(1899) - (1960). He was Marshall
of the Soviet Union. Born in the year 1899 in peasant's family. He
worked like industrial worker before to entry at the Red Army and
he fought from 1917 to the white forces. From 1921, he realized studies
in the school of General staff. Later, he is nominated a military
Soviet attaché in Chiang-Kai-Chek's China, to return to his
country with the beginning of the war. In 1942, giving the orders
an army, he must support Stalingrad's front and to avoid the total
occupation of the city from the Germans.
His action will be decisive for
the obtaining of the final victory on the part of the Soviet ones.
In 1944, he led some of the Zhukov's armies that go on Berlin. He
will be who receives the surrender of the Reich's Capital. Once finished
the war, Chuikov is, successively, a governor of the German region
of Turingia and promoted to the generalship. For five years it was
the maximum responsible for the Soviet zone of occupation that should
transform in German Democratic Republic. Raised Marshall's range in
1955, until 1960 occupied the put military maximum in the region of
Kiev.
During the battle of Stalingrad
lead the 62. º Army