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Hennadii Shapovalov
Hennadii Mykolayovych Shapovalov (; born in 1978) is a Ukrainian Ground Forces brigadier general who is the Commander of the Ukrainian Ground Forces from 19 June 2025. He served as the commander of the Operational Command South from 16 April 2024 to 4 February 2025. Biography Hennadii Shapovalov was born in Kirovohrad Oblast in 1978. In 2000, he graduated from the Institute of Tank Troops of the Kharkiv State Polytechnic University. In 2012, he graduated from the Command and Staff Institute of the Use of Troops (Forces) of the National Defense University of Ukraine, and National University of Ostroh Academy majoring in "International Relations, Public Communications and Regional Studies" (both with honors), as well as the US Army War College. He went through all levels of military service, from the commander of a tank platoon to the commander of the 59th Separate Motorized Infantry Brigade named after Yakiv Handziuk. In 2022, he was the head of the Main Department of Mili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirovohrad Oblast
Kirovohrad Oblast (), also known as Kirovohradshchyna (), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (''province'') in central Ukraine. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Kropyvnytskyi. The oblast's population is It is Ukraine's second least populated oblast, ahead of Chernivtsi Oblast, Chernivtsi. In 2019, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine approved the change of the oblast's name to Kropyvnytskyi Oblast (, unofficially ''Kropyvnychchyna'' ()). The change is not yet implemented. The largest cities of the region are Kropyvnytskyi, Oleksandriia, Znamianka, Kirovohrad Oblast, Znamianka and Svitlovodsk. Geography The area of the province is . The city of Dobrovelychkivka is the geographical center of Ukraine. Most of the region is located within historic Right-bank Ukraine and Zaporizhzhia (region), Zaporizhzhia, and the western outskirts are part of historic Podolia. History The lands of the modern Kirovohrad Oblast were first inhabited by Scythians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1978 Births
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Wiesbaden
Wiesbaden (; ) is the capital of the German state of Hesse, and the second-largest Hessian city after Frankfurt am Main. With around 283,000 inhabitants, it is List of cities in Germany by population, Germany's 24th-largest city. Wiesbaden forms a conurbation with a population of around 500,000 with the neighbouring city of Mainz. This conurbation is in turn embedded in the Rhine-Main, Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region—Germany's second-largest metropolitan region after Rhine-Ruhr—which also includes the nearby cities of Frankfurt am Main, Darmstadt, Offenbach am Main, and Hanau, and has a combined population exceeding 5.8 million. The city is located on the Rhine (Upper Rhine), at the foothills of the Taunus, opposite the Rhineland-Palatine capital of Mainz, and the city centre is located in the wide valley of the small Salzbach (Wiesbaden), Salzbach stream. Wiesbaden lies in the Rheingau (wine region), Rheingau wine-growing region, one of Germany's List of German wine regions, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy (born 25 January 1978) is a Ukrainian politician and former entertainer who has served as the sixth and current president of Ukraine since 2019. He took office five years after the start of the Russo-Ukrainian War with Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, Russia's annexation of Crimea and War in Donbas, invasion of the Donbas, and has continued to serve during the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, which has been ongoing since February 2022. Zelenskyy grew up as a native Russian language in Ukraine, Russian speaker in Kryvyi Rih, a major city of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast in central Ukraine. He obtained a degree in law from the Kryvyi Rih Institute of Economics, but never practised law and pursued a career in comedy and entertainment. He co-created the production company Kvartal 95, which produced films, cartoons, and TV shows including the TV series ''Servant of the People (2015 TV series), Servant of the People'', in which Zelens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yakiv Handziuk
Yakiv is a Ukrainian masculine given name, cognate to Jacob or James. Notable people with the name include: *Yakiv Barabash (died 1658), Zaporozhian Cossack Otaman (1657–58) who opposed Hetman Ivan Vyhovsky *Yakiv Hodorozha (born 1993), Ukrainian former competitive figure skater *Yakiv Holovatsky (1814–1888), Galician historian, literary scholar, ethnographer, linguist, poet, leader of Galician Russophiles *Yakiv Hordiyenko (1925–1942), Soviet partisan from Ukraine *Yakiv Khammo (born 1994), Assyrian-Ukrainian judoka *Yakiv Kripak (born 1978), former Ukrainian football midfielder *Yakiv Kulik (1793–1863), Austrian mathematician known for his construction of a massive factor tables *Yakiv Lyzohub, military and political figure of the Cossack Hetmanate *Yakiv Medvetskyi (1880–1941), Greek Catholic hierarch *Yakiv Punkin (1921–1994), featherweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Ukraine *Yakiv Smolii (born 1961), Ukrainian economist and banker, former Chairman of the National Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
59th Motorized Brigade (Ukraine)
The 59th Separate Assault Brigade () is a formation of the Unmanned Systems Forces formed in 2014 as part of the Ukrainian Ground Forces. The brigade was activated on 8 December 2014 in the city of Haisyn in Vinnytsia Oblast and took command of three volunteer territorial defense battalions. On 24 August 2015, Ukraine's Independence Day, the brigade received its flag and became fully operational. The brigade fought in the war in Donbas and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. History On 8 December 2016, the commander of Operational Command South named the 59th Brigade the best Ukrainian motorized brigade according to a 2015 summary. On 20 January 2018, the brigade's units returned to garrison in Haisyn from the frontlines. They had been deployed in the combat zone in Donbas in the Pryazovia region since May 2017. Russian invasion of Ukraine The main units of the 59th Brigade were deployed to a camp in the Oleshky Sands at the onset of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Vastly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
US Army War College
The United States Army War College (USAWC) is a U.S. Army staff college in Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, with a Carlisle postal address, on the 500-acre (2 km2) campus of the historic Carlisle Barracks. It provides graduate-level instruction to senior military officers, government officials, and civilians to prepare them for senior leadership assignments and responsibilities. Each year, a number of Army colonels and lieutenant colonels are considered by a board for admission. Approximately 800 students attend at any one time, half in a two-year-long distance learning program, and the other half in an on-campus, full-time resident program lasting ten months. Upon completion, the college grants its graduates a master's degree in Strategic Studies. The Army War College is a split-functional institution. Emphasis is placed on research and students are also instructed in leadership, strategy, and joint-service/international operations. It is one of the senior service colle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Defense University Of Ukraine
The National Defence University of Ukraine (NDUU) () is a university of higher military education in Ukraine, located in its capital city of Kyiv. Subordinated to the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine, the University trains officers specializing in national defence. The University was founded in 1992 as the Academy of Ukrainian Armed Forces and later Academy of Defence. History Origins Imperial era It traces some of its heritage to the Second Kyiv Military Infantry and Nikolaevskoe Artillery schools () that were opened in Kyiv during World War I in 1914. The Kyiv Nikolaevskoe Artillery School was established in the building that today belongs to the Higher Specialized Court of Ukraine (on criminal and civil issues). Soviet era With the 1919 Soviet invasion of Ukraine (see Ukrainian–Soviet War), the school was transformed into the Kyiv Artillery courses, while the Infantry School was named after the Workers of Red Zamoskvorechye. In May–July 1920 the artillery course ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Commander Of The Ukrainian Ground Forces
The commander of the Ukrainian Ground Forces () is the professional head of the Ukrainian Ground Forces. In 2001–2005 it was known as commander-in-chief (). While the chief of ground forces post had been created in early 1992, it was over two years before the first holder, Colonel General Vasyl Sobkov, was appointed on 7 April 1994.Jane's Sentinel: Ukraine, 1994. List of commanders {, class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" , - ! rowspan=2, ! rowspan=2, Portrait ! rowspan=2, Name ! colspan=3, Term of office ! rowspan=2, , - ! Took office ! Left office ! Time in office , -style="text-align:center;" ! colspan=7, Commander , -style="text-align:center;" ! colspan=7, Commander-in-Chief , -style="text-align:center;" ! colspan=7, Commander See also * Commander of the Navy (Ukraine) * Commander of the Air Force (Ukraine) * Commander of the Air Defence Forces (Ukraine) * Commander of the Air Assault Forces (Ukraine) * Commander of the Marin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukrainian Ground Forces
The Ukrainian Ground Forces (SVZSU, ), also referred to as the Ukrainian army, is a land force, and one of the eight Military branch, branches of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It was formed from Ukrainian units of the Soviet Army after Declaration of Independence of Ukraine, Ukrainian independence, and its ancestry is traced back to the 1917–22 army of the Ukrainian People's Republic. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Ukraine retained its Soviet-era army equipment. The Armed Forces were systematically downsized and underinvested in after 1991. As a result, the Ukrainian army had very little of its Soviet equipment in working order by July 2014, and most systems had become antiquated. Personnel numbers had shrunk and training, command, and support functions needed improvement.In the Army Now: Answering Many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
