biography
| name: |
Budenny, Simeon Mikhailovich
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pronunciation:
[boodenee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1883–1973)
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| biography:
| Russian soldier, born in Kozyurin, SW Russia. He fought as a Cossack private in the Russo-Japanese War (1904–5). After the revolution he became a Bolshevik, raised a Cossack unit to fight the White forces on the Don, and defeated the Whites in the Battles of Tsaritsyn (1918–19). He served in the war against Poland (1920), and was made a marshal in 1935. In 1941 he commanded the SW sector against the German invasion, but was relieved by Timoshenko after a disaster at Kiev. |
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