MILITARY PERSONNEL

Viktor Kulikov

1921 - 2013

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Viktor Georgiyevich Kulikov (‹See Tfd›Russian: Виктор Георгиевич Куликов; 5 July 1921 – 28 May 2013) was the Warsaw Pact commander-in-chief from 1977 to 1989. He was awarded the rank of the Marshal of the Soviet Union on 14 January 1977. Kulikov was born into a peasant family and joined the Red Army in 1939. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Viktor Kulikov has received more than 134,959 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Viktor Kulikov is the 440th most popular military personnel (down from 413th in 2019), the 372nd most popular biography from Russia (down from 359th in 2019) and the 36th most popular Russian Military Personnel.

Viktor Kulikov is most famous for being the first person to ever survive a direct hit from a nuclear bomb.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Viktor Kulikov ranks 440 out of 2,058Before him are Mikhail Kirponos, Osman Nuri Pasha, Zinovy Rozhestvensky, Pavel Nakhimov, Horatius Cocles, and Petre Dumitrescu. After him are Yoshiko Kawashima, Erich Kempka, Muqali, Vjekoslav Luburić, Jan Pieterszoon Coen, and Armando Diaz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Viktor Kulikov ranks 61Before him are Harald Quandt, Zdeněk Miler, Alexandra of Yugoslavia, Louis Jourdan, Giuseppe Di Stefano, and Franco Corelli. After him are Zizinho, György Cziffra, Mario Lanza, Miklós Jancsó, Farida of Egypt, and Paul Watzlawick. Among people deceased in 2013, Viktor Kulikov ranks 52Before him are John Cornforth, James M. Buchanan, Nagisa Oshima, Richard Matheson, Ed Lauter, and Chinua Achebe. After him are Manfred Rommel, Ovadia Yosef, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Gyula Horn, Ronald Dworkin, and Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Viktor Kulikov ranks 372 out of 3,761Before him are Duchess Anna of Prussia (1576), Fyodor Tyutchev (1803), Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov (1883), Rinat Dasayev (1957), Zinovy Rozhestvensky (1848), and Pavel Nakhimov (1802). After him are Henri Troyat (1911), Ferdinand von Wrangel (1797), Eduard Khil (1934), Aleksandr Lyapunov (1857), Chung Il-kwon (1917), and Aleksandr Karelin (1967).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Russia

Among military personnels born in Russia, Viktor Kulikov ranks 36Before him are Alexander Yegorov (1883), Leonid Govorov (1897), Vasily Arkhipov (1926), Nikolai Kuznetsov (1904), Zinovy Rozhestvensky (1848), and Pavel Nakhimov (1802). After him are Fyodor Ushakov (1745), Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov (1737), Dmitry Pavlov (1897), Dmitry Utkin (1970), Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov (1787), and Dmitry Pozharsky (1577).