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Vasily Blyukher
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Vasily Blyukher

1890 – 1938 · aged 48

Soviet marshal (1889–1938)

Born
1890 · Barschinka
Died
9 Nov 1938 · Moscow
Part ofRussian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic1842 – 1922

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 55 years
  1. 1890BornBorn in Barschinka
  2. 1914 – 1918WarWorld War I
  3. 1915AwardGeorge Medal
  4. 1917 – 1922WarRussian Civil War
  5. 1918AwardOrder of the Red Banner
  6. 1921AwardOrder of the Red Banner
  7. 1927 – 1950WarChinese Civil War
  8. 1928AwardOrder of the Red Banner
  9. 1929WarSino-Soviet conflict
  10. 1930AwardOrder of the Red Star
  11. 1931AwardOrder of Lenin
  12. 1932AwardHonorary Worker of the VChK–GPU (V)
  13. 1936AwardOrder of the Red Banner
  14. 1938RoleDeputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
  15. 1938RoleMember of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR
  16. 1938AwardJubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army"
  17. 1938AwardOrder of Lenin
  18. 1938WarBattle of Lake Khasan
  19. 9 Nov 1938DiedDied in Moscow

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1890 – 1938).

  1. 18961896 Summer Olympics
  2. 1898Spanish–American War
  3. 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
  4. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  5. 1917Balfour Declaration
  6. 1917February Revolution
  7. 1917October Revolution
  8. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  9. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  10. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  11. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  12. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  13. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  14. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  15. 1938Munich Agreement

Biography

Vasily Konstantinovich Blyukher (Russian: Васи́лий Константи́нович Блю́хер, romanized: Vasily Konstantinovich Blyukher; 1 December 1889 – 9 November 1938) was a Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union.

In 1938, Blyukher was arrested during the period of military purges under Joseph Stalin for spying. He was tortured and blinded by Lavrentiy Beria and his men before succumbing to his injuries. His body was then incinerated on the orders of Stalin.

Text from the Wikipedia article Vasily Blyukher, CC BY-SA 4.0

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