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Born into a peasant family in the village of Serebryanye Prudy in the Tula region south of Moscow, Chuikov was the eighth of 12 children and the fifth of eight sons. At the age of 12, he left school and his family home to earn his living in a factory in Saint Petersburg, turning out spurs for cavalry officers. [1]
Vasily Chuikov Military unit The 8th Guards Order of Lenin Combined Arms Army (abbreviated 8th GCAA ) was an army of the Soviet Army , as a successor to the 62nd Army of the Soviet Union 's Red Army , which was formed during World War II and was disbanded in 1998 after being downsized into a corps.
From mid August 1942 until late January 1943, the 62nd Army, under the command of General Vasily Chuikov, fought in the Battle of Stalingrad. 62nd Army conducted an epic defense of the city against repeated and desperate attacks by the German 6th Army. The Army, along with the 64th Army, was operating under the Soviet Stalingrad Front.
The parade in Grodno was supervised by Kombrig Vasily Chuikov." [13] Another author, Alexander Nekrich, made a similar claim, taking some "photographs" as evidence: "The conclusion of military operations against Poland was marked by joint parades of German and Soviet militaries in Brest and Lwow in the first days of October [1939]." [14]
Appearing in exclusive interviews would be Russian Commanders like Georgi Zhukov and Vasily Chuikov. Other interviews shot for the series included Soviet general secretary Leonid Brezhnev and Averell Harriman , who was U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union during World War II.
Ivan Pereverzev as Vasily Chuikov. Roman Tkachuk as Alexei Yepishev. Anatoly Kuznetsov as Georgi Zakharov. Viktor Bortsov as Grigory Oriol. Yuri Leghkov as Ivan Konev (films I-II). Vasily Shukshin as Konev (films III-V). Mikhail Nozhkin as Yartsev; Yuri Kamorny as Vasiliev. Valery Nosik as Dorozhkin. Evgeny Burenkov as Aleksandr Vasilevsky.
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Vasily Chuikov (1900–1982) 1 April 1949: 26 May 1953: 4 years, 55 days: 4: Marshal of the Soviet Union Andrei Grechko (1903–1976) 27 May 1953: