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Leonty Kuznetsov
Leonty Vasilyevich Kuznetsov (Russian: Леонтий Васильевич Кузнецов; born 13 August 1938) is a retired officer of the Soviet and later Russian Army who served as a Commander of the Moscow Military District from 1992 to 1999, having reached the rank of Colonel General in 1991. Biography Kuznetsov was born on 13 August 1938, in the city of Arkadak, Saratov Oblast. After studying at a vocational school, he worked as a turner at the in Saratov in 1961. He graduated from the in 1963, the Frunze Military Academy, and the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces named after K. E. Voroshilov. Kuznetsov served as a private in 1961, as a commander of a platoon, company, battalion, regiment, division, deputy commander and army commander. He was chief of staff of the Moscow Military District from May 1988 to 1990, then chief of staff of the Western Group of Forces from May 1990 to September 1991. He was Head of the Main Operational Directorate ...
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Arkadak
Arkadak () is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, town and the administrative center of Arkadaksky District in Saratov Oblast, Russia, located on the Bolshoy Arkadak River near its confluence with the Khopyor River, Khopyor, west of Saratov, the administrative center of the oblast. Population: History It was founded in 1721. Urban-type settlement status was granted to it in 1939; town status was granted in 1963. Administrative and municipal status Within the subdivisions of Russia#Administrative divisions, framework of administrative divisions, Arkadak serves as the administrative center of Arkadaksky District, to which it is directly subordinated.Law #78-ZSO stipulates that the borders of the administrative districts are identical to the borders of the municipal districts. The Law #109-ZSO, which describes the borders and the composition of Arkadaksky Municipal District, lists the town of Arkadak as a part of that municipal district. The Law #21-ZSO does not enumerate a ...
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Main Operational Directorate Of The General Staff Of The Russian Armed Forces
The Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces (; official abbreviation GOU GSh VS RF ) is the main body of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, whose tasks include planning military operations at various levels. Its role in the system of combat command and control of the Armed Forces is traditionally so great that it is often people from the GOU who occupy the post of Chief of the General Staff (Russia), Chief of the General Staff, as was the case, in particular, with Generals Anatoly Kvashnin and Yuri Baluyevsky. History The Operational Directorate of the General Staff was established on the basis of the 1st (Operations) Department in October 1939 and immediately became the leading working body of the General Staff. During the Eastern Front (World War II), Great Patriotic War, the Operations Directorate provided reliable leadership of the active fronts. Its structure changed ...
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People From Saratov Oblast
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, as i ...
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Russian Colonel Generals
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Soviet Colonel Generals
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet Union, it dissolved in 1991. During its existence, it was the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country by area, extending across Time in Russia, eleven time zones and sharing Geography of the Soviet Union#Borders and neighbors, borders with twelve countries, and the List of countries and dependencies by population, third-most populous country. An overall successor to the Russian Empire, it was nominally organized as a federal union of Republics of the Soviet Union, national republics, the largest and most populous of which was the Russian SFSR. In practice, Government of the Soviet Union, its government and Economy of the Soviet Union, economy were Soviet-type economic planning, highly centralized. As a one-party state go ...
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1938 Births
Events January * January 1 – state-owned enterprise, State-owned railway networks are created by merger, in France (SNCF) and the Netherlands (Nederlandse Spoorwegen – NS). * January 20 – King Farouk of Egypt marries Safinaz Zulficar, who becomes Farida of Egypt, Queen Farida, in Cairo. * January 27 – The Honeymoon Bridge (Niagara Falls), Honeymoon Bridge at Niagara Falls, New York, collapses as a result of an ice jam. February * February 4 ** Adolf Hitler abolishes the War Ministry and creates the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (High Command of the Armed Forces), giving him direct control of the German military. In addition, he dismisses political and military leaders considered unsympathetic to his philosophy or policies. General Werner von Fritsch is forced to resign as Commander of Chief of the German Army following accusations of homosexuality, and replaced by General Walther von Brauchitsch. Foreign Minister Baron Konstantin von Neurath is dismi ...
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Commonwealth Of Independent States
The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) is a regional organization, regional intergovernmental organization in Eurasia. It was formed following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. It covers an area of and has an estimated population of 246,200,194. The CIS encourages cooperation in economic, political, and military affairs and has certain powers relating to the coordination of trade, finance, lawmaking, and security, including cross-border crime prevention. As the Soviet Union disintegrated, Byelorussian SSR, Belarus, Russian SFSR, Russia, and Ukrainian SSR, Ukraine signed the Belovezha Accords on 8 December 1991, declaring that the Union had effectively ceased to exist and proclaimed the CIS in its place. On 21 December, the Alma-Ata Protocol was signed, but Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania chose not to participate. Georgia (country), Georgia withdrew its membership in 2008 following Russo-Georgian War, a war with Russia. Ukraine f ...
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