MILITARY PERSONNEL

Sergey Sokolov

1911 - 2012

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Sergei Leonidovich Sokolov (Russian: Серге́й Леони́дович Соколо́в; 1 July 1911 – 31 August 2012) was a Soviet military commander, Hero of the Soviet Union, and served as Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union from 22 December 1984 until 29 May 1987. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sergey Sokolov has received more than 1,851 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Sergey Sokolov is the 380th most popular military personnel (down from 319th in 2019).

Sergey Sokolov is most famous for his involvement in the Russian space program. He was a Soviet scientist who helped design the first satellite, Sputnik 1, and the first human-made object to enter orbit around the Earth.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Sergey Sokolov ranks 380 out of 2,058. Before him are Giovanni Messe, Zhang He, Luigi Cadorna, Vasily Arkhipov, Otto Kretschmer, and Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski. After him are Gustav Wagner, Götz von Berlichingen, Cao Ren, John Franklin, Otto von Below, and Lazare Hoche.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Sergey Sokolov ranks 47. Before him are John Archibald Wheeler, Herta Oberheuser, Louise Bourgeois, Richard Baer, L. Ron Hubbard, and Bruno Kreisky. After him are Gustav Wagner, Cantinflas, J. L. Austin, Vincent Price, Henri Troyat, and Samuel Reshevsky. Among people deceased in 2012, Sergey Sokolov ranks 40. Before him are Larry Hagman, Kiro Gligorov, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Benzion Netanyahu, Lucio Dalla, and Oscar Luigi Scalfaro. After him are Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, E. Donnall Thomas, Carl Woese, Erland Josephson, Andrew Huxley, and Stephen Covey.

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