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Vasily Blyukher

1889 - 1938

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Vasily Konstantinovich Blyukher (Russian: Васи́лий Константи́нович Блю́хер, romanized: Vasiliy Konstantinovich Blyukher; 1 December 1889 – 9 November 1938) was a Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union. In 1938, Blyukher was arrested during the period of military purges under Joseph Stalin. He was tortured and blinded by Lavrentiy Beria and his men before succumbing to his injuries. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vasily Blyukher has received more than 383,957 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Vasily Blyukher is the 305th most popular military personnel (down from 282nd in 2019), the 246th most popular biography from Russia (down from 238th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Russian Military Personnel.

Vasily Blyukher was a Soviet military commander who led the Red Army during the Great Patriotic War. He was most famous for leading the Soviet forces to victory in the Battle of Smolensk.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Vasily Blyukher ranks 305 out of 2,058. Before him are Polyperchon, Maurice Benyovszky, Rochus Misch, Meng Tian, Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy, and Alexander Löhr. After him are Dmitry Yazov, Kurt Meyer, Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Sejanus, John J. Pershing, and John Demjanjuk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Vasily Blyukher ranks 28. Before him are Han van Meegeren, Jacob L. Moreno, Risto Ryti, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Zalman Shazar, and Pitirim Sorokin. After him are Mercédès Jellinek, Taha Hussein, Victor Fleming, Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, Hans-Jürgen von Arnim, and Edgar Adrian. Among people deceased in 1938, Vasily Blyukher ranks 25. Before him are Muhammad Iqbal, Osip Mandelstam, Marie of Romania, Christian Lous Lange, Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and Bruno Taut. After him are Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia, Maud of Wales, Lev Shestov, Nikolai Kondratiev, Branislav Nušić, and Thomas Wolfe.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vasily Blyukher ranks 246 out of 3,761. Before him are Dmitri Ivanovsky (1864), Boris Nemtsov (1959), Pitirim Sorokin (1889), Nikolay Przhevalsky (1839), Arthur Adamov (1908), and Viktor Zubkov (1941). After him are Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia (1876), Dmitry Yazov (1924), Iziaslav I of Kiev (1024), Armin Mueller-Stahl (1930), Johann Georg Hamann (1730), and Pharnaces II of Pontus (-95).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Russia

Among military personnels born in Russia, Vasily Blyukher ranks 20. Before him are Andrey Vlasov (1901), Gotthard Heinrici (1886), Valery Gerasimov (1955), Vasily Stalin (1921), Nikolai Vatutin (1901), and Gerhard Barkhorn (1919). After him are Dmitry Yazov (1924), Boris Shaposhnikov (1882), Fyodor Tolbukhin (1894), Nikolai Yudenich (1862), Yermak Timofeyevich (1532), and Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1856).

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