Rokossovsky Konstantin (09 (21) .12.1896 – 08.03.1968), Soviet general, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1944), twice Hero of the Soviet Union (29/07/1944 and 01/06/1945). Member of the CPSU since 1919.
He was born in the railway engineer. In the Army since 1914. Member of the 1 st World War II 1914 – 1918 – junior non-commissioned officer. In October 1917 joined the Red Guard, then the Red Army.
Bagramyan Bagramyan (20.11 (02.12) .1897 – 1982), Marshal of the Soviet Union (11/3/1955), Hero of the Soviet Union (29/7/1944).
Member of the CPSU since 1941. Born to a railway worker, an ethnic Armenian. Since 1915 in the Army, graduated from the school of ensigns (1917).
In December 1920, voluntarily joined the Red Army, member of the Civil War. He graduated from the cavalry officers' refresher courses (1925), refresher courses top bosses of the (1931), the Military Academy. Frunze (1934) and the General Staff Academy (1938).
Since September 1940 Operations Chief of Staff of Army and county.
Stroganoff, Count Alexander Grigorievich (1795 – 1891) – Adjutant General, State Council member. The education received in the body of Railways, after completing the course of which entered the Guards Artillery Brigade. In the ranks of troops, pursued the retreating from Russia by Napoleon, and participated in battles at Dresden, Kulm, Leipzig and was during the occupation of Paris in 1831, participated in the suppression of the Polish uprising. In 1834 S. was appointed deputy minister of internal affairs, what he stayed until 1836, when he received the post of governor-general of Chernigov, Poltava and Kharkiv, and from 1839 to 1841 managed by the Ministry of Interior. Member of the Council of State composed since 1849 After spending a year (1854) military governor of St. Petersburg, he then was about 9 years Novorossiysk and Bessarabia by the Governor General, When he was in Odessa S. interested in the activities of Gdańsk Society Russian History and Antiquities, was its president and has made many valuable contributions to his museum.
Maksimovskiy Michael S. (1830 – 01/18/1917) – General of Infantry, a former professor at the Imperial Military Academy and a member of the military council, a military writer, graduated from the university enrolled volnoopred. in Kexholm Grenadier Regiment (now the Life Guards), which in 1852 produced a non-commissioned officers. Then moved to Moscow drags. Regiment, which participated in the East War 1854 – 1855 years. At the end of 1857, the military academy he was appointed first associate professor and from 1861 Ordin. Professor of the Academy of Military Administration.
Yuri Gagarin (09/03/1934 – 03/27/1968). Born March 9, 1934 in Gzhatsk (now Gagarin) Gzhatsk (now Gagarin) district of Smolensk region in the family farmer. Father – Alexei Ivanovich Gagarin. Mother – Anna Timofeevna Gagarin. Marital status: wife – Valentina Gagarina (nee Goryachev).
Children: daughter, Helen (April 10, 1959) and Galina (7 March 1961). Education: 1951 – vocational school № 10 in Lyubertsy (Moscow region), specialty molder-leteyschika (Hons) in 1951 – a school for young workers in Lyubertsy (Moscow Region), 1955 – Saratov Industrial College (with honors) 1955 – the Saratov Flying Club; 1957 – First Chkalovsk Air Force Pilot School named Voroshilov in the city of Orenburg (first class) 1968 – Military-Engineering Academy N.E . Zhukovsky in Moscow (with honors). The service in the Soviet Army: Since 1955 – in the Soviet Army.
From 1957 to enroll in cosmonaut served as a fighter pilot in fighter aviation regiment of the Northern Fleet.
Sukhomlinov Vladimir Alexandrovich (04 (16) .08.1848 – 02.02.1926), Russian military figure, General of Cavalry (1906).
He graduated from the Nikolaev Cavalry School (1867) and the General Staff Academy (1874). Participated in the Russian-Turkish War 1877 – 1878, commanded a cavalry regiment and division, was the chief Officers Cavalry School (1886 – 1897).
From 1899 the chief of staff since 1902 and assistant commander in 1904 commander of the Kiev military district, and at the same time in 1905 in Kiev, Volhynia, and Podolia Governor-General. In December 1908 the chief of staff, and from March 1909 the Minister of War.
Sukhomlinov was a clever courtier and reactionary, which contributed to his career. If it were the military reforms of 1905 – 1912, but the army was unprepared for a long war. In June 1915 after defeats Russian forces at the front of the 1 st world war in 1914 – 1918 Sukhomlinov was removed from office, and in March 1916 was arrested on charges of misconduct and treason in connection with a conviction for espionage, some people close to him (S. Myasoedov A. Altshuller and others).
After a 6-month imprisonment placed under house arrest, after the February Revolution of 1917 he was arrested.
Konev, Ivan Stepanovich (16 (28) .12.1897 – 05.21.1973), Soviet military commander, Marshal of the Soviet Union (02/20/1944), twice Hero of the Soviet Union (29/07/1944 and 06/01/1945), Hero of Czechoslovakia (1970) and Hero of the MPR (1971). Member of the CPSU since 1918.
In 1916 he was drafted into the imperial army. In 1918, the county executive committee member of St. Nicholas (Vologda Province.) Military and county commissioner. In the Red Army in 1918. During the civil war of 1918-20 took part in battles against the forces of Kolchak, gangs Semenov and Japanese invaders in positions of military armored Commissioner, brigade, infantry division, the headquarters of the People's Revolutionary Army DDA and the Rifle Corps.
In 1921, as a delegate to the 10 th Congress of the F C (B), participated in the elimination of the Kronstadt rebellion. He graduated from the courses of higher command personnel at the Military Academy (1926).
Polivanov Michail (10/03/1801 – 22/01/1877) – Lieutenant-General for the Army infantry, was descended from the nobility of Kaluga province, was raised in a private hostel, 23rd January 1817 entered into sub-ensigns Borodino Regiment, 10 th October that same year he was promoted to a sub-commissioned officers, in 1819 – the rank of ensign, in 1820 – a second lieutenant, and the 26 th January 1822 – a lieutenant, and on April 19, was appointed an adjutant to Major General Kaisarova . Then, the 1 st January 1825 was promoted to VP captain, 29 th Sept. 1828 – Captain, and the next, in 1829, he was granted decorated diamond ring. In the Polish campaign in 1831 AP, clicking on January 20 with his regiment to the border with the Kingdom of Poland Suraż, 5 th and 6 th February in a battle for places. Kałuszyn and 13th – in a general engagement under Olszynka Grochowska and was awarded the Order of St. Vlady world 4-th century. with a bow, then was in reconnaissance from Siedlce to Minsk through the village Kuflevo, at the Battle of Ostrołęka, distinguished 25 th and 26 th August in the assault advanced fortifications mountains. Warsaw and it received the Order of Anna 2 nd century., 14 th January 1832 was transferred to a colonel in Belozero infantry regiment, but soon (28 April) is dismissed from service for domestic reasons. The following 1833, the 27 th of December, he again entered the service of a colonel in the commissariat staff, the 14 th April 1840 received the Order of Vladimir the 3rd century. In the same year (July 17), considered one of the commissariat Department, and the 14 th September 1843 was appointed manager of the Moscow commissariat commission, already 26-September was an expression of goodwill for the Imperial order, found at the highest inspection arsenal Moscow, on October 10 was made in P. major-general.
Blagonravov Anatoly Arkad'evich (20.05 (01.06) .1894), a Soviet scientist in the field of mechanics (Ballistics), academician of the USSR (1943), lieutenant-general of artillery, Hero of Socialist Labor (1964), Honored Scientist of RSFSR (1940).
Member of the CPSU from 1937. In 1916 he graduated from the Petrograd Polytechnical Institute, in the same year the Mikhailovsky Artillery School, in 1924 Higher Artillery School and in 1929 the Military Technical Academy.
In 1929-46 he taught at the Artillery Academy. Dzerzhinsky in Moscow (from 1938 – professor). In 1946 the deputy. Minister of Higher Education USSR.
From 1946 to 1950 president of the Academy of Artillery Sciences. Since 1953 Director of the Institute of Mechanical Engineering.
Sokolovsky, Vasily Danilovich (09 (21) .07.1897 – 05.10.1968), Soviet military leader, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1946), Hero of the Soviet Union (29/4/1945).
A member of the CPSU since 1931. Born to a poor peasant. Since 1918 the Red Army, participated in the Civil War as a commander of a company, regiment, brigade chief of staff Infantry Division.
He graduated from the Military Academy of Red Army (1921).