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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Yakov Smushkevich

1902 - 1941

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Yakov Vladimirovich Smushkevich (Lithuanian: Jakovas Smuškevičius, Russian: Яков Владимирович Смушкевич, also Яков Вульфович Смушкевич,; 14 April [O.S. 1 April] 1902 – 28 October 1941) was the Commander of the Soviet Air Forces from 1939 to 1940 and the first Jewish Hero of the Soviet Union. Arrested shortly before the start of Operation Barbarossa on falsified charges of being part of an anti-Soviet conspiracy, he became the only person to receive the Hero of the Soviet Union twice and then be executed. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yakov Smushkevich has received more than 107,781 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Yakov Smushkevich is the 1,361st most popular military personnel (down from 1,307th in 2019), the 102nd most popular biography from Lithuania (up from 107th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Lithuanian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Yakov Smushkevich ranks 1,361 out of 1,468. Before him are Nikolaos Trikoupis, Arabo, Raúl Reyes, Sudirman, Curt Haase, and Józef Chłopicki. After him are Hermann Boehm, James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, John Burgoyne, Pavel Kurochkin, Tommy Franks, and William D. Leahy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Yakov Smushkevich ranks 184. Before him are George Kingsley Zipf, Son House, Ilmari Salminen, André Patry, Georgette Heyer, and Yevgeny Petrov. After him are Beryl Markham, Flora Robson, Henry Hansen, Veniamin Kaverin, Juan José Tramutola, and Kajirō Yamamoto. Among people deceased in 1941, Yakov Smushkevich ranks 120. Before him are Pavel Filonov, Ernst, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen, Wilhelm Kienzl, Rudolf Ramek, Štefan Banič, and George Abraham Grierson. After him are Dimitrios Golemis, Franciszek Kleeberg, Karl Neukirch, Fritz Manteuffel, Dmitry Lavrinenko, and Alfred Pringsheim.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Yakov Smushkevich ranks 102 out of 287. Before him are Phoebus Levene (1869), Šarūnas Jasikevičius (1976), Morta (1210), Maximilian Steinberg (1883), Mark Antokolsky (1843), and Jacques Sernas (1925). After him are Algirdas Butkevičius (1958), Žemaitė (1845), Donald Kagan (1932), Antanas Baranauskas (1835), Justinas Marcinkevičius (1930), and Władysław Kozakiewicz (1953).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Lithuania

Among military personnels born in Lithuania, Yakov Smushkevich ranks 5. Before him are Jan Karol Chodkiewicz (1560), Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz (1883), Ieronim Uborevich (1896), and Maciej Sulkiewicz (1865).

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