G.I. Kulik
| Grigory Ivanovich Kulik | |
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| Born |
November 9, 1890 Dudnikovo, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) |
| Died | August 24, 1950 (aged 59) Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Buried | Donskoi Cemetery |
| Allegiance |
 Russian Empire (1912–1917) Soviet Union (1918–1946) |
| Years of service | 1912–1946 |
| Rank | Marshal of the Soviet Union |
| Commands held | Main Artillery Directorate |
| Battles/wars |
World War I Russian Civil War Polish–Soviet War Spanish Civil War Winter War World War II |
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Grigory Ivanovich Kulik (Russian: Григо́рий Ива́нович Кули́к) (9 November 1890 – 24 August 1950) was a Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union.
Kulik was born into a peasant family near Poltava in Ukraine. A soldier in the army of the Russian Empire in World War I, he joined the Bolshevik Party in 1917 and the Red Army in 1918. During the Russian Civil War he became a commander in the Soviet artillery at Tsaritsyn and other battles.
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