Kurasov, Vladimir Vasilyevich (06 (18) .07.1897), Soviet military commander, Army General (1948), the Hero of the Soviet Union (07/05/1964), Professor (1963).
Member of the CPSU since 1928. Born in a family servant. In 1918 the Soviet army, the Civil War 1918-20, chief of the detachment of seamen.
He graduated from the Military Pedagogical Inst (1921), the Military Academy. Frunze (1932), the Military Academy of the General Staff (1938). In 1921 – 40 in teaching and staff positions.
Liapidevskii Anatoly V. (10 (23) .03.1908), Soviet aircraft pilot and Hero of the Soviet Union (20/04/1934), Major General Aviation (1946).
A member of the Communist Party since 1934. In the Red Army in 1926, graduated from the Sevastopol School Marine Pilots (1928), was a pilot and instructor pilot.
In 1933 transferred to the reserve. Worked pilot of the Far Eastern Management GVF. After the death of an icebreaking ship Cheliuskin (2/13/1934) Liapidevskii participated in search and rescue Chelyuskinites and, in extremely difficult conditions, take them to Whelen. In 1935, again called into the army. He graduated from the Air Force Academy.
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.
Kondratyuk, Daniel F. (1896 – 1956) – Soviet military commander, Lieutenant General of Aviation (1943). Member of the Great Patriotic War from day one. He was deputy. Air Force commander of the North-Western Front, the commander of 2 var, Air Force Commander of the Western Front, 6 VA. Since January 1943 Head of training front-line aviation – deputy. Air Force Commander.
Eugene of Savoy (1663 – 1736), Prince karinyansky, Margrave of Saluzzo, Austria. generalissimo, the youngest son of Prince Maurice E. Savoy. Offended by Louis XIV's refusal to give him a regiment, he left France, he entered Volunteer in Austria. the army and during the invasion of Kara Mustafa (1683) of Vienna has acquired great fame.
Staal-von Holstein Ivan Karlovich (1799 – 11/10/1868) – Adjutant General, General of Cavalry, was educated at a private school. Military Service SA began in 1814, entering a cadet in the horse artillery; the first officer's rank, ensigns, made in 1816 In 1826, MS, has the rank of lieutenant, was appointed adjutant to the chief of artillery, 2-Army and shortly thereafter promoted to lieutenant. For participation in the Turkish War of 1828 – 1829 years. and for the differences rendered under Silistria, Kulevcha and Adrianople, he was awarded the Order of St. Anna 3 tbsp.
Apraxine Spiridonov (30/07/1702 – 26/08/1760) – son of the equerry, was born July 30, 1702.
He was brought up by his kinsman, gr. Petra Apraxin as Spiridonov a very young age lost his father.
By custom of the time, he joined the service of a soldier in the regiment of the Transfiguration and in the reign of Peter II was already a captain. Then he moved to the Semenov regiment, and received from the Empress Anna rank second major, was on the march under the command of Field Marshal Miniha – when taking Ochakov in 1737, for which was awarded the rank of Prime Minister Major and villages.
Then, in 1739 was promoted to major general and on September 10, which brought to St. Petersburg the news about taking Khotin was granted the Order of St.. Alexander Nevsky. In 1741, Spiridonov met on the border of the embassy Tahmas-Where will Hanna, consisting of 2,200 men too. Following the departure (in 1742) Embassy of Persia, Spiridonov was sent as ambassador to Persia, and then was general krigskomissarom, vice-president of the Military Collegium.
Jeanne d'Arc (1412 – 05/30/1431), or the Maid of Orleans, b.. in 1412 in the village. Domremy in Champagne, on the border of Lorraine (Her name – Darc; letter D was separated, with an apostrophe, and began to write d'Arc, probably after the award to her of the nobility). Her parents were hard working farmers. Influenced by the then unfortunate circumstances (the war with Britain and internal strife), the mood of the majority of the French peasantry was extremely religious.
One of the acknowledged king of France, King Henry VI, who supported the Burgundian party, the other – the Dauphin, as Charles VII, on the side of which was the party of Orleans. People wait for the salvation of France on a miracle went hand appeals to God, full of despair.
Vatutin Nikolai Fedorovich (1901 – 1944). A prominent Soviet military commander. During the Great Patriotic War, Chief of Staff of the North-Western Front, Deputy Chief of General Staff, since 1942 the commander of the Voronezh, Southwestern, and 1 of the First Ukrainian Front. In 1943 General of the Army. Hero of the Soviet Union (1965, posthumous).
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.
