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Alexander Samoylo

Died
  
1963, Moscow, Russia

Alexander Samoylo
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Alexander Alexandrovich Samoylo (Russian: aleksándr aleksándrovich Samóilo; October 23 (November 4) 1869—November 8, 1963) was a commander in the Imperial Russian Army and Red Army during World War I and the Russian Civil War. Before the 1917 Russian Revolution, he was a Major General on the general staff. He was made a commander of the Red Army on the Eastern front in May 1919. In 1940, he became Lieutenant General of Aviation and in 1943 a professor. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1944 onwards.

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