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Semyon Budyonny

1883 - 1973

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Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny (Russian: Семён Миха́йлович Будённый, romanized: Semyon Mikháylovich Budyonnyy, IPA: [sʲɪˈmʲɵn mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪdʑ bʊˈdʲɵnːɨj] ; 25 April [O.S. 13 April] 1883 – 26 October 1973) was a Russian and Soviet cavalryman, military commander during the Russian Civil War, Polish–Soviet War and World War II, and politician, who was a close political ally of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. Born to a poor peasant family from the Don Cossack region in southern Russia, Budyonny was drafted into the Imperial Russian Army in 1903. He served with distinction in a dragoon regiment during the First World War, earning all four classes of the Order of St. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Semyon Budyonny has received more than 881,247 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Semyon Budyonny is the 164th most popular military personnel (down from 158th in 2019), the 151st most popular biography from Russia (down from 148th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Russian Military Personnel.

Semyon Budyonny was a Soviet military commander who was most famous for leading the Red Army to victory in the Russian Civil War.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Semyon Budyonny ranks 164 out of 2,058. Before him are Abraha, Hermann Fegelein, Alexander Selkirk, Joseph Joffre, Louis, Grand Condé, and Joachim Peiper. After him are Anton Denikin, Matilda of Tuscany, Paul Hausser, Dragut, Helmuth von Moltke the Younger, and Helmuth Weidling.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Semyon Budyonny ranks 20. Before him are Clement Attlee, Victor Francis Hess, Pierre Laval, José Ortega y Gasset, Morihei Ueshiba, and Otto Heinrich Warburg. After him are Maurice Utrillo, Norman Haworth, Theo van Doesburg, Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria, Johannes Blaskowitz, and Celâl Bayar. Among people deceased in 1973, Semyon Budyonny ranks 28. Before him are Max Horkheimer, Pablo Casals, Víctor Jara, Ferdinand Schörner, Charles Greeley Abbot, and Gabriel Marcel. After him are Anna Magnani, Ragnar Frisch, Hans Albert Einstein, Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Selman Waksman, and Jacques Maritain.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Semyon Budyonny ranks 151 out of 3,761. Before him are Walther Funk (1890), Alexei Kosygin (1904), Sergey Shoygu (1955), Gala Dalí (1894), Yemelyan Pugachev (1742), and Genrikh Yagoda (1891). After him are Alexey Stakhanov (1906), Andrey Kolmogorov (1903), Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884), Käthe Kollwitz (1867), Anatoly Dyatlov (1931), and Feodor II of Russia (1589).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Russia

Among military personnels born in Russia, Semyon Budyonny ranks 11. Before him are Alexander Suvorov (1730), Ivan Konev (1897), Mikhail Tukhachevsky (1893), Vasily Chuikov (1900), Pyotr Bagration (1765), and Aleksandr Vasilevsky (1895). After him are Felix Steiner (1896), Johannes Blaskowitz (1883), Andrey Vlasov (1901), Gotthard Heinrici (1886), Valery Gerasimov (1955), and Vasily Stalin (1921).

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