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MILITARY PERSONNEL

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 248,697 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Vasily Sokolovsky is the 396th most popular military personnel (down from 346th in 2019), the 191st most popular biography from Poland (down from 166th in 2019) and the 18th 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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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Vasily Sokolovsky ranks 396 out of 1,468Before him are Leonid Govorov, Reinhard Scheer, Nicolas Chauvin, Ban Chao, Peter Townsend, and Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz. After him are Nikolai Kuznetsov, William Tecumseh Sherman, Roman Shukhevych, Honda Tadakatsu, Erasmo of Narni, and Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Vasily Sokolovsky ranks 46Before him are Plaek Phibunsongkhram, Vlado Chernozemski, Joseph Berchtold, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Gershom Scholem, and Leonid Govorov. After him are Emil Maurice, Herbert Gille, Dmitry Pavlov, Georg Wittig, Jiroemon Kimura, and John Cockcroft. Among people deceased in 1968, Vasily Sokolovsky ranks 33Before him are Kirill Meretskov, José Nasazzi, Giovanni Messe, Alexandre Kojève, Ivan Ribar, and Lucio Fontana. After him are Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, Alice Guy-Blaché, Romano Guardini, Josef Harpe, Vittorio Pozzo, and Fritz Bauer.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Vasily Sokolovsky ranks 191 out of 1,454Before him are Frederick I of Württemberg (1754), Mykhailo Hrushevsky (1866), John I Albert (1459), Felix Hausdorff (1868), William I of Württemberg (1781), and Jan Potocki (1761). After him are Julia, Princess of Battenberg (1825), Albert Marth (1828), Henryk Górecki (1933), Adam Jerzy Czartoryski (1770), Hans Lammers (1879), and Hermann Balck (1893).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Poland

Among military personnels born in Poland, Vasily Sokolovsky ranks 18Before him are Jan Henryk Dąbrowski (1755), Rochus Misch (1917), Otto Liman von Sanders (1855), Władysław Sikorski (1881), Hans-Jürgen von Arnim (1889), and Otto Kretschmer (1912). After him are Hermann Balck (1893), Otto von Below (1857), Nikolaus von Falkenhorst (1885), Alexander von Falkenhausen (1878), Eberhard von Mackensen (1889), and Rüdiger von der Goltz (1865).