Colonel General

Colonel General

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 Oka Ivanovich Gorodovikov ' onMouseout='HidePop("94342")' href="/topics/Rostov_Oblast">Rostov Oblast

Rostov Oblast

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 – 26 February 1960 in Moscow) was a Soviet cavalry

Cavalry

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 general of Kalmyk

Kalmyk people

Kalmyk people is the name given to the Oirats, western Mongols in Russia, whose descendants migrated from Dzhungaria in 1607. Today they form a majority in the autonomous Republic of Kalmykia on the western shore of the Caspian Sea. Kalmykia is Europe's only Buddhist government...

 ethnicity, a Hero of the Soviet Union

Hero of the Soviet Union

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. He served as Inspector-General of Cavalry from 1938 to 1941, and as Deputy Commander of Cavalry from 1943 until his retirement in 1947.

The town of Gorodovikovsk

Gorodovikovsk

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 in his native Kalmykia

Kalmykia

The Republic of Kalmykia is a federal subject of Russia . Population: It is the only Buddhist region in Europe. It has also become well-known as an international chess mecca because its former President, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, is the head of the International Chess Federation .-Geography:*Area:...

was named after him in 1971.

Biography in Russian: http://www.hrono.ru/biograf/bio_g/gorodovikov_oi.php