File:Andrei_Grechko_3_cropped_(a)(2).jpg · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons
OverviewAI-generated
Andrei Grechko was a Soviet military officer and politician who served as a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He held the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union and served as Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Ground Forces. His military career began in 1919, and he participated in the Russian Civil War, the Soviet invasion of Poland, and World War II on the Eastern Front. He was educated at the M.V. Frunze Military Academy and the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia.
Grechko was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and participated in its 19th, 20th, 21st, and 22nd Congresses. He received the Hero of the Soviet Union, the Gold Star medal, the Hero of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, and the Order of Lenin. Born in Kuybyshevo or Rostov-on-Don, he died in Moscow in 1976 and was buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis. His written work includes *Battle for the Caucasus*.
Synthesized by Vinony from 29 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Wikiquote, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Battle for the Caucasus
via Open Library + Wikidata
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
· 2015 · cited 23,697x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,936x
- Law and Finance
· 1998 · cited 13,294x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,989x
- The RAST Server: Rapid Annotations using Subsystems Technology
· 2008 · cited 10,744x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “For us military men, it is impossible to forget.”
- “Liberalization and democratization are in essence counter-revolution.”
- “The lesson of that victory was that Soviet citizens must still heed Lenin's warning of 1921.”
- “The Communist Party and the Soviet Government display constant concern to strengthen the country's defensive might and raise the combat readiness of the Armed Forces.”
- “We do not have the right to forget that reactionary imperialism exists and its forces actively operate in the world, that they encourage the arms race and that they try to restore the spirit of the Cold War.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Premier
- Alexei Kosygin
- Preceded by
- Rodion Malinovsky
- Succeeded by
- Dmitriy Ustinov
- Born
- Andrei Antonovich Greczhko , ( 1903-10-04 ) 4 October 1903, Golodaevka , Don Host Oblast , Russian Empire
- Died
- 26 April 1976 (1976-04-26) (aged 72), Moscow, Russian SFSR , Soviet Union
- Resting place
- Kremlin Wall Necropolis , Moscow
- Party
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1928–1976)
- Other political affiliations
- Communist Party of Ukraine
- Profession
- Soldier
- Awards
- Hero of the Soviet Union (twice)
- Allegiance
- Soviet Russia , (1919–1922) , Soviet Union , (1922–1976)
- Branch service
- Soviet Army
- Years of service
- 1919–1976
- Rank
- Marshal of the Soviet Union (1955–1976)
- Commands
- 18th Army , 1st Guards Army , Kiev Military District
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Andrey
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Russian Empire
- Place of birth
- Rostov-on-Don
- Place of death
- Moscow
- Occupation
- soldier
- Educated at
- M.V. Frunze Military Academy
- Political party
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Participant in
- 21st Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Field of work
- government
- Military branch
- infantry
- Military rank
- general of the army
- Image
- Andrei Grechko 3 (cropped.jpg
- Work location
- Soviet Union
Show 11 more facts
- Commons category
- Andrei Grechko
- date of birth
- 1903-10-17
- date of death
- 1976-04-26
- place of burial
- Kremlin Wall Necropolis
- allegiance
- Soviet Union
- start of work period
- 1919-00-00
- ethnic group
- Ukrainians
- military unit
- Soviet Armed Forces
- name in native language
- Андрій Антонович Гречко
- end of work period
- 1976-00-00
via Wikidata · CC0
~14 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Andrei Antonovich Grechko (Russian: Андре́й Анто́нович Гре́чко; Ukrainian: Андрій Антонович Гречко; 17 October [O.S. 4 October] 1903 – 26 April 1976) was a Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union during the Cold War. He served as the Soviet minister of defence from 1967 to 1976.
Born to a Ukrainian peasant family near Rostov-on-Don, Grechko served in the Red Army cavalry during the Russian Civil War. After graduating from the Frunze Military Academy, he took part in the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939. Grechko was a fresh graduate of the Voroshilov Military Academy when Axis forces invaded the Soviet Union. He held a succession of cavalry and army commands afterwards and saw action in the Caucasus, Ukraine and Central Europe.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Andrei Grechko” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.