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 man 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 117,533 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Yakov Smushkevich is the 1,611th most popular military personnel (down from 1,360th in 2019), the 110th most popular biography from Lithuania (down from 100th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Lithuanian Military Personnel.

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  • 2.75

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Yakov Smushkevich ranks 1,611 out of 2,058. Before him are Arrhidaeus, Somnath Sharma, Carlos Hathcock, Friedrich Sixt von Armin, Hans Felber, and Werner Teske. After him are Polina Gelman, Vladimir Triandafillov, Michał Gedeon Radziwiłł, Koos de la Rey, José de Palafox y Melci, 1st Duke of Zaragoza, and Andreas Miaoulis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Yakov Smushkevich ranks 199. Before him are Ida Siekmann, David Arellano, Juan José Tramutola, George Kingsley Zipf, Veniamin Kaverin, and Albert Namatjira. After him are José Miró Cardona, Kim Sowol, Yevgeny Petrov, Dirk Brouwer, Panagiotis Kanellopoulos, and Strom Thurmond. Among people deceased in 1941, Yakov Smushkevich ranks 137. Before him are Otto Strandman, Pavel Filonov, Fritz Manteuffel, Diederik Korteweg, Louis Brandeis, and Hamilton Harty. After him are Georgette Leblanc, Jin Shuren, Franciszek Kleeberg, Karl Neukirch, Chris Watson, and Paul von Hintze.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Yakov Smushkevich ranks 110 out of 328. Before him are Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė (1963), Virgilijus Alekna (1972), Meir Vilner (1918), Yehuda Pen (1854), Modestas Paulauskas (1945), and Laurynas Gucevičius (1753). After him are Irena Veisaitė (1928), Stanisław Witkiewicz (1851), Sigitas Tamkevičius (1938), Mark Antokolsky (1843), Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas (1880), and Iosif Grigulevich (1913).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Lithuania

Among military personnels born in Lithuania, Yakov Smushkevich ranks 7. Before him are Jan Karol Chodkiewicz (1560), Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg (1913), Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz (1883), Iosif Igelström (1737), Maciej Sulkiewicz (1865), and Ieronim Uborevich (1896). After him are Silvestras Žukauskas (1860).

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