Boris Shaposhnikov

✶October 2, 1882

†March 26, 1945

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Boris Mikhaylovich Shaposhnikov was a Soviet military officer, theoretician and Marshal of the Soviet Union. He served as the Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces from 1928 to 1931 and at the start of the Second World War. Shaposhnikov was one of the foremost military theorists during the Stalin-era. His most important work, Mozg Armii, is considered a landmark in Soviet military theory and doctrine on the organization of the Red Army's General Staff.

Marshal of the Soviet Union (1882-1945)

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