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Vasily Chuikov

Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov
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Lieutenant General Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov
(prior to 1943)
Native name Василий Иванович Чуйков
Nickname(s) "The Man of Iron Will"
"The Stone"
Born 12 February 1900
Serebryanye Prudy, Tula Governorate, Russian Empire
Died 18 March 1982(1982-03-18) (aged 82)
Moscow, Soviet Union
Place of burial Mamayev Kurgan, Volgograd, Russia
Allegiance  Soviet Union
Years of service 1917–72
Rank Marshal of the Soviet Union
Commands held 4th Army
62nd Army
8th Guards Army
Group of Soviet Forces in Germany
Kiev Military District
Battles/wars

Russian Civil War
World War II


Winter War
Second Sino-Japanese War
Awards

Hero of the Soviet Union Hero of the Soviet Union Order of Lenin (9)

Other work 1961 until his death, he was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Russian Civil War
World War II

Hero of the Soviet Union Hero of the Soviet Union Order of Lenin (9)

Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov (Russian: Васи́лий Ива́нович Чуйко́в; 12 February 1900 – 18 March 1982) was a Soviet lieutenant general in the Red Army during World War II, commander of the 62nd Army during the Battle of Stalingrad, twice Hero of the Soviet Union (1944, 1945), and after the war a Marshal of the Soviet Union.

Born into a peasant family in the village of Serebryanye Prudy in the Tula region south of Moscow, he was the eighth of twelve children and the fifth of eight sons. At the age of twelve, he left school and his family home to earn his living in a factory in St. Petersburg, turning out spurs for cavalry officers. Chuikov and all his brothers became soldiers and fought in the Russian Civil War.


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