Awarded Order of Lenin (1945).
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Boris Shaposhnikov
Boris Mikhaylovich Shaposhnikov was a Soviet military officer, theoretician and Marshal of the Soviet Union. He served as the Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces from 1928 to 1931 and at the start of the Second World War. Shaposhnikov was one of the foremost military theorists during the Stalin-era. His most important work, Mozg Armii, is considered a landmark in Soviet military…
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politics · Soviet marshal (1882–1945) · politician · military personnel · also Boris Shaposhnikov, Boris Mikhailovitch Shaposhnikov, Boris Mikhaylovich Shaposhnikov, Shaposhnikov
Born 2 October 1882 · Died 26 March 1945 · Q48047
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1945· 2 entries
Died 1945-03-26.
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1944· 3 entries
Won Medal "For the Defence of Moscow" (1944).
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Awarded Order of the Red Banner (1944).
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Awarded Order of Suvorov, 1st class (1944).
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1942· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Lenin (1942).
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1941· 1 entry
Replacing Georgy Zhukov, but was again forced to resign a year later due to declining health
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1940· 1 entry
Was named a Marshal of the Soviet Union
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1939· 2 entries
Awarded Order of Lenin (1939).
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Stalin accepted Shaposhnikov's plan for a rapid buildup of the Red Army's strength
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1938· 2 entries
Awarded Order of the Red Star (1938).
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Won Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army" (1938).
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1937· 2 entries
Was appointed as Chief of the General Staff, in succession to Alexander Ilyich Yegorov, a defendant of the Case of Trotskyist Anti-Soviet Military Organization secret trial during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge of the Re
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Was appointed to the newly created title of Chief of the General Staff
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1934· 1 entry
Awarded Order of the Red Star (1934).
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1932· 1 entry
Was appointed commandant of the Red Army's Frunze Military Academy, then in 1935 he returned to the command of the Leningrad region
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1925· 1 entry
And then of the Moscow Military District in 1927
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1921· 2 entries
Awarded Order of the Red Banner (1921).
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Became 1st Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army's General Staff, where he served until 1925
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1917· 1 entry
Unusually for an officer of his rank, he supported the Russian Revolution, and in May 1918 joined the Red Army
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1916· 2 entries
Awarded Order of Saint Stanislaus (House of Romanov) (1916).
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Awarded Order of St. Anna 2nd class with swords (1916).
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1915· 2 entries
Awarded Order of Saint Stanislaus, 2nd class with swords (1915).
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Awarded Order of St. Anne 3rd class with swords and bow (1915).
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1914· 2 entries
Awarded Order of Saint Anna, 4th class (1914).
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Awarded Order of Saint Vladimir 4th class with swords and bow (1914).
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1901· 1 entry
As an officer cadet, and graduated from the Nicholas General Staff Academy in 1910, reaching the rank of colonel in the Caucasus Grenadiers division in September 1917 during World War I
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1882· 1 entry
Born 1882-10-02.
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