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- Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov was a Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union. He is best known for commanding the 62nd Army which saw heavy combat during the Battle of Stalingrad in the Second World War.
Born to a peasant family near Tula, Chuikov earned his living as a factory worker from the age of 12. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, he joined the Red Army and distinguished himself during the Russian Civil War. After graduating from the Frunze Military Academy, Chuikov worked as a military attach and intelligence officer in China and the Russian Far East. At the outbreak of the Second World War, Chuikov commanded the 4th Army during the Soviet invasion of Poland, and the 9th Army during the Winter War against Finland. In December 1940, he was again appointed military attach to China in support of Chiang Kai-she and the Nationalists in the war against Japan.
In March 1942, Chuikov was recalled from China to defend against the German invasion of the Soviet Union. By September, he was assigned command of the 62nd Army in defense of Stalingrad. Tasked with holding the city at all costs, Chuikov adopted keeping the Soviet front-line positions as close to the Germans as physically possible. This served as an effective countermeasure against the Wehrmacht's combined-arms tactics, but by mid-November 1942 the Germans had captured most of the city after months of slow advance. In late November Chuikov's 62nd Army joined the rest of the Soviet forces in a counter-offensive, which led to the surrender of the German 6th Army in early 1943. After Stalingrad, Chuikov led his forces into Poland during Operation Bagration and the Vistula-Oder Offensive before advancing on Berlin. He personally accepted the unconditional surrender of German forces in Berlin on 2 May 1945.
After the war, Chuikov served as Chief of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany (1949-53), commander of the Kiev Military District (1953-60), Chief of the Soviet Armed Forces and Deputy Minister of Defense (1960-64), and head of the Soviet Civil Defense Forces (1961-72). Chuikov was twice awarded the titles Hero of the Soviet Union (1944 and 1945) and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross by the United States for his actions during the Battle of Stalingrad. In 1955, he was named a Marshal of the Soviet Union. Following his death in 1982, Chuikov was interred at the Stalingrad memorial at Mamayev Kurgan, which had been the site of heavy fighting. - Actor
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Yuriy Puzyryov is Soviet theater and film actor. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1969). Yuriy Puzyryov was born in the village of Serebryanye Prudy of the Moscow Region. His childhood passed in Leningrad. At the beginning of World War II, his mother, Evgenia Arefyevna, was sent to the evacuation. He returned to Leningrad in 1944 and entered the machine-building technical school. At the request of the mother, he was admitted to the Bolshoy Drama Theater to participate in the crowd scenes. When a group came from Moscow to recruit talented young people to the Moscow Art Theater School, Puzyryov was selected and in September 1948 he was enrolled in the acting faculty, which graduated in 1952. In 1952-1958 he served in the Central Theater of Transport, in 1958 he was invited to the Moscow Art Theater. After the division of the Art Theater in 1987, Yuriy was an actor of Moscow Art Theater headed by Tatyana Doronina. In March 1991, due to disagreements with the artistic leadership, he was forced to leave the theater. In the cinema, Yuriy Puzyryov made his debut in 1954, starring in Vladimir Nemolyayev's film Morskoy okhotnik (1954). Widespread fame actor brought the role of Viktor Bezays in the movie Po tu storonu (1958).