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unusual facts about Marshal of the Soviet Union



10th Guards Uralsko-Lvovskaya Tank Division

Its complete formal designation is: "The 10th Guards Tank Ural-L'vov the Order of October Revolution Red Banner, the Order of Suvorov and the Order of Kutuzov Volunteer division in the name of Marshal of the Soviet Union Rodion Malinovsky".

Generalissimus of the Soviet Union

However, according to Stalin biographer Robert Service, Stalin regretted allowing himself the ostentatious military title, and asked Winston Churchill to continue to refer to him as a marshal instead.


see also

4 Days in May

The author, telling the story of Marshal of the Soviet Union, K. Moskalenko, described the reported case of Nazi troops coming to the aid of Soviet reconnaissance.

Alexei Yegorov

Alexander Ilyich Yegorov (1883-1939), Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union

Baghramyan, Ararat

It is named after the Soviet Armenian military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union Hovhannes Baghramyan.

Grechko

Andrei Grechko, a Soviet general, Marshal of the Soviet Union, Minister of Defense

Military academies in Russia

First established in 1827 as the Advance Officers' Class of the Imperial Russian Navy and later the Nikolayev Naval Academy and reorganized as the Petrograd Maritime Academy in 1917, and at various times renamed as the WPRF Naval Academy, the Marshal of the Soviet Union Kliment Voroshilov Naval Academy and the Marshal of the Soviet Union Andrey Grechko Naval Academy, it gained its current name and title in 1990.