Dmitry Yazov

Also known as Dmitry Timofeyevich Yazov

Soviet minister of defence (1924-2020)

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On the military balance of forces and nuclear-missile parity

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Type: Person
Country: RU

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SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing
· 2012 · cited 24,059x
Improved Synthesis of Graphene Oxide
· 2010 · cited 11,317x
FaceNet: A unified embedding for face recognition and clustering
· 2015 · cited 10,819x
Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor
· 2019 · cited 6,488x
2019 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of chronic coronary syndromes
· 2019 · cited 5,871x

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Quotes

“I have been in the army since I was 17, but I never learned to swear. I think that swearing is good on a collective farm when the bulls do not obey. But with people you can't.”
“I cry only for joy. I can see something beautiful and cry. And I'm not ashamed of it. After all, crying from joy is much better than from weakness.”
“Russian and foreign historians and politicians said this for me. In their unanimous opinion, the main event of the twentieth century is the Second World War. In it, in the Great Patriotic War, we won. This is the main thing. Although the Americans wrote very different results, for them, the collapse of the Soviet Union was the main event of the past century. There is no more powerful state. The world has become unipolar and it is beneficial for them.”
“Russians are used to flaunting their fearlessness, but I'll be honest: no one wants to die. Nevertheless, we rose and shouted: "For the Motherland, for Stalin!" and went on the attack.”
“My real friend was my first wife. I could share everything with her without exception. That's how it came together that she became both a wife and a friend. A friend in the full sense of the word happens once in a lifetime or does not happen at all.”

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Key facts

Premier: Nikolai Ryzhkov , Valentin Pavlov
Preceded by: Sergei Sokolov
Succeeded by: Yevgeny Shaposhnikov
Born: Dmitry Timofeyevich Yazov , ( 1924-11-08 ) 8 November 1924, Yazovo, Russian SFSR , Soviet Union
Died: 25 February 2020 (2020-02-25) (aged 95), Moscow, Russia
Resting place: Federal Military Memorial Cemetery , Moscow Oblast
Party: Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1944–1991)
Allegiance: Soviet Union , Russia
Branch service: Soviet Army , Russian Ground Forces
Years of service: 1941–1991
Rank: Marshal of the Soviet Union
Battles wars: World War II Leningrad Front Volkhov Front Siege of Leningrad Courland Pocket Cuban Missile Crisis Soviet–Afghan War Black January January Events August Coup

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Image: Язов Дмитрий Тимофеевич, 1989 год.jpg

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date of birth: 1924-11-08
Commons category: Dmitry Timofeyevich Yazov
date of death: 2020-02-25
name in native language: Дмитрий Тимофеевич Язов
start of work period: 1941-00-00

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Article

Dmitry Timofeyevich Yazov (Russian: Дми́трий Тимофе́евич Я́зов; 8 November 1924 – 25 February 2020) was a Marshal of the Soviet Union. A veteran of the Great Patriotic War, Yazov served as Minister of Defence from 1987 until he was arrested for his part in the 1991 August coup, four months before the fall of the Soviet Union. Yazov was the last person to be appointed to the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union on 28 April 1990 and the only Marshal born in Siberia. At the time of his death on 25 February 2020, he was the last living Marshal of the Soviet Union.

Early life