Anatoly Gribkov

Office	Soviet Army High Command
Date of Birth:	March 23, 1919
Place of Birth:	Dukhovoye, Voronezh Governorate, Russia Russia Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
Date of Death:	February 12, 2008
Place of Death:	n/a
Political party:	Soviet Communist Party Communist Party of the Soviet Union The Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the only legal, ruling political party in the Soviet Union and one of the largest communist organizations in the world...

Anatoly Ivanovich Gribkov (March 23, 1919 – February 12, 2008) was at Soviet Army

Red Army

The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army started out as the Soviet Union's revolutionary communist combat groups during the Russian Civil War of 1918-1922. It grew into the national army of the Soviet Union. By the 1930s the Red Army was among the largest armies in history.The "Red Army" name refers to...

 High Command

High command

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 during the Cold War

Cold War

The Cold War was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States...

 era. Gribkov was born in the village of Dukhovoye (now in Liskinsky District of Voronezh Oblast

Voronezh Oblast

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), Russian SFSR on March 23, 1919, to father Ivan Vasilyevich Gribkov and mother Serafima Kuzminichna Gribkova. He had six brothers and three sisters.

Education

When he was older, he attended the J. V. Stalin Armored Troops School, from which he graduated early, and later graduated from the Soviet General Staff Academy with an honours degree and a gold medal

Gold medal

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Historic events

General Anatoly Gribkov played minor but important roles during the events of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Cuban Missile Crisis

The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation among the Soviet Union, Cuba and the United States in October 1962, during the Cold War...

 and Checkpoint Charlie

Checkpoint Charlie

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He later commanded the Leningrad Military District

Leningrad Military District

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 and, until his retirement in 1989, was the Chief of Staff of the Warsaw Treaty. Gribkov died on February 12, 2008.

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