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Nikolai Vatutin

1901 - 1944

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Nikolai Fyodorovich Vatutin (Russian: Николай Фёдорович Ватутин; 16 December 1901 – 15 April 1944) was a Soviet military commander during World War II who was responsible for many Red Army operations in the Ukrainian SSR as the commander of the Southwestern Front, and of the Voronezh Front during the Battle of Kursk. During the Soviet offensive to retake right-bank Ukraine, Vatutin led the 1st Ukrainian Front, which was responsible for the Red Army's offensives to the west and the southwest of Kiev and the eventual liberation of the city. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nikolai Vatutin has received more than 391,534 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Nikolai Vatutin is the 264th most popular military personnel (down from 219th in 2019), the 218th most popular biography from Russia (down from 180th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Russian Military Personnel.

Nikolai Vatutin is most famous for his role in the Battle of Stalingrad.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Nikolai Vatutin ranks 264 out of 2,058. Before him are Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, Craterus, Hasdrubal Barca, Omar Bradley, Baiju, and Zhang Liao. After him are Erwin von Witzleben, Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, Pedro de Alvarado, Erich Hoepner, Orda Khan, and Robert Nivelle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Nikolai Vatutin ranks 42. Before him are Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Jaroslav Seifert, Milton H. Erickson, Margaret Mead, Robert Bresson, and Jascha Heifetz. After him are Henri Lefebvre, Vincent du Vigneaud, Alfred Tarski, José Nasazzi, Arthur Liebehenschel, and Carl Barks. Among people deceased in 1944, Nikolai Vatutin ranks 35. Before him are Wang Jingwei, Friedrich Olbricht, Arthur Eddington, Aristide Maillol, Glenn Miller, and Pehr Evind Svinhufvud. After him are Erwin von Witzleben, Gustav Bauer, Erich Hoepner, Antanas Smetona, Giovanni Gentile, and Werner von Haeften.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolai Vatutin ranks 218 out of 3,761. Before him are Nicholas Roerich (1874), Alexander Rodchenko (1891), Gennady Zyuganov (1944), Fritz Albert Lipmann (1899), Raisa Gorbacheva (1932), and Ivan Goncharov (1812). After him are Gustav Bauer (1870), Maya Plisetskaya (1925), Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia (1857), Alexander Oparin (1894), Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia (1827), and Nikolay Basov (1922).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Russia

Among military personnels born in Russia, Nikolai Vatutin ranks 18. Before him are Felix Steiner (1896), Johannes Blaskowitz (1883), Andrey Vlasov (1901), Gotthard Heinrici (1886), Valery Gerasimov (1955), and Vasily Stalin (1921). After him are Gerhard Barkhorn (1919), Vasily Blyukher (1889), Dmitry Yazov (1924), Boris Shaposhnikov (1882), Fyodor Tolbukhin (1894), and Nikolai Yudenich (1862).

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