel Primo de Rivera, William G. Morgan, Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Juho Kusti Paasikivi, and Karl Renner. After him are Ivan Bunin, Louis II, Prince of Monaco, Gustav Bauer, Josef Hoffmann, Maurice Denis, and Clara Immerwahr. Among people deceased in 1918, Lavr Kornilov ranks 28. Before him are Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Georgi Plekhanov, Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine, Roland Garros, Niko Pirosmani, and Fanny Kaplan. After him are César Cui, Frederick Trump, Ferdinand Hodler, Edmond Rostand, Hermann Cohen, and Arrigo Boito.

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In Kazakhstan

Among people born in Kazakhstan, Lavr Kornilov ranks 8 out of 193. Before him are Nursultan Nazarbayev (1940), Ahmad Yasawi (1103), Seljuk (902), Muhammad Shaybani (1451), Kassym-Jomart Tokayev (1953), and Akhmad Kadyrov (1951). After him are Abai Qunanbaiuly (1845), Vladimir Zhirinovsky (1946), Aslan Maskhadov (1951), Tughlugh Timur (1329), Edigu (1352), and Ablai Khan (1711).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Kazakhstan

Among military personnels born in Kazakhstan, Lavr Kornilov ranks 1. After him are Bauyrzhan Momyshuly (1910), Manshuk Mametova (1922), Khiuaz Dospanova (1922), Nina Lobkovskaya (1925), and Andrey Mordvichev (1976).

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