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Alexander Samsonov
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Russian general (1859–1914)
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- Works
- 2
Top works
- Strain Solitons in Solids and Their Applications, Second Edition
- Strain Solitons in Solids and How to Construct Them
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 49,579x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,509x
- ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge
· 2015 · cited 30,127x
- SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing
· 2012 · cited 24,056x
- QUANTUM ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials
· 2009 · cited 22,525x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1859-11-14 ) 14 November 1859, Andreevka, Kherson Governorate , Russian Empire
- Died
- 30 August 1914 (1914-08-30) (aged 54), near Försterei Karolinenhof, Willenberg , East Prussia , (now Karolinka Forestry near Wielbark, Poland )
- Cause of death
- Suicide
- Allegiance
- Russian Empire
- Branch
- Imperial Russian Army
- Service years
- 1877–1914
- Rank
- General of the Cavalry
- Commands
- Warsaw Military District (1906–?), Second Army (1914)
- Conflicts
- Boxer Rebellion Russo-Japanese War Battle of Mukden World War I Battle of Tannenberg †
- Awards
- See Honours
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- Alexander Samsonov
- date of birth
- 1859-11-14
- date of death
- 1914-08-30
- name in native language
- Алекса́ндр Самсо́нов
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Alexander or Aleksandr Vasilyevich Samsonov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Васи́льевич Самсо́нов, tr. Aleksándr Vasíl’evič Samsónov; 14 November [O.S. 2 November] 1859 – 30 August [O.S. 17 August] 1914) was a career officer in the cavalry of the Imperial Russian Army and a general during the Russo-Japanese War and World War I. He was the commander of the Russian Second Army which was surrounded and defeated by the German Eighth Army in the Battle of Tannenberg, one of the early battles of World War I. Ashamed by his loss of the army, Samsonov committed suicide while retreating from the battlefield.
Early military career