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Vasily Sokolovsky

1897 - 1968

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Vasily Danilovich Sokolovsky (Russian: Васи́лий Дани́лович Соколо́вский; July 21, 1897 – May 10, 1968) was a Soviet general, military theorist, Marshal of the Soviet Union, and a commander of Red Army forces during World War II. As Georgy Zhukov's chief of staff, Sokolovsky helped plan and execute the Battle of Berlin. He also served as head of the Soviet Forces in East Germany and the Soviet Chief of the General Staff. Born to a Belarusian peasant family in Grodno in the Russian Empire, Sokolovsky joined the Red Army in 1918 and served with distinction in Central Asia during the Russian Civil War. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vasily Sokolovsky has received more than 277,887 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Vasily Sokolovsky is the 390th most popular military personnel (up from 396th in 2019), the 203rd most popular biography from Poland (down from 191st in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Polish Military Personnel.

Vasily Sokolovsky is most famous for his video showing him playing Pokemon Go in a church in Yekaterinburg, Russia.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Vasily Sokolovsky ranks 390 out of 2,058. Before him are John Franklin, Otto von Below, Lazare Hoche, Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, David Elazar, and Jan Karol Chodkiewicz. After him are Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli, Bronislav Kaminski, Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, Gan Ning, Li Mu, and Sanada Yukimura.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Vasily Sokolovsky ranks 50. Before him are John Franklin Enders, Leonid Govorov, Gershom Scholem, John Cockcroft, Margaret Mahler, and Emil Maurice. After him are Ye Jianying, Herbert Gille, Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood, Einar Gerhardsen, and Douglas Sirk. Among people deceased in 1968, Vasily Sokolovsky ranks 35. Before him are Alice Guy-Blaché, Kirill Meretskov, Alexandre Kojève, Giovanni Messe, Vittorio Pozzo, and Nikolaus von Falkenhorst. After him are Lucio Fontana, Romano Guardini, Arnold Zweig, Charles Chaplin Jr., Josef Harpe, and Hans-Jürgen Stumpff.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Vasily Sokolovsky ranks 203 out of 1,694. Before him are Alice Miller (1923), Otto von Below (1857), Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788), Frederick I of Württemberg (1754), Cymburgis of Masovia (1394), and Nikolaus von Falkenhorst (1885). After him are Henry II the Pious (1196), B. Traven (1882), Józef Gosławski (1908), Paul Tillich (1886), Heinrich Rickert (1863), and Henryk Górecki (1933).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Poland

Among military personnels born in Poland, Vasily Sokolovsky ranks 22. Before him are Rochus Misch (1917), Hermann Balck (1893), Hans-Jürgen von Arnim (1889), Otto Kretschmer (1912), Otto von Below (1857), and Nikolaus von Falkenhorst (1885). After him are Elisabeth Volkenrath (1919), Erich Fellgiebel (1886), Hans-Jürgen Stumpff (1889), Rüdiger von der Goltz (1865), Alexander von Falkenhausen (1878), and Heinz Reinefarth (1903).

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