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  Vasily Chuikov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov (Васи́лий Ива́нович Чуйко́в) (February 12, 1900 - March 18, 1982) was a lieutenant general in the Soviet Red Army during World War II, two times Hero of the Soviet Union (1944, 1945), who after the war became a Marshal of the Soviet Union.
Chuikov served in the Soviet occupation of eastern Poland in 1939 and in the Russo-Finnish War of 1940.
After the war ended Chuikov stayed in Germany, later serving as Commander-in-Chief of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany from 1949 until 1953, when he was made the Commander of the Kiev military district.
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 The Voice of Russia (The Stalingrad battle - 60 years)
Chuikov was concerned about the army’s morale since he managed to intercept a truck officers had stolen to flee rearwards.
Chuikov, one of the most talented young generals, was born into an ordinary peasant family of purely Russian origin, in the Serebryanie Prudi village, in the southernmost center of the Moscow region.
Vasily Chuikov reminiscences that his father had spitfire temper – got angry immediately and the main thing was not to steam him more at that moment.
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 Battle of Stalingrad
In the local level, General Vasily Chuikov, the deputy commander of the 64th army South of Stalingrad, and an aggressive and determined commander, was called to the regional command post.
When General Chuikov came to Stalingrad, the 62nd army already lost half of its troops, and it was clear to its soldiers that it became a death trap, and many tried to escape across the Volga.
General Vasily Chuikov led his men until the end of the war, and because of their experience in "the Stalingrad street fighting academy", they led the Russian army into Berlin in 1945, and Chuikov personally received Berlin's surrender in May 1, 1945.
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 Battle of Stalingrad
Chuikov refused to meet the Germans outside the city, and had instead set up a huge number of strongpoints in the houses and factories inside.
The strain on both commanders was immense, von Paulus developed an uncontrollable tic in his eye, and Chuikov was experiencing an outbreak of eczema that required him to bandage his hands completely.
He became increasingly convinced that the battle in the city represented the end of the war itself, and the ability to claim that they had captured "Stalin's City" was a victory worth more than the original battle plan.
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 Military History Online - Battle of Stalingrad
Born of Russian peasants in 1900, Chuikov was a mechanic's apprentice from the age of 12, worked at various odd jobs, such as a bell-hop, and joined the Red Army in 1918.
Chuikov would distinguish himself as a soldier there, and within a year, found himself with a field commission, a member of the Communist party, and commander of a regiment in the Red Army.
Chuikov served in the Polish Campaign of 1939, when the Red Army moved into Eastern Poland, in accordance with the secret protocols of the German-Soviet pact.
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 chuikov
With the ground and conditions favouring the Fins, Chuikov with his command post too far to the rear and suffering from a breakdown in communications, lost control of the battle.
On the 12th of September Chuikov was appointed commander of 62nd Army by Khrushchev, at his HQ in Yamy.
However casualties were high and Chuikov later commented that 'every stone, the brick rubble, the asphalt pavements of the squares and streets of the German capital were stained with his mens blood.
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 THE NEWS BLOG
Chuikov's troops could turn their relative lack of equipment to their advantage by staying on the move at all times, attacking from unexpected angles and denying German guns stationary targets.
Chuikov dispensed with conventional notions of platoons and companies, creating a unit called a "shock group." One shock group included three sub-units: a storm group, a reinforcement group, and a reserve group, in a structure intended to take advantage of the tactics already described.
Chuikov was also on the scene as the Soviets blasted their way into Berlin in the early spring of 1945, and veterans of the Battle of Stalingrad were instrumental in taking the German capital.
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 Electronic Encyclopaedia of Civil Defense and Emergency Management   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Marshal of the Soviet Union Vasily I. Chuikov served as chief of the civil defense of the Soviet Union from 1964-1972.
Marshal Chuikov was born in 1900 in the village of Serebranye, near Moscow, and joined the Red Army in 1918.
During World War II Chuikov distinguished himself as commander of the 62nd Army during the defense of Stalingrad, and as commander of the 8th Guards Army in the Soviet advance, culminating in the capture of Berlin.
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 Engaged in confilct   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
By the time Chuikov arrived in Stalingrad, half of the soldiers in the Russian 62nd Division had been killed.
Chuikov had to act fast to change the horrible situation.
Chuikov narrowed the space between the Russians and the enemy, so the enemy artillery could not be used against the Russians without risking their own troops.
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 Vasily Chuikov information - Search.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Vasily Chuikov during World War II Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov (Васи́лий Ива́нович Чуйко́в) (February 12, 1900 - March 18, 1982) was a lieutenant general in the Soviet Red Army during World War II, two times Hero of the Soviet Union (1944, 1945), who after the war became a Marshal of the Soviet Union.
In May 1942 he was recalled to take up command of the 62nd Army at the Battle of Stalingrad, for its actions there 62nd Army promoted into the 8th Guards Army after the Red Army's victory at Stalingrad.
Chuikov then commanded the 8th Guards on the Byelorussian front and led its advance through Poland, finally heading the Soviet offensive which captured Berlin in April 1945.
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 Brujula.Net - Your Latin Stating Point   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Vasily Chuikov was to defend the city at all costs.
Vasily Grigoryevich Zaitsev being cred with 149 kills during the battle).
The strain on both military commanders was immense: Paulus developed an uncontrollable tic in his eye, while Chuikov experienced an outbreak of eczema that required him to bandage his hands completely.
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 !! ENEMY AT THE GATES !! The dual between KOENIG and ZAITSEV
As to the duel, Chuikov writes that the name of the "super sniper" and the information about his origin were given to them by a German prisoner.
It's clear from his memoir that Chuikov thought highly of Zaitzev, that the "sniper movement" wasn't an invention of a propaganda mechanism and that Chuikov himself felt that the sniper movement's publicity hampered it operationally, while being important for troop morale.
As to the "Duel", Chuikov quotes a report obviously given in the first person by Zaitzev, who refers to the sniper not as Major this or that but simply as "the sniper from Berlin" or "the Nazi super-sniper".
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 World War 2 - 1942 The Axis peaks.
The Operation eventually was launched on June 28th and pushed the Soviets rapidly back, by the end of July, Hoth and Paulus were within a few miles of Stalingrad, and Manstein and Kleist had pushed as far south and east into the Caucasus as their supply lines would allow.
The Soviet General Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov took command of the defense of the city and pulled all available troops in the area back for its defense.
The Germans reduced much of the city to rubble with a massive air bombardment on August 23rd and had pushed up to the Volga in the north and south by the 1st of September essentially surrounding the city except for the eastern border with the river which became the only supply route for the Soviets.
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 Brad DeLong's Website: From Dean Acheson
Chuikov took a solemn appraising look and began to drink them, before I realized his mistaken assumption of a challenge.
General Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov was an utter bastard: he shot five times as many of his own men for desertion during the Battle of Stalingrad as allied soldiers died on D-Day.
General Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov was a very good general: we all should be very grateful for what his 62nd Army did during the Battle of Stalingrad.
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 Eastern Front Major Operations
Even the Russian commander at Stalingrad, Marshal Vasily Chuikov, had no idea of the powerful attack the Russians were about to unleash.
Under Zhukov's command, Marshal Vasily Chuikov, commander and hero of the defence at Stalingrad, led his 8th Guards forward and by April 20th had reached the Berlin suburbs, which they set about clearing block by block.
The two forces raced to the Landwehr Canal, jumping off point for the assault on the Reichstag building, but Chuikov's forces were in position first, and so a disappointed Konev called his units west to clear the rest of the city.
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 The Battle of Stalingrad
Wehrmacht met the toughest resistance in those ruins, and Stalingrad came into the history of WWII as one of the worst experiences for the German army.
General Chuikov, the commander of Soviet 62nd Army, threw in every last reserve.
To neutralize it, general Chuikov directed his troops to "hug" the Germans, to remain in a close combat so that German commanders could not use air strikes without endangering their own men.
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 Amazon.com: "Vasily Zaitsev": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Vasily Chuikov, one of the celebrated Russian commanders at the Battle of Stalingrad, examines a rifle belonging to ace sniper Vasily Zaitsev (right).
Vasily Grigoryevich Zaitsev The most famous Soviet sniper of the Great Patriotic War was Vasily Zaitsev,...
It was in those days that Vasily Zaitsev, one of Stalingrad's most famous snipers, coined the phrase: "There is no land for us on the other bank.
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 CHUIKOV   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Akoulitchev, S.; Chuikov, S.; Reinberg, D.: TFIIH is negatively regulated by cdk8-containing mediator complexes.
Chuikov was tasked with the defence of Stalingrad.
Chuikov recognized the need to neutralize the Wehrmacht's superiority in armor and air support, and in Stalingrad, he recognized that the
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 radio free narnia
As Blanter didn’t have a uniform, he was made to hide in a cupboard and keep quiet.
Krebs informed Chuikov that Hitler and his wife had killed themsleves in his bunker.
Chuikov, who wasn’t even aware that there was a bunker under the Reich Chancellory or that Hitler was married, calmly said that he always knew.
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 Battle of Stalingrad information - Search.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The most successful sniper was only identified as "Zikan", being credited with 224 kills by November 20, 1942.
Vasily Grigoryevich Zaitsev was credited with 149 kills during the battle.
For both Stalin and Hitler, the battle of Stalingrad became a prestige issue, on top of the actual strategic significance of the battle.
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 Battle of Stalingrad - WarWiki - A Wikia wiki
Russian soldiers set up defenses in the city, and additional troops were stationed on the eastern shore of the Volga.
These forces became the 62nd Army under the command of Vasily Chuikov.
Called “Hugging the Germans” by Chuikov, this simple tactic forced German soldiers to fight on their own, and led to bitter, brutal fighting in every, literally, corner of the city.
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 chuikov
In the Ukraine, Yury Chuikov says his company, Alternet, can boast of the first commercial WiMAX network in the CIS, and one of the earliest in the EMEA region.
On display are works by Jurij Albert, Nikita Alexejev, Sergei Anufriev, Ivan Chuikov, Maria Chuikova, Jurij Leiderman, Igor Makarevich and Elena Elagina, Andrey Monastyrski, Haralampi G.Academy Plein Air studies in July/August of each year (*Pushkinskie gory* and *Alupka, Crimea* ChuiGrandes Batallas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial Chuikov, Vassili Ivanovitch.
Churchill, Winston LeonaIn the local level, General Vasily Chuikov, the deputy commander of the 64th army South of StalingrЯ бы хотел обратиться с приветствием ко всем ОТ ИЗДАТЕChuikov.
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 sociology - Battle of Stalingrad
Troops still moving eastward in front of the Germans were ordered into the city, while additional units were brought up on the far side of the Volga.
The newly formed 62nd Army under the command of Vasily Chuikov was to defend the city at all costs.
Enemy at the Gates, a 2001 American film which dramatized and in some cases fictionalized elements of real exploits by sniper Vasily Zaitsev.
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 Gatorsports.com :: 100 years of Gator Football   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Memoirs by Vasili Chuikov: Сражение века Battle of a century - Describes his experiences during the Battle of Stalingrad.
Memoirs by Vasili Chuikov: Конец третьего рейха The end of the Third Reich - Describes his experiences during the last months of the war, ending with the Battle of Berlin.
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 Research
By the time the 39th was committed to combat on September 30th, it could muster less than half of its original strength.
At this time, Lt. General Vasily I. Chuikov assumed command of the 62nd Army.
The mission of the 39th was to defend the "Red October" factory.
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 The Fall of Berlin: Red Army tanks rolled in, and Germans kept firing
Chuikov gave strict orders not to touch the population, not to rape, not to rob.
German troops put up fierce resistance as the Red Army pounded its way into the heart of the city in an immensely powerful artillery barrage, armed with the Katyusha rocket launchers.
On his way in, Novikov crossed paths with Marshal Georgy Zhukov, commander of the 1st Byelorussian Front; the 1st Tank Army of General Mikhail Katukov; and General Vasily Chuikov, who accepted the surrender of Berlin.
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 Volgograd - HighBeam Encyclopedia
During World War II, the city was nearly destroyed in a battle that marked a major turning point in the war and a landmark in military history.
In Sept., 1942, a German army exceeding 500,000 men (including Italians, Hungarians, and Romanians) and commanded by Gen. Friedrich von Paulus began an all-out attack on Stalingrad, which was defended by 16 Soviet divisions under Gen. Vasily I. Chuikov.
Stalin ordered that the city be held at all costs.
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