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Biography
Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov was a Soviet military leader who served as a top commander during World War II and achieved the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union. During World War II, Zhukov served as deputy commander-in-chief of the armed forces under leader Joseph Stalin, and oversaw some of the Red Army's most decisive victories. He also served at various points as Chief of the General Staff, Minister of Defence, and a member of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Politburo).
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Awards & recognition
- Order of Lenin · 1971
- Order of Sukhbaatar · 1971
- Hero of the Mongolian People's Republic · 1969
- Order of Sukhbaatar · 1969
- Order of Sukhbaatar · 1968
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- Order of the October Revolution · 1968
- Gold Star medal · 1956
- Hero of the Soviet Union · 1956
- Order of Lenin · 1956
- Order of the Red Banner · 1949
- Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow" · 1947
- Medal — Warsaw 1939-1945 · 1946
- Chief Commander of the Legion of Merit · 1945
- Czechoslovak War Cross 1939–1945 · 1945
- Gold Star medal · 1945
- Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour · 1945
- Hero of the Soviet Union · 1945
- Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath · 1945
- Medal "For the Victory over Japan" · 1945
- Medal "For the Victory over Japan" of Mongolia · 1945
- Order of Lenin · 1945
- Order of the Cross of Grunwald, 1st class · 1945
- Order of the White Lion · 1945
- Order of Victory · 1945
- Virtuti Militari · 1945
- Gold Star medal · 1944
- Hero of the Soviet Union · 1944
- Order of Lenin · 1944
- Order of the Red Banner · 1944
- Order of Victory · 1944
- Order of Suvorov, 1st class · 1943
- Order of the Red Banner · 1942
- Gold Star medal · 1939
- Hero of the Soviet Union · 1939
- Order of Lenin · 1939
- Order of the Red Banner · 1939
- Order of the Republic · 1939
- Order of Lenin · 1936
- Order of the Red Banner · 1922
- Commander of the Legion of Merit
- Commander with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta
- Croix de guerre 1939–1945
- Cross of St. George
- Cross of St. George 3rd class
- Cross of St. George 4th class
- Garibaldi Medal
- Grand Cross of the Order of Military Virtue
- Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
- Jubilee Medal "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy"
- Jubilee Medal "30 years of the Victory in Khalkhin-Gol"
- Jubilee Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
- Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
- Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
- Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
- Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army"
- Jubilee Medal Medal "In Commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of Leningrad"
- Legionnaire of Legion of Merit
- Medal "For Oder, Nysa and the Baltic"
- Medal "For the Capture of Berlin"
- Medal "For the Defence of Leningrad"
- Medal "For the Defence of Moscow"
- Medal "For the Defence of Stalingrad"
- Medal "For the Defence of the Caucasus"
- Medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw"
- Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
- Order of Merit
- Sino-Soviet Friendship Medal
