Viktor Georgievich Kulikov

Kulikov (right) with Putin , 2001

Viktor Georgievich Kulikov

Viktor Georgijewitsch Kulikow ( Russian Виктор Георгиевич Куликов ; born July 5, 1921 in Oryol Governorate , † May 28, 2013 in Moscow ) was a Soviet marshal and politician . He was commander in chief of the United Armed Forces of the Warsaw Pact and Marshal of the Soviet Union .

Life

Kulikow comes from a poor farming family. He served in the army since 1939, attended the infantry school in Grozny in 1941 , became an officer and, during the German-Soviet War, was deployed as commander of tank units on the Baltic and Belarusian fronts . He attended a military school in 1947, the Frunze Military Academy in 1953 and the Military Academy of the General Staff in 1959 .

From May 1967 to 1969 he was the commander of the Kiev military district and from October 1969 to 1971 he was the commander of the Soviet Armed Forces Group in Germany . From September 1971 to 1977 he was Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces . From 1977 to 1989 he was the successor to Iwan Jakubowski , commander in chief of the United Armed Forces of the Warsaw Pact. On January 14, 1977 he was awarded the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union, in 1983 the Lenin Prize .

Kulikov had been a member of parliament since 1989, first in the Soviet and then in the Russian parliament.

Awards (selection)

• 2006: Order of Playa Girón , the highest Cuban honor
• The title Hero of the Soviet Union
• Order of Lenin (four times)
• Lenin Prize
• Order of the Red Banner (three times)
• Order of Merit for the Fatherland
• Patriotic Order of Merit of the GDR in Gold (1981)
• Star of friendship between the peoples of the GDR
• Scharnhorst Order of the GDR (three times)

Works

• New Perspectives on the Cold War , Military Command School, Zurich c 1999
• The military doctrine of the Warsaw Treaty has a defensive character , Verl. D. Novosti Press Agency, Moscow c1988
• Doctrine of Peace , Military Ext. d. German Democrat. Republic, Berlin 1988, 1st edition.
• The Warsaw Treaty , military publisher of Dt. Democrat. Republic, Berlin 1982, 1st edition.

Web links

• Interview from 2005 on pobeda-60.ru (Russian)
• Biography on peoples.ru (Russian)
• Biography on narod.ru (Russian)
• Literature by and about Wiktor Georgijewitsch Kulikow in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Death report on the website of the RIA Novosti news agency (Russian)
2. ↑ Mariscal de la URSS recibe orden Playa Girón by Odalys Buscarón on granma.cu (Spanish) ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed May 30, 2008. 
3. ^ High distinction awarded by the GDR , In: Neues Deutschland , July 6, 1981, p. 1