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Stalin (Dzughashvili) Joseph Vissarionovich.Date of birth: December 16, 1878.Place of birth: Gori, Georgia.Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet troops during the War. Hero of the Soviet Union.

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Zhukov Georgy Konstantinovich.Date of birth: December 1, 1896.Place of birth: Strelkovo, Kaluga region.Twice Hero of the Soviet Union. Click the portrait to learn more.

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Rokossowsky Konstanty Konstantinovich.Date of birth: December 21, 1896.Place of birth: Velikie Luki, Pskov region.Twice Hero of the Soviet Union. Click the portrait to learn more.

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Vatutin Nikolay Fedorovich.Date of birth: December 16, 1901.Place of birth: Chepukhino, Voronezh region.Hero of the Soviet Union. Click the portrait to learn more.

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Eryomenko Andrey Ivanovich.Date of birth: October 14, 1892.Place of birth: Markovka, Voroshilovgrad (Lugansk) regionHero of the Soviet Union. Click the portrait to learn more.

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Konev Ivan Stepanovich.Date of birth: December 28, 1897.Place of birth: Lodeyno, Vologodsk regionTwice Hero of the Soviet Union. Click the portrait to learn more.

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Pokryshkin Alexander Ivanovich.Date of birth: March 6, 1913.Place of birth: NovosibirskThe-time Hero of the Soviet Union. Click the portrait to learn more.

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Kozhedub Ivan Nikitovich.Date of birth: June 8, 1920.Place of birth: Obrazhievka, Chernigov regionThe-time Hero of the Soviet Union. Click the portrait to learn more.

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He coordinated Operation Uranus (Stalingrad), Operation Iskra (the siege of Leningrad, 1943) and the Battle of Kursk (summer 1943).On January 18, 1943, Zhukov, the very first during the War, was awarded the title of Marshal of the Soviet Union. He accepted the complete surrender of Nazi Germany from German Field Marshal W. Von Keitel on May 8, 1945, in Berlin.

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With the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, Stalin concentrated all political and military power in his hands. He was directly involved in drawing up plans for military operations.During the war, Joseph Stalin, along with U.S. President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Churchill, initiated the creation of an anti-Hitler coalition. He represented the USSR in negotiations with the countries participating in the anti–Hitler coalition.

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Due to his collaboration with Zhukov and Vasilevsky in developing "Operation Bagration" the territories of Belarus, eastern Poland and part of the Baltic States were liberated from fascism. Rokossovsky was appointed as a commander of the Stalingrad Front. He also took part in developing Operation Uranus to destroy the enemy troops attacking Stalingrad.

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Andrey Ivanovich was a Soviet general during World War II and Marshal of the Soviet Union. During the war, Yeryomenko commanded the Southeastern Front (later renamed the Stalingrad Front) during the Battle of Stalingrad in summer 1942 and planned the successful defense of the city. During the Soviet Winter Counteroffensive, Yeryomenko's army was a part of the highly successful Toropets–Kholm Offensive helping to create the Rzhev Salient, which became a major battlefield over the next 15 months. Later he commanded the armies responsible for the liberation of Western Hungary and Eastern Czechoslovakia in 1945.

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Nikolai Fedorovich was appointed Chief of Staff of the Northwestern Front on June 30, 1941. Сhanging several posts, Lieutenant General Vatutin took command of the Voronezh Front in July 1942 and managed to stop the fascists, thereby depriving them of the possibility of transferring troops to Stalingrad and the Caucasus. Then Army General Vatutin took part in the defeat of German troops at Stalingrad, again headed the Voronezh (from October 20, 1943 – 1st Ukrainian) front, fought with the enemy during all the most important operations of the second and third stages of the Great Patriotic War.

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The beginning of the war Konev meets the commander of the 19th Army. The troops of the Kalinin Front, commanded by I.S. Konev, defeated the Germans near Moscow, liberated Kalinin and threw the enemy back 250 kilometers. Konev's troops also proved themselves at the Kursk Bulge. But the special talent of commander Konev was manifested during the Korsun-Shevchenko operation. It was this operation became known as "Stalingrad on the Dnieper", and as a result Konev became Marshal of the Soviet Union. No less bright achievements were victories in the Vistula-Oder, Berlin and Prague operations. For his brilliant victories, I.S. Konev was nicknamed "General Forward".

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Alexander Ivanovich received the first Gold Star on April 24, 1943, the second star he was awarded exactly four months later - on August 24 of the same year on the results of heavy and intense air battles over the Kuban, where he shot down 22 enemy planes. The third medal "Gold Star" Alexander Ivanovich was awarded for 53 downed enemy planes on August 19, 1944, becoming the first thrice Hero of the Soviet Union, and before the end of the war was still almost a year.At the first Victory Parade on June 24, 1945, Colonel Alexander Pokryshkin was the standard-bearer of the combined regiment of the 1st Ukrainian Front, commanded by Marshal Ivan Konev.

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He is one of the best pilots of the Soviet era. He went through the Great Patriotic War and was never shot down. During the War he made 330 combat sorties, conducted 120 air battles, personally shot down 62 enemy planes.The first enemy airplane - Junkers-87 - the future Marshal of Aviation shot down in 1943 at the Kursk Bulge. In August 1944 Ivan Kozhedub was appointed deputy commander of the 176th Guards Air Regiment, which was rearmed with new La-7 fighters. Kozhedub received an airplane with the flight number "27", on which he fought until the end of the war.