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Leonid Govorov

1897 - 1955

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Leonid Aleksandrovich Govorov (Russian: Леони́д Алекса́ндрович Го́воров; 22 February [O.S. 10 February] 1897 – 19 March 1955) was a Soviet military commander. Trained as an artillery officer, he joined the Red Army in 1920. He graduated from several Soviet military academies, including the Military Academy of Red Army General Staff. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leonid Govorov has received more than 244,557 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Leonid Govorov is the 370th most popular military personnel (up from 390th in 2019), the 315th most popular biography from Russia (up from 332nd in 2019) and the 31st most popular Russian Military Personnel.

Leonid Gavrilovich Gavrilov is most famous for his work in the field of physiology and medicine. In particular, he is known for his work on the regulation of body temperature. He is also known for his discovery of the role of the hypothalamus in regulating body temperature.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 3.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Leonid Govorov ranks 370 out of 2,058. Before him are Ban Chao, Kirill Meretskov, Iwane Matsui, Lü Meng, Alexander Yegorov, and Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen. After him are François Achille Bazaine, Ashraf Marwan, Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Giovanni Messe, Zhang He, and Luigi Cadorna.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Leonid Govorov ranks 45. Before him are Patrick Blackett, Kirill Meretskov, Vlado Chernozemski, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Joseph Berchtold, and John Franklin Enders. After him are Gershom Scholem, John Cockcroft, Margaret Mahler, Emil Maurice, Vasily Sokolovsky, and Ye Jianying. Among people deceased in 1955, Leonid Govorov ranks 27. Before him are Pak Hon-yong, Carmen Miranda, Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria, Hermann Weyl, Oswald Avery, and Garegin Nzhdeh. After him are Mihály Károlyi, Michael Chekhov, Vasily Blokhin, Rodolphe Seeldrayers, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, and Mammad Amin Rasulzadeh.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Leonid Govorov ranks 315 out of 3,761. Before him are Alexander Yegorov (1883), Georgy Chicherin (1872), Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia (1860), Nikolai Patrushev (1951), Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933), and Karl Bryullov (1799). After him are Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia (1784), Vasily Arkhipov (1926), Mikhail Mishustin (1966), Andrey Markov (1856), Andrey Bogolyubsky (1111), and Nikolay Pirogov (1810).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Russia

Among military personnels born in Russia, Leonid Govorov ranks 31. Before him are Yermak Timofeyevich (1532), Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1856), Andrei Grechko (1903), Sergei Skripal (1951), Kirill Meretskov (1897), and Alexander Yegorov (1883). After him are Vasily Arkhipov (1926), Nikolai Kuznetsov (1904), Zinovy Rozhestvensky (1848), Pavel Nakhimov (1802), Viktor Kulikov (1921), and Fyodor Ushakov (1745).

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