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href="https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%BA%D0%BE_%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%90%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87" title="Гречко Андрей Антонович – Bashkir" lang="ba" hreflang="ba" data-title="Гречко Андрей Антонович" data-language-autonym="Башҡортса" data-language-local-name="Bashkir" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Башҡортса</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D1%8D%D0%B9_%D0%90%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%96%D1%87_%D0%93%D1%80%D1%8D%D1%87%D0%BA%D0%B0" title="Андрэй Антонавіч Грэчка – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Андрэй Антонавіч Грэчка" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%BA%D0%BE" title="Андрей Гречко – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Андрей Гречко" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Gretxk%C3%B3" title="Andrei Gretxkó – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Andrei Gretxkó" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cv mw-list-item"><a href="https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%BA%D0%BE_%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%90%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87" title="Гречко Андрей Антонович – Chuvash" lang="cv" hreflang="cv" data-title="Гречко Андрей Антонович" data-language-autonym="Чӑвашла" data-language-local-name="Chuvash" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Чӑвашла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrej_Antonovi%C4%8D_Gre%C4%8Dko" title="Andrej Antonovič Grečko – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Andrej Antonovič Grečko" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Antonowitsch_Gretschko" title="Andrei Antonowitsch Gretschko – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Andrei Antonowitsch Gretschko" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Gret%C5%A1ko" title="Andrei Gretško – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Andrei Gretško" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9i_Grechko" title="Andréi Grechko – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Andréi Grechko" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Gretxko" title="Andrei Gretxko – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Andrei Gretxko" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%DB%8C_%DA%AF%D8%B1%DA%86%DA%A9%D9%88" title="آندری گرچکو – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="آندری گرچکو" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre%C3%AF_Gretchko" title="Andreï Gretchko – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Andreï Gretchko" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%95%88%EB%93%9C%EB%A0%88%EC%9D%B4_%EA%B7%B8%EB%A0%88%EC%B9%98%EC%BD%94" title="안드레이 그레치코 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="안드레이 그레치코" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B1%D5%B6%D5%A4%D6%80%D5%A5%D5%B5_%D4%B3%D6%80%D5%A5%D5%B9%D5%AF%D5%B8" title="Անդրեյ Գրեչկո – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Անդրեյ Գրեչկո" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Grechko" title="Andrei Grechko – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Andrei Grechko" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrej_Antonovi%C4%8D_Gre%C4%8Dko" title="Andrej Antonovič Grečko – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Andrej Antonovič Grečko" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%A0%D7%93%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%99_%D7%92%D7%A8%D7%A6%27%D7%A7%D7%95" title="אנדריי גרצ'קו – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="אנדריי גרצ'קו" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrijs_Gre%C4%8Dko" title="Andrijs Grečko – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Andrijs Grečko" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrejus_Gre%C4%8Dka" title="Andrejus Grečka – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Andrejus Grečka" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrej_Antonovics_Grecsko" title="Andrej Antonovics Grecsko – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Andrej Antonovics Grecsko" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%90%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87_%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%BA%D0%BE" title="Андрей Антонович Гречко – Mongolian" lang="mn" hreflang="mn" data-title="Андрей Антонович Гречко" data-language-autonym="Монгол" data-language-local-name="Mongolian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Монгол</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrej_Gretsjko" title="Andrej Gretsjko – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Andrej Gretsjko" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B0%E3%83%AC%E3%83%81%E3%82%B3" title="アンドレイ・グレチコ – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="アンドレイ・グレチコ" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrej_Gretsjko" title="Andrej Gretsjko – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Andrej Gretsjko" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andriej_Grieczko" title="Andriej Grieczko – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Andriej Grieczko" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Greciko" title="Andrei Greciko – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Andrei Greciko" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%BA%D0%BE,_%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%90%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87" title="Гречко, Андрей Антонович – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Гречко, Андрей Антонович" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrej_Antonovi%C4%8D_Gre%C4%8Dko" title="Andrej Antonovič Grečko – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Andrej Antonovič Grečko" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrej_Antonovi%C4%8D_Gre%C4%8Dko" title="Andrej Antonovič Grečko – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Andrej Antonovič Grečko" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%98_%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%BA%D0%BE" title="Андреј Гречко – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Андреј Гречко" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Gret%C5%A1ko" title="Andrei Gretško – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Andrei Gretško" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrej_Gretjko" title="Andrej Gretjko – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Andrej Gretjko" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tt mw-list-item"><a href="https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%BA%D0%BE" title="Андрей Гречко – Tatar" lang="tt" hreflang="tt" data-title="Андрей Гречко" data-language-autonym="Татарча / tatarça" data-language-local-name="Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Татарча / tatarça</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%99%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%94%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%A2%E0%B9%8C_%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%8A%E0%B9%82%E0%B8%84" title="อันเดรย์ เกรชโค – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="อันเดรย์ เกรชโค" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" 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style="font-size:125%; font-weight:bold;"><div class="nickname" lang="ru"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}</style><span class="nobold">Андрей Гречко</span></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Andrei_Grechko_3_cropped_(a).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Andrei_Grechko_3_cropped_%28a%29.jpg/220px-Andrei_Grechko_3_cropped_%28a%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="292" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Andrei_Grechko_3_cropped_%28a%29.jpg/330px-Andrei_Grechko_3_cropped_%28a%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/Andrei_Grechko_3_cropped_%28a%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="430" data-file-height="571" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:normal;padding-top:0.2em;">Grechko in 1960</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Defence_(Soviet_Union)" title="Minister of Defence (Soviet Union)">Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />12 April 1967 – 26 April 1976</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Premier</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Alexei_Kosygin" title="Alexei Kosygin">Alexei Kosygin</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span 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1967</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ivan_Konev" title="Ivan Konev">Ivan Konev</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ivan_Yakubovsky" title="Ivan Yakubovsky">Ivan Yakubovsky</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Commander-in-Chief of the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Military_Administration_in_Germany" title="Soviet Military Administration in Germany">Soviet Military Administration in Germany</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />26 May 1953 – 17 November 1957</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Vasily_Chuikov" title="Vasily Chuikov">Vasily Chuikov</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Matvei_Zakharov" title="Matvei Zakharov">Matvei Zakharov</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Commander of the <a href="/wiki/Kiev_Military_District" title="Kiev Military District">Kiev Military District</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />9 July 1945 – 25 May 1953</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Vasyl_Herasymenko" class="mw-redirect" title="Vasyl Herasymenko">Vasyl Herasymenko</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Vasily_Chuikov" title="Vasily Chuikov">Vasily Chuikov</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Full member of the <a href="/wiki/24th_Politburo_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" class="mw-redirect" title="24th Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">24th Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />27 April 1973 – 26 April 1976</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Andrei Antonovich Greczhko</div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1903-10-04</span>)</span>4 October 1903<br /><a href="/wiki/Kuybyshevsky_District,_Rostov_Oblast" title="Kuybyshevsky District, Rostov Oblast">Golodaevka</a>, <a href="/wiki/Don_Host_Oblast" title="Don Host Oblast">Don Host Oblast</a>, Russian Empire</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">26 April 1976<span style="display:none">(1976-04-26)</span> (aged 72)<br />Moscow, <a href="/wiki/Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic" title="Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic">Russian SFSR</a>, Soviet Union</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Resting place</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Kremlin_Wall_Necropolis" title="Kremlin Wall Necropolis">Kremlin Wall Necropolis</a>, Moscow</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg.png 1.5x, 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href="/wiki/Hero_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Hero of the Soviet Union">Hero of the Soviet Union</a> (twice)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Signature</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Andrei_Grechko_Signature_1949.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Andrei Grechko's signature"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Andrei_Grechko_Signature_1949.png/128px-Andrei_Grechko_Signature_1949.png" decoding="async" width="128" height="70" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Andrei_Grechko_Signature_1949.png/192px-Andrei_Grechko_Signature_1949.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Andrei_Grechko_Signature_1949.png/256px-Andrei_Grechko_Signature_1949.png 2x" data-file-width="520" data-file-height="286" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Military service</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Allegiance</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Flag_of_the_Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic_%281918%E2%80%931925%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic_%281918%E2%80%931925%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Flag_of_the_Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic_%281918%E2%80%931925%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic_%281918%E2%80%931925%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Flag_of_the_Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic_%281918%E2%80%931925%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic_%281918%E2%80%931925%29.svg.png 2x" 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href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a><br />(1922–1976)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Branch/service</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Soviet_Army" title="Soviet Army">Soviet Army</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Years of service</th><td class="infobox-data">1919–1976</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Rank</th><td class="infobox-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Rank_insignia_of_%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%88%D0%B0%D0%BB_%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE_%D0%A1%D0%BE%D1%8E%D0%B7%D0%B0.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img 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class="infobox-label">Battles/wars</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1116488514">.mw-parser-output .treeview ul{padding:0;margin:0}.mw-parser-output .treeview li{padding:0;margin:0;list-style-type:none;list-style-image:none}.mw-parser-output .treeview li li{background:url("https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Treeview-grey-line.png")no-repeat 0 -2981px;padding-left:21px;text-indent:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .treeview li li:last-child{background-position:0 -5971px}.mw-parser-output .treeview li.emptyline>ul>.mw-empty-elt:first-child+.emptyline,.mw-parser-output .treeview li.emptyline>ul>li:first-child{background-position:0 9px}</style><div class="treeview"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Russian_Civil_War" title="Russian Civil War">Russian Civil War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Poland" title="Soviet invasion of Poland">Soviet invasion of Poland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Patriotic_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Great Patriotic War">Great Patriotic War</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/First_Battle_of_Kiev" class="mw-redirect" title="First Battle of Kiev">First Battle of Kiev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barvenkovo%E2%80%93Lozovaya_offensive" title="Barvenkovo–Lozovaya offensive">Barvenkovo–Lozovaya offensive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Caucasus" title="Battle of the Caucasus">Battle of the Caucasus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Dnieper" title="Battle of the Dnieper">Battle of the Dnieper</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Kiev" class="mw-redirect" title="Second Battle of Kiev">Second Battle of Kiev</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zhitomir%E2%80%93Berdichev_offensive" title="Zhitomir–Berdichev offensive">Zhitomir–Berdichev offensive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lvov%E2%80%93Sandomierz_offensive" class="mw-redirect" title="Lvov–Sandomierz offensive">Lvov–Sandomierz offensive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_Carpathian_offensive" title="Western Carpathian offensive">Western Carpathian offensive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moravia%E2%80%93Ostrava_offensive" title="Moravia–Ostrava offensive">Moravia–Ostrava offensive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prague_Offensive" class="mw-redirect" title="Prague Offensive">Prague Offensive</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anti-Soviet_resistance_by_the_Ukrainian_Insurgent_Army" title="Anti-Soviet resistance by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army">Ukrainian insurgency</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/East_German_uprising" class="mw-redirect" title="East German uprising">East German uprising</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hungarian_Revolution_of_1956" title="Hungarian Revolution of 1956">Hungarian uprising</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Warsaw_Pact_invasion_of_Czechoslovakia" title="Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia">Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Andrei Antonovich Grechko</b> (<a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a>: <span lang="ru">Андре́й Анто́нович Гре́чко</span>; <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_language" title="Ukrainian language">Ukrainian</a>: <span lang="uk">Андрій Антонович Гречко</span>; 17 October [<a href="/wiki/Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates" title="Old Style and New Style dates">O.S.</a> 4 October] 1903 – 26 April 1976) was a Soviet military commander and <a href="/wiki/Marshal_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Marshal of the Soviet Union">Marshal of the Soviet Union</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a>. He served as the Soviet <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Defence_of_the_Soviet_Union" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union">minister of defence</a> from 1967 to 1976. </p><p>Born to a Ukrainian peasant family near <a href="/wiki/Rostov-on-Don" title="Rostov-on-Don">Rostov-on-Don</a>, Grechko served in the <a href="/wiki/Red_Army" title="Red Army">Red Army</a> cavalry during the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Civil_War" title="Russian Civil War">Russian Civil War</a>. After graduating from the <a href="/wiki/Frunze_Military_Academy" title="Frunze Military Academy">Frunze Military Academy</a>, he took part in the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Poland" title="Soviet invasion of Poland">Soviet invasion of Poland</a> in 1939. Grechko was a fresh graduate of the <a href="/wiki/Military_Academy_of_the_General_Staff_of_the_Armed_Forces_of_Russia" title="Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia">Voroshilov Military Academy</a> when <a href="/wiki/Operation_Barbarossa" title="Operation Barbarossa">Axis forces invaded the Soviet Union</a>. He held a succession of cavalry and army commands afterwards and saw action in the Caucasus, Ukraine and Central Europe. </p><p>After the war, Grechko commanded the <a href="/wiki/Kiev_Military_District" title="Kiev Military District">Kiev Military District</a>. In 1953, he was appointed commander-in-chief of <a href="/wiki/Group_of_Soviet_Forces_in_Germany" title="Group of Soviet Forces in Germany">Soviet Forces in East Germany</a>, and led the suppression of the <a href="/wiki/East_German_uprising_of_1953" title="East German uprising of 1953">East German uprising</a>. In 1955, he was named a Marshal of the Soviet Union. In 1957, he became commander-in-chief of the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Army" title="Soviet Army">Soviet Ground Forces</a>, and three years later he also became the commander of the <a href="/wiki/Warsaw_Pact" title="Warsaw Pact">Warsaw Pact</a> forces. In 1967, Grechko was appointed Minister of Defence, and oversaw the subsequent <a href="/wiki/Warsaw_Pact_invasion_of_Czechoslovakia" title="Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia">Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sino-Soviet_border_conflict" title="Sino-Soviet border conflict">violent border clashes</a> with China. He helped modernize the Soviet Army and was responsible for continuing the Soviet hegemony over Eastern Europe. An ideological hardliner, he was a defender of the <a href="/wiki/First_strike_(nuclear_strategy)" title="First strike (nuclear strategy)">first strike</a> nuclear strategy, and only reluctantly supported <a href="/wiki/Leonid_Brezhnev" title="Leonid Brezhnev">Leonid Brezhnev</a>'s <a href="/wiki/D%C3%A9tente" title="Détente">détente</a> with the United States and the <a href="/wiki/Strategic_Arms_Limitation_Talks" title="Strategic Arms Limitation Talks">Strategic Arms Limitation Talks</a> (SALT). Grechko died in 1976 at the age of 72. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Andrei_Grechko&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Grechko was the thirteenth child born to a family of <a href="/wiki/Ukrainians" title="Ukrainians">Ukrainian</a> peasants on 17 October 1903, at a small town near <a href="/wiki/Rostov-on-Don" title="Rostov-on-Don">Rostov-on-Don</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:2_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_military_career">Early military career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Andrei_Grechko&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early military career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Andrei_Grechko_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/Andrei_Grechko_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="240" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="170" data-file-height="240" /></a><figcaption>Grechko as a soldier in the <a href="/wiki/Red_Army" title="Red Army">Red Army</a></figcaption></figure> <p>He joined the <a href="/wiki/Red_Army" title="Red Army">Red Army</a> in 1919, where he was a part of the <a href="/wiki/1st_Cavalry_Army" title="1st Cavalry Army">1st Cavalry Army</a>. During the war, he fought in the <a href="/wiki/Caucasian_Front_(RSFSR)" title="Caucasian Front (RSFSR)">Caucasian Front</a> and <a href="/wiki/Southern_Front_(RSFSR)" title="Southern Front (RSFSR)">Southern Front</a>, where fought in battles against the <a href="/wiki/White_Army" title="White Army">White Army</a> troops of Generals <a href="/wiki/Anton_Denikin" title="Anton Denikin">Anton Denikin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pyotr_Wrangel" title="Pyotr Wrangel">Pyotr Wrangel</a>, and detachments of Ataman <a href="/wiki/Nestor_Makhno" title="Nestor Makhno">Nestor Makhno</a>, and the elimination of political and criminal banditry.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From September 1921 to July 1922, he served in a separate battalion of <a href="/wiki/OSNAZ" class="mw-redirect" title="OSNAZ">OSNAZ</a> in <a href="/wiki/Taganrog" title="Taganrog">Taganrog</a>. He studied at the <a href="/wiki/Crimean" class="mw-redirect" title="Crimean">Crimean</a> Cavalry courses Named After the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, in which he graduated in August 1923. After graduation, he was sent to study at the Taganrog Cavalry School of the <a href="/wiki/North_Caucasian_Military_District" class="mw-redirect" title="North Caucasian Military District">North Caucasian Military District</a> and in August 1924, he was transferred to the North Caucasian Mountain Nationalities Cavalry School in <a href="/wiki/Krasnodar" title="Krasnodar">Krasnodar</a>. During his studies, he was a foreman of a squadron and from 1925 to 1926, he participated in military operations against gang formations in <a href="/wiki/Chechnya" title="Chechnya">Chechnya</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dagestan" title="Dagestan">Dagestan</a>. He graduated in 1926 and became a member of the <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Communist Party of the Soviet Union">Communist Party of the Soviet Union</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From September 1926 to April 1932, he served in the 61st Cavalry Regiment of the 1st Separate Cavalry Brigade at the <a href="/wiki/Moscow_Military_District" title="Moscow Military District">Moscow Military District</a>, and platoon and machine-gun squadron commander.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Grechko graduated from the <a href="/wiki/Frunze_Military_Academy" title="Frunze Military Academy">Military Academy of the Red Army named after M. V. Frunze</a> in 1936. After graduation, he served in the Special Red Banner Cavalry Division named after <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Stalin" title="Joseph Stalin">I.V. Stalin</a> of the Moscow Military District and later transferred to the <a href="/wiki/Belarusian_Military_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Belarusian Military District">Belarusian Special Military District</a>, where he served as assistant chief and chief of the 1st (operational) part of the division headquarters and commander of the 62nd Cavalry Regiment. From May 1938 to October 1938, he served as assistant chief of staff of the division.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He graduated from the academy of the <a href="/wiki/Military_Academy_of_the_General_Staff_of_the_Armed_Forces_of_Russia" title="Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia">General Staff of the Red Army named after K. E. Voroshilov</a> in June 1941.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="World_War_II">World War II</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Andrei_Grechko&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: World War II"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Comandante_del_1er_Ej%C3%A9rcito_de_Guardias_Andr%C3%A9i_Grechko_(segundo_desde_la_derecha).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Comandante_del_1er_Ej%C3%A9rcito_de_Guardias_Andr%C3%A9i_Grechko_%28segundo_desde_la_derecha%29.jpg/220px-Comandante_del_1er_Ej%C3%A9rcito_de_Guardias_Andr%C3%A9i_Grechko_%28segundo_desde_la_derecha%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="156" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Comandante_del_1er_Ej%C3%A9rcito_de_Guardias_Andr%C3%A9i_Grechko_%28segundo_desde_la_derecha%29.jpg/330px-Comandante_del_1er_Ej%C3%A9rcito_de_Guardias_Andr%C3%A9i_Grechko_%28segundo_desde_la_derecha%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Comandante_del_1er_Ej%C3%A9rcito_de_Guardias_Andr%C3%A9i_Grechko_%28segundo_desde_la_derecha%29.jpg/440px-Comandante_del_1er_Ej%C3%A9rcito_de_Guardias_Andr%C3%A9i_Grechko_%28segundo_desde_la_derecha%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="550" data-file-height="390" /></a><figcaption>Grechko (center), commander of the 1st Guards Army, at the <a href="/wiki/%C3%81rp%C3%A1d_Line" title="Árpád Line">Árpád Line</a> (1944)</figcaption></figure> <p>In October 1938, he was appointed as chief of staff of the 62nd Cavalry Regiment. While serving in this position, he participated in the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Poland" title="Soviet invasion of Poland">Soviet invasion of Poland</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_2-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the early days of the <a href="/wiki/German_invasion_of_the_Soviet_Union" class="mw-redirect" title="German invasion of the Soviet Union">German invasion of the Soviet Union</a>, Grechko served in the Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Red Army. Grechko's first command during <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> was of the 34th Cavalry Division, which put up a valiant fight around <a href="/wiki/Kremenchug" class="mw-redirect" title="Kremenchug">Kremenchug</a> near Kiev in <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" title="Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic">Ukraine</a> during the <a href="/wiki/First_Battle_of_Kiev" class="mw-redirect" title="First Battle of Kiev">First Battle of Kiev</a>. The division was assigned to the <a href="/wiki/26th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="26th Army (Soviet Union)">26th</a>, <a href="/wiki/38th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="38th Army (Soviet Union)">38th</a> and <a href="/wiki/6th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" class="mw-redirect" title="6th Army (Soviet Union)">6th Armies</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Southwestern_Front_(Soviet_Union)" title="Southwestern Front (Soviet Union)">Southwestern Front</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_2-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 15 January 1942, Grechko was put in command of the <a href="/wiki/5th_Cavalry_Corps_(Soviet_Union)" title="5th Cavalry Corps (Soviet Union)">5th Cavalry Corps</a> and took part in the <a href="/wiki/Barvenkovo%E2%80%93Lozovaya_offensive" title="Barvenkovo–Lozovaya offensive">Barvenkovo–Lozovaya offensive</a>. From March 1942, he was appointed as commander of the operational group of troops in the <a href="/wiki/Southern_Front_(Soviet_Union)" title="Southern Front (Soviet Union)">Southern Front</a>, which operated in the <a href="/wiki/Donbas" title="Donbas">Donbas</a>. Starting 15 April 1942, Grechko was placed in command of <a href="/wiki/12th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="12th Army (Soviet Union)">12th Army</a> and took part in the defense of <a href="/wiki/Voroshilovgrad" class="mw-redirect" title="Voroshilovgrad">Voroshilovgrad</a> and from July, took part in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Caucasus" title="Battle of the Caucasus">Battle of the Caucasus</a>. In September 1942, Grechko commanded the <a href="/wiki/47th_Army" title="47th Army">47th Army</a> and at the same time acting as commander of the Novorossiysk Defensive Region. He commanded the <a href="/wiki/47th_Army" title="47th Army">47th Army</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Transcaucasian_Front" class="mw-redirect" title="Transcaucasian Front">Transcaucasian Front</a> from 19 October 1942 and took part in the <a href="/wiki/Tuapse" title="Tuapse">Tuapse</a> Operation.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From 5 January 1943, Grechko was commander of the <a href="/wiki/56th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="56th Army (Soviet Union)">56th Army</a> in the Transcaucasian Front, during which he took part in the North Caucasian Strategic Offensive Operation. After fierce battles in January, his unit broke through the heavily fortified enemy defenses and reached the approaches to Krasnodar. From February to March, as part of the <a href="/wiki/North_Caucasian_Front" class="mw-redirect" title="North Caucasian Front">North Caucasian Front</a>, he participated in the Krasnodar Offensive, and then in a number of local and mostly unsuccessful offensive operations of the front troops. In September 1943, the troops of the 56th Army, in cooperation with the <a href="/wiki/9th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="9th Army (Soviet Union)">9th</a> and the 18th Armies, liberated the <a href="/wiki/Taman_Peninsula" title="Taman Peninsula">Taman Peninsula</a> from the direction of <a href="/wiki/Novorossiysk" title="Novorossiysk">Novorossiysk</a>, during the Novorossiysk-Taman Strategic Offensive Operation.<sup id="cite_ref-:GT_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:GT-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Grechko served as the deputy commander of the <a href="/wiki/Voronezh_Front" class="mw-redirect" title="Voronezh Front">Voronezh Front</a> from 16 October 1943 and on 20 October, he was appointed as deputy commander of the <a href="/wiki/1st_Ukrainian_Front" title="1st Ukrainian Front">1st Ukrainian Front</a>. During this time, he fought in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Dnieper" title="Battle of the Dnieper">Battle of the Dnieper</a> and <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kiev_(1943)" title="Battle of Kiev (1943)">Second Battle of Kiev</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:GV_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:GV-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Then, on 14 December 1943, he was made the Commanding General of <a href="/wiki/1st_Guards_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="1st Guards Army (Soviet Union)">1st Guards Army</a>, a position he held until the end of the war. The First Guards Army was a part of the <a href="/wiki/4th_Ukrainian_Front" title="4th Ukrainian Front">4th Ukrainian Front</a>, which was led by Col.-Gen. <a href="/wiki/Ivan_Yefimovich_Petrov" class="mw-redirect" title="Ivan Yefimovich Petrov">Ivan Yefimovich Petrov</a>. Grechko led the 1st Guards in a number of offensive operations, predominantly in <a href="/wiki/Czechoslovakia" title="Czechoslovakia">Czechoslovakia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hungary" title="Hungary">Hungary</a> and into <a href="/wiki/Austria" title="Austria">Austria</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:GV_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:GV-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Warsaw_Pact_command">Warsaw Pact command</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Andrei_Grechko&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Warsaw Pact command"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-83697-0003,_Rodion_J._Malinowski,_Heinz_Hoffmann,_Walter_Ulbricht.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-83697-0003%2C_Rodion_J._Malinowski%2C_Heinz_Hoffmann%2C_Walter_Ulbricht.jpg/220px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-83697-0003%2C_Rodion_J._Malinowski%2C_Heinz_Hoffmann%2C_Walter_Ulbricht.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="208" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-83697-0003%2C_Rodion_J._Malinowski%2C_Heinz_Hoffmann%2C_Walter_Ulbricht.jpg/330px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-83697-0003%2C_Rodion_J._Malinowski%2C_Heinz_Hoffmann%2C_Walter_Ulbricht.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-83697-0003%2C_Rodion_J._Malinowski%2C_Heinz_Hoffmann%2C_Walter_Ulbricht.jpg/440px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-83697-0003%2C_Rodion_J._Malinowski%2C_Heinz_Hoffmann%2C_Walter_Ulbricht.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="755" /></a><figcaption>Grechko (far right) with <a href="/wiki/East_German_leader" class="mw-redirect" title="East German leader">East German leader</a> <a href="/wiki/Walter_Ulbricht" title="Walter Ulbricht">Walter Ulbricht</a> (center) and then Soviet Minister of Defense Marshal <a href="/wiki/Rodion_Malinovsky" title="Rodion Malinovsky">Rodion Malinovsky</a> (far left) (1961)</figcaption></figure> <p>After the war, Grechko was the Commanding General of the <a href="/wiki/Kiev_Military_District" title="Kiev Military District">Kiev Military District</a>, until 1953. Between 1953 and 1957, Grechko was the Commander-in-Chief of <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Forces_in_East_Germany" class="mw-redirect" title="Soviet Forces in East Germany">Soviet Forces in East Germany</a>. During this time, he commanded the suppression of the <a href="/wiki/East_German_uprising_of_1953" title="East German uprising of 1953">East German uprising of 1953</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 11 March 1955, Grechko and five other high-ranking colleagues, all of whom gained recognition during the <a href="/wiki/Great_Patriotic_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Great Patriotic War">Great Patriotic War</a> as either <a href="/wiki/Field_army" title="Field army">army</a> or <a href="/wiki/Front_(military_formation)" title="Front (military formation)">front</a> commanders - <a href="/wiki/Kirill_Moskalenko" title="Kirill Moskalenko">Moskalenko</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vasily_Chuikov" title="Vasily Chuikov">Chuikov</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ivan_Bagramyan" title="Ivan Bagramyan">Bagramyan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sergey_Biryuzov" title="Sergey Biryuzov">Biryuzov</a> and <a href="/wiki/Andrey_Yeryomenko" title="Andrey Yeryomenko">Yeremenko</a> - were promoted to the rank of <a href="/wiki/Marshal_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Marshal of the Soviet Union">Marshal of the Soviet Union</a>. From 1957 to 1960, Grechko was the Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces. By decree of the Presidium of the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Soviet_of_the_USSR" class="mw-redirect" title="Supreme Soviet of the USSR">Supreme Soviet of the USSR</a> of 1 February 1958, "for the courage and heroism shown in the fight against the Nazi invaders", Grechko was awarded the title of <a href="/wiki/Hero_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Hero of the Soviet Union">Hero of the Soviet Union</a> with the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Lenin" title="Order of Lenin">Order of Lenin</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Gold_Star_medal" class="mw-redirect" title="Gold Star medal">Gold Star medal</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:PN_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:PN-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From 1960 to 1967, he was the Commander-in-Chief of the <a href="/wiki/Warsaw_Pact" title="Warsaw Pact">Warsaw Pact</a> Forces.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Minister_of_Defense">Minister of Defense</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Andrei_Grechko&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Minister of Defense"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 12 April 1967, Grechko was made the Minister of Defense, taking over shortly after Marshal <a href="/wiki/Rodion_Malinovsky" title="Rodion Malinovsky">Rodion Malinovsky</a> died. Grechko served in this capacity until his death in 1976. During the 1970s, Grechko served as the chairman of the editorial commission that produced the official Soviet history of the Second World War.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In January 1968, following the outbreak of the <a href="/wiki/Prague_Spring" title="Prague Spring">Prague Spring</a> in <a href="/wiki/Czechoslovakia" title="Czechoslovakia">Czechoslovakia</a>, Grechko was the major planner and supporter of the <a href="/wiki/Warsaw_Pact_invasion_of_Czechoslovakia" title="Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia">Warsaw Pact invasion of the country</a>, which stopped <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Dub%C4%8Dek" title="Alexander Dubček">Alexander Dubček</a>'s Prague Spring liberalisation reforms and strengthened the authoritarian wing of the <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Czechoslovakia" title="Communist Party of Czechoslovakia">Communist Party of Czechoslovakia</a> (KSČ). In March 1969, Chinese and Soviet troops fought in <a href="/wiki/Sino-Soviet_border_conflict" title="Sino-Soviet border conflict">violent border clashes</a> near <a href="/wiki/Damansky_Island" class="mw-redirect" title="Damansky Island">Damansky Island</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tielieketi" title="Tielieketi">Tielieketi</a>. In response to the clashes, Grechko strongly persuaded <a href="/wiki/General_Secretary_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">General Secretary of the Communist Party</a> <a href="/wiki/Leonid_Brezhnev" title="Leonid Brezhnev">Leonid Brezhnev</a> to carry out a surgical nuclear strike against China, especially targeting the <a href="/wiki/Lop_Nur" title="Lop Nur">Lop Nur</a> Nuclear Test Site in the <a href="/wiki/Autonomous_regions_of_China" title="Autonomous regions of China">Chinese autonomous region</a> of <a href="/wiki/Xinjiang" title="Xinjiang">Xinjiang</a>. Due to the resistance of the party factions headed by <a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Suslov" title="Mikhail Suslov">Mikhail Suslov</a> and <a href="/wiki/Premier_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Premier of the Soviet Union">Soviet Premier</a> <a href="/wiki/Alexei_Kosygin" title="Alexei Kosygin">Alexei Kosygin</a>, who went to <a href="/wiki/Beijing" title="Beijing">Beijing</a> to meet with the Chinese leaders to reduce tensions between the two countries, a nuclear war was avoided.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Andrei_Grechko_6_(enlarged).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Andrei_Grechko_6_%28enlarged%29.jpg/200px-Andrei_Grechko_6_%28enlarged%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="282" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Andrei_Grechko_6_%28enlarged%29.jpg/300px-Andrei_Grechko_6_%28enlarged%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/Andrei_Grechko_6_%28enlarged%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="306" data-file-height="432" /></a><figcaption>Marshal Andrei Grechko</figcaption></figure> <p>In December 1971, during the <a href="/wiki/Indo-Pakistani_War_of_1971" class="mw-redirect" title="Indo-Pakistani War of 1971">Indo-Pakistani War of 1971</a>, Grechko helped to provide military support to India during the war. During the <a href="/wiki/Arab-Israeli_conflict" class="mw-redirect" title="Arab-Israeli conflict">Arab-Israeli conflict</a>, Grechko oversaw the providing of Soviet military support to Arab countries against Israel. In the final days of the <a href="/wiki/Yom_Kippur_War" title="Yom Kippur War">Yom Kippur War</a> in 1973, Grechko authorized the Soviet advisers operating the <a href="/wiki/Scud_missile" title="Scud missile">Scud missile</a> brigade stationed in <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a> to fulfill Egyptian request to <a href="/wiki/October_22_Scud_missile_attack" title="October 22 Scud missile attack">launch a barrage of missiles</a> at <a href="/wiki/Israeli_Defense_Forces" class="mw-redirect" title="Israeli Defense Forces">Israeli Defense Forces</a> targets at the Israeli bridgehead on the western bank of the <a href="/wiki/Suez_Canal" title="Suez Canal">Suez Canal</a> on October 22, just moments before the ceasefire. Seven Israeli soldiers were killed in the attack.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of October 16, 1973, "for services to the Motherland in the construction and strengthening of the Armed Forces of the USSR and in connection with the 70th anniversary of his birth", Grechko was awarded the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union for the second time.<sup id="cite_ref-:PN_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:PN-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p> Grechko was an active member in the <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Communist Party of the Soviet Union">Communist Party</a>, and was a member of the <a href="/wiki/Politburo" title="Politburo">Politburo</a>. As Minister of Defense, he helped modernize the Soviet Army and was greatly responsible for maintaining the military strength of the Soviet Union. Grechko was known to give preferential treatment to <a href="/wiki/Ukrainians" title="Ukrainians">Ukrainians</a>, and attempted to fill command posts with them whenever possible.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was also responsible for maintaining Soviet military might and hegemony over <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Europe" title="Eastern Europe">Eastern Europe</a>. An ideological and strategic hardliner, and a reluctant supporter of the <a href="/wiki/Strategic_Arms_Limitation_Talks" title="Strategic Arms Limitation Talks">Strategic Arms Limitation Talks</a> (SALT), his most notable idea was his assumption that a <a href="/wiki/Third_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Third World War">Third World War</a> would always go nuclear at some point, and as such he planned that if World War III did begin, to launch all-out nuclear strikes against the NATO nations the moment that the war began.<sup id="cite_ref-SS-20_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SS-20-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For Grechko, nuclear weapons would be weapons of first resort in a world war, not weapons of last resort. His views had caused opposition within the military and the political leadership, who wanted the Soviet Union to have a second strike capacity in order to prevent a war with the United States from going nuclear immediately as he preferred.<sup id="cite_ref-SS-20_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SS-20-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B7_%D0%BE%D0%B1_%D1%83%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B8_%D0%B8%D0%B7_%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B6%D1%91%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8B%D1%85_%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB_%D0%A1%D0%A1%D0%A1%D0%A0_%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BB%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%B0%D1%89%D0%B8%D1%85_%D0%B2_%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%81_1976_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B7_%D0%BE%D0%B1_%D1%83%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B8_%D0%B8%D0%B7_%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B6%D1%91%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8B%D1%85_%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB_%D0%A1%D0%A1%D0%A1%D0%A0_%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BB%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%B0%D1%89%D0%B8%D1%85_%D0%B2_%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%81_1976_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0.jpg/220px-%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B7_%D0%BE%D0%B1_%D1%83%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B8_%D0%B8%D0%B7_%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B6%D1%91%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8B%D1%85_%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB_%D0%A1%D0%A1%D0%A1%D0%A0_%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BB%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%B0%D1%89%D0%B8%D1%85_%D0%B2_%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%81_1976_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="249" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B7_%D0%BE%D0%B1_%D1%83%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B8_%D0%B8%D0%B7_%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B6%D1%91%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8B%D1%85_%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB_%D0%A1%D0%A1%D0%A1%D0%A0_%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BB%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%B0%D1%89%D0%B8%D1%85_%D0%B2_%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%81_1976_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0.jpg/330px-%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B7_%D0%BE%D0%B1_%D1%83%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B8_%D0%B8%D0%B7_%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B6%D1%91%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8B%D1%85_%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB_%D0%A1%D0%A1%D0%A1%D0%A0_%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BB%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%B0%D1%89%D0%B8%D1%85_%D0%B2_%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%81_1976_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B7_%D0%BE%D0%B1_%D1%83%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B8_%D0%B8%D0%B7_%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B6%D1%91%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8B%D1%85_%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB_%D0%A1%D0%A1%D0%A1%D0%A0_%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BB%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%B0%D1%89%D0%B8%D1%85_%D0%B2_%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%81_1976_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0.jpg/440px-%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B7_%D0%BE%D0%B1_%D1%83%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B8_%D0%B8%D0%B7_%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B6%D1%91%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8B%D1%85_%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB_%D0%A1%D0%A1%D0%A1%D0%A0_%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BB%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%B0%D1%89%D0%B8%D1%85_%D0%B2_%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%81_1976_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1080" data-file-height="1220" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> <p>In 1976, shortly before his death, he initiated the deployment of the <a href="/wiki/RSD-10" class="mw-redirect" title="RSD-10">RSD-10</a> medium-range ballistic missiles, which led to the <a href="/wiki/NATO_Double-Track_Decision" title="NATO Double-Track Decision">NATO Double-Track Decision</a> in the early 1980s.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life_and_death">Personal life and death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Andrei_Grechko&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Personal life and death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Grechko was married to Claudia Vladimirovna Grechko (1907-1990), with whom he had a daughter Tatyana Andreevna (1927-2002). Tatyana was married to Soviet and Russian diplomat Yuriy Kirichenko (1936-2017), the son of <a href="/wiki/First_Secretary_of_the_Communist_Party_of_Ukraine" title="First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine">First Secretary</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Ukraine_(Soviet_Union)" title="Communist Party of Ukraine (Soviet Union)">Communist Party of Ukraine</a> <a href="/wiki/Aleksey_Kirichenko" title="Aleksey Kirichenko">Aleksey Kirichenko</a>. According to the memoirs of his contemporaries, Grechko was an enthusiastic fan of the sports club <a href="/wiki/CSKA_Moscow" title="CSKA Moscow">CSKA Moscow</a>. Due to his efforts, the club received not only a <a href="/wiki/Grigory_Fedotov_Stadium" title="Grigory Fedotov Stadium">new stadium</a>, but also an arena, a base in <a href="/wiki/Arkhangelsk" title="Arkhangelsk">Arkhangelsk</a> and a host of other sports facilities.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Grechko died on 26 April 1976, at the age of 72. According to <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>, Grechko's medical report which was published by the Soviet press agency <i><a href="/wiki/TASS" title="TASS">TASS</a></i> stated that he had suffered for a long time from <a href="/wiki/Atherosclerosis" title="Atherosclerosis">atherosclerosis</a> and <a href="/wiki/Coronary_insufficiency" class="mw-redirect" title="Coronary insufficiency">coronary insufficiency</a>. He was honoured with a state funeral and cremated on 30 April. The urn containing his ashes is buried by the <a href="/wiki/Kremlin_Wall_Necropolis" title="Kremlin Wall Necropolis">Kremlin Wall Necropolis</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Honours_and_awards">Honours and awards</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Andrei_Grechko&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Honours and awards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a 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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%BA%D0%BE_%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%90%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87_%28%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82%29.jpg/330px-%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%BA%D0%BE_%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%90%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87_%28%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%BA%D0%BE_%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%90%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87_%28%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82%29.jpg/440px-%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%BA%D0%BE_%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%90%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87_%28%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="421" /></a><figcaption>Portrait of Marshal Grechko featured in the 2003 Russian postal cover</figcaption></figure> <table> <tbody><tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Hero_of_the_Soviet_Union_medal.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Hero_of_the_Soviet_Union_medal.png/20px-Hero_of_the_Soviet_Union_medal.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Hero_of_the_Soviet_Union_medal.png/30px-Hero_of_the_Soviet_Union_medal.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Hero_of_the_Soviet_Union_medal.png/40px-Hero_of_the_Soviet_Union_medal.png 2x" data-file-width="143" data-file-height="280" /></a></span> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Hero_of_the_Soviet_Union_medal.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Hero_of_the_Soviet_Union_medal.png/20px-Hero_of_the_Soviet_Union_medal.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Hero_of_the_Soviet_Union_medal.png/30px-Hero_of_the_Soviet_Union_medal.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Hero_of_the_Soviet_Union_medal.png/40px-Hero_of_the_Soviet_Union_medal.png 2x" data-file-width="143" data-file-height="280" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hero_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Hero of the Soviet Union">Hero of the Soviet Union</a>, twice (1 February 1958, 16 October 1973)<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Order_of_Lenin_ribbon_bar.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Order_of_Lenin_ribbon_bar.png/60px-Order_of_Lenin_ribbon_bar.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/Order_of_Lenin_ribbon_bar.png 1.5x" data-file-width="72" data-file-height="30" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Order_of_Lenin" title="Order of Lenin">Order of Lenin</a>, six times (December 1942, 1945, 1 February 1958, October 1963, 22 February 1968, 16 October 1973)<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Order_of_Red_Banner_ribbon_bar.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Order_of_Red_Banner_ribbon_bar.png/60px-Order_of_Red_Banner_ribbon_bar.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d9/Order_of_Red_Banner_ribbon_bar.png 1.5x" data-file-width="72" data-file-height="30" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Red_Banner" title="Order of the Red Banner">Order of the Red Banner</a>, three times (1941, 1944, 1950) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Order_suvorov1_rib.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Order_suvorov1_rib.png/60px-Order_suvorov1_rib.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Order_suvorov1_rib.png 1.5x" data-file-width="72" data-file-height="30" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Order_of_Suvorov" title="Order of Suvorov">Order of Suvorov</a>, 1st class, twice (1944, 1945) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Order_suvorov2_rib.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Order_suvorov2_rib.png/60px-Order_suvorov2_rib.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/Order_suvorov2_rib.png 1.5x" data-file-width="72" data-file-height="30" /></a></span> </td> <td>Order of Suvorov, 2nd class (February 1943) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Order_kutuzov1_rib.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Order_kutuzov1_rib.png/60px-Order_kutuzov1_rib.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Order_kutuzov1_rib.png 1.5x" data-file-width="72" data-file-height="30" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Order_of_Kutuzov" title="Order of Kutuzov">Order of Kutuzov</a>, 1st class, twice (1943, 1944) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:SU_Order_of_Bogdan_Khmelnitsky_1st_class_ribbon.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/SU_Order_of_Bogdan_Khmelnitsky_1st_class_ribbon.svg/60px-SU_Order_of_Bogdan_Khmelnitsky_1st_class_ribbon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/SU_Order_of_Bogdan_Khmelnitsky_1st_class_ribbon.svg/90px-SU_Order_of_Bogdan_Khmelnitsky_1st_class_ribbon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/SU_Order_of_Bogdan_Khmelnitsky_1st_class_ribbon.svg/120px-SU_Order_of_Bogdan_Khmelnitsky_1st_class_ribbon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="144" data-file-height="60" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Order_of_Bogdan_Khmelnitsky_(Soviet_Union)" title="Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky (Soviet Union)">Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky</a>, 1st class (January 1944) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Defkiev_rib.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Defkiev_rib.png/60px-Defkiev_rib.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/Defkiev_rib.png 1.5x" data-file-width="72" data-file-height="30" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Medal_%22For_the_Defence_of_Kiev%22" title="Medal "For the Defence of Kiev"">Medal "For the Defence of Kiev"</a> (1961) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Ribbon_bar_for_the_medal_for_the_Defense_of_Moscow.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Ribbon_bar_for_the_medal_for_the_Defense_of_Moscow.png/60px-Ribbon_bar_for_the_medal_for_the_Defense_of_Moscow.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7e/Ribbon_bar_for_the_medal_for_the_Defense_of_Moscow.png 1.5x" data-file-width="72" data-file-height="30" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Medal_%22For_the_Defence_of_Moscow%22" title="Medal "For the Defence of Moscow"">Medal "For the Defence of Moscow"</a> (1944) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Defcaucasus_rib.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Defcaucasus_rib.png/60px-Defcaucasus_rib.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/Defcaucasus_rib.png 1.5x" data-file-width="72" data-file-height="30" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Medal_%22For_the_Defence_of_the_Caucasus%22" title="Medal "For the Defence of the Caucasus"">Medal "For the Defence of the Caucasus"</a> (1944) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Order_of_Glory_Ribbon_Bar.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Order_of_Glory_Ribbon_Bar.png/60px-Order_of_Glory_Ribbon_Bar.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/Order_of_Glory_Ribbon_Bar.png 1.5x" data-file-width="72" data-file-height="30" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Medal_%22For_the_Victory_over_Germany_in_the_Great_Patriotic_War_1941%E2%80%931945%22" title="Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"">Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"</a> (1945) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:100_lenin_rib.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/100_lenin_rib.png/60px-100_lenin_rib.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e7/100_lenin_rib.png 1.5x" data-file-width="72" data-file-height="30" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jubilee_Medal_%22In_Commemoration_of_the_100th_Anniversary_of_the_Birth_of_Vladimir_Ilyich_Lenin%22" title="Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"">Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"</a> (1969) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:SU_Medal_Twenty_Years_of_Victory_in_the_Great_Patriotic_War_1941-1945_ribbon.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/SU_Medal_Twenty_Years_of_Victory_in_the_Great_Patriotic_War_1941-1945_ribbon.svg/60px-SU_Medal_Twenty_Years_of_Victory_in_the_Great_Patriotic_War_1941-1945_ribbon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/SU_Medal_Twenty_Years_of_Victory_in_the_Great_Patriotic_War_1941-1945_ribbon.svg/90px-SU_Medal_Twenty_Years_of_Victory_in_the_Great_Patriotic_War_1941-1945_ribbon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/SU_Medal_Twenty_Years_of_Victory_in_the_Great_Patriotic_War_1941-1945_ribbon.svg/120px-SU_Medal_Twenty_Years_of_Victory_in_the_Great_Patriotic_War_1941-1945_ribbon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="144" data-file-height="60" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jubilee_Medal_%22Twenty_Years_of_Victory_in_the_Great_Patriotic_War_1941-1945%22" class="mw-redirect" title="Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"">Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"</a> (1965) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:SU_Medal_Thirty_Years_of_Victory_in_the_Great_Patriotic_War_1941-1945_ribbon.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/SU_Medal_Thirty_Years_of_Victory_in_the_Great_Patriotic_War_1941-1945_ribbon.svg/60px-SU_Medal_Thirty_Years_of_Victory_in_the_Great_Patriotic_War_1941-1945_ribbon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/SU_Medal_Thirty_Years_of_Victory_in_the_Great_Patriotic_War_1941-1945_ribbon.svg/90px-SU_Medal_Thirty_Years_of_Victory_in_the_Great_Patriotic_War_1941-1945_ribbon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/SU_Medal_Thirty_Years_of_Victory_in_the_Great_Patriotic_War_1941-1945_ribbon.svg/120px-SU_Medal_Thirty_Years_of_Victory_in_the_Great_Patriotic_War_1941-1945_ribbon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="144" data-file-height="60" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jubilee_Medal_%22Thirty_Years_of_Victory_in_the_Great_Patriotic_War_1941%E2%80%931945%22" title="Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"">Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"</a> (1975) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:20_years_saf_rib.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/20_years_saf_rib.png/60px-20_years_saf_rib.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/20_years_saf_rib.png 1.5x" data-file-width="72" data-file-height="30" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jubilee_Medal_%22XX_Years_of_the_Workers%27_and_Peasants%27_Red_Army%22" title="Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army"">Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army"</a> (1938) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:SU_Medal_30_Years_of_the_Soviet_Army_and_Navy_ribbon.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/SU_Medal_30_Years_of_the_Soviet_Army_and_Navy_ribbon.svg/60px-SU_Medal_30_Years_of_the_Soviet_Army_and_Navy_ribbon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/SU_Medal_30_Years_of_the_Soviet_Army_and_Navy_ribbon.svg/90px-SU_Medal_30_Years_of_the_Soviet_Army_and_Navy_ribbon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/SU_Medal_30_Years_of_the_Soviet_Army_and_Navy_ribbon.svg/120px-SU_Medal_30_Years_of_the_Soviet_Army_and_Navy_ribbon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="144" data-file-height="60" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jubilee_Medal_%2230_Years_of_the_Soviet_Army_and_Navy%22" title="Jubilee Medal "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy"">Jubilee Medal "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy"</a> (1948) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:40_years_saf_rib.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/40_years_saf_rib.png/60px-40_years_saf_rib.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/40_years_saf_rib.png 1.5x" data-file-width="72" data-file-height="30" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jubilee_Medal_%2240_Years_of_the_Armed_Forces_of_the_USSR%22" title="Jubilee Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"">Jubilee Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"</a> (1958) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:50_years_saf_rib.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/50_years_saf_rib.png/60px-50_years_saf_rib.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ee/50_years_saf_rib.png 1.5x" data-file-width="72" data-file-height="30" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jubilee_Medal_%2250_Years_of_the_Armed_Forces_of_the_USSR%22" title="Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"">Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"</a> (1968) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:%D0%98%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D1%88%D0%B0%D1%88%D0%BA%D0%B0.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/%D0%98%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D1%88%D0%B0%D1%88%D0%BA%D0%B0.png/44px-%D0%98%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D1%88%D0%B0%D1%88%D0%BA%D0%B0.png" decoding="async" width="44" height="31" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/%D0%98%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D1%88%D0%B0%D1%88%D0%BA%D0%B0.png/66px-%D0%98%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D1%88%D0%B0%D1%88%D0%BA%D0%B0.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/%D0%98%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D1%88%D0%B0%D1%88%D0%BA%D0%B0.png 2x" data-file-width="77" data-file-height="55" /></a></span> </td> <td>Honorary weapon – sword inscribed with golden national emblem of the Soviet Union (22 February 1968) </td></tr> </tbody></table> <dl><dt>Foreign</dt></dl> <table> <tbody><tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:OrderOfThePeople%27sRepublicOfBulgariaRibbon.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/OrderOfThePeople%27sRepublicOfBulgariaRibbon.jpg/60px-OrderOfThePeople%27sRepublicOfBulgariaRibbon.jpg" decoding="async" width="60" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/OrderOfThePeople%27sRepublicOfBulgariaRibbon.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="72" data-file-height="30" /></a></span> </td> <td>Order of the People's Republic of Bulgaria, 1st class, twice (<a href="/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_Bulgaria" title="People's Republic of Bulgaria">Bulgaria</a>) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:OrderOfGeorgiDimitrovRibbon.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/OrderOfGeorgiDimitrovRibbon.jpg/60px-OrderOfGeorgiDimitrovRibbon.jpg" decoding="async" width="60" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/OrderOfGeorgiDimitrovRibbon.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="72" data-file-height="30" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Order_of_Georgi_Dimitrov" title="Order of Georgi Dimitrov">Order of Georgi Dimitrov</a> (Bulgaria) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sino_Soviet_Friendship_Ribbon.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Sino_Soviet_Friendship_Ribbon.svg/60px-Sino_Soviet_Friendship_Ribbon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Sino_Soviet_Friendship_Ribbon.svg/90px-Sino_Soviet_Friendship_Ribbon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Sino_Soviet_Friendship_Ribbon.svg/120px-Sino_Soviet_Friendship_Ribbon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="830" data-file-height="279" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Medal_of_Sino-Soviet_Friendship" title="Medal of Sino-Soviet Friendship">Medal of Sino-Soviet Friendship</a> (<a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a>) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Gold_Star_Hero_CSSR.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Gold_Star_Hero_CSSR.png/20px-Gold_Star_Hero_CSSR.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="38" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Gold_Star_Hero_CSSR.png/30px-Gold_Star_Hero_CSSR.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Gold_Star_Hero_CSSR.png/40px-Gold_Star_Hero_CSSR.png 2x" data-file-width="99" data-file-height="190" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hero_of_the_Czechoslovak_Socialist_Republic" title="Hero of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic">Hero of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic</a> (<a href="/wiki/Czechoslovakia" title="Czechoslovakia">Czechoslovakia</a>) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Cs2okg.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Cs2okg.png/60px-Cs2okg.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Cs2okg.png/90px-Cs2okg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/Cs2okg.png 2x" data-file-width="114" data-file-height="30" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Order_of_Klement_Gottwald" title="Order of Klement Gottwald">Order of Klement Gottwald</a> (Czechoslovakia) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:TCH_CS_Vojensky_Rad_Bileho_Lva_1st_(1945)_BAR.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/TCH_CS_Vojensky_Rad_Bileho_Lva_1st_%281945%29_BAR.svg/60px-TCH_CS_Vojensky_Rad_Bileho_Lva_1st_%281945%29_BAR.svg.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/TCH_CS_Vojensky_Rad_Bileho_Lva_1st_%281945%29_BAR.svg/90px-TCH_CS_Vojensky_Rad_Bileho_Lva_1st_%281945%29_BAR.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/TCH_CS_Vojensky_Rad_Bileho_Lva_1st_%281945%29_BAR.svg/120px-TCH_CS_Vojensky_Rad_Bileho_Lva_1st_%281945%29_BAR.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="218" data-file-height="60" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Military_Order_of_the_White_Lion" title="Military Order of the White Lion">Military Order of the White Lion</a> "For Victory", 1st class (Czechoslovakia) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Czechoslovak_War_Cross_1939-1945_Ribbon.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Czechoslovak_War_Cross_1939-1945_Ribbon.png/60px-Czechoslovak_War_Cross_1939-1945_Ribbon.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Czechoslovak_War_Cross_1939-1945_Ribbon.png/90px-Czechoslovak_War_Cross_1939-1945_Ribbon.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Czechoslovak_War_Cross_1939-1945_Ribbon.png 2x" data-file-width="106" data-file-height="30" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Czechoslovak_War_Cross_1939%E2%80%931945" title="Czechoslovak War Cross 1939–1945">War Cross 1939–1945</a> (Czechoslovakia) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Medal_for_Strngthening_Brotherhood_in_Arms_1_kl.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Medal_for_Strngthening_Brotherhood_in_Arms_1_kl.png/60px-Medal_for_Strngthening_Brotherhood_in_Arms_1_kl.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="18" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Medal_for_Strngthening_Brotherhood_in_Arms_1_kl.png/90px-Medal_for_Strngthening_Brotherhood_in_Arms_1_kl.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Medal_for_Strngthening_Brotherhood_in_Arms_1_kl.png 2x" data-file-width="100" data-file-height="30" /></a></span> </td> <td>Medal “For Strengthening Friendship in Arms”, Golden class (Czechoslovakia) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:TCH_CS_voj_pametni_medaile_(SSSR)_BAR.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/TCH_CS_voj_pametni_medaile_%28SSSR%29_BAR.svg/60px-TCH_CS_voj_pametni_medaile_%28SSSR%29_BAR.svg.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/TCH_CS_voj_pametni_medaile_%28SSSR%29_BAR.svg/90px-TCH_CS_voj_pametni_medaile_%28SSSR%29_BAR.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/TCH_CS_voj_pametni_medaile_%28SSSR%29_BAR.svg/120px-TCH_CS_voj_pametni_medaile_%28SSSR%29_BAR.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="218" data-file-height="60" /></a></span> </td> <td>Military Commemorative Medal with 'USSR' clasp (Czechoslovakia) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:FIN_Order_of_the_Lion_of_Finland_4Class_BAR.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/FIN_Order_of_the_Lion_of_Finland_4Class_BAR.png/60px-FIN_Order_of_the_Lion_of_Finland_4Class_BAR.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/FIN_Order_of_the_Lion_of_Finland_4Class_BAR.png/90px-FIN_Order_of_the_Lion_of_Finland_4Class_BAR.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/FIN_Order_of_the_Lion_of_Finland_4Class_BAR.png/120px-FIN_Order_of_the_Lion_of_Finland_4Class_BAR.png 2x" data-file-width="218" data-file-height="60" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Lion_of_Finland" title="Order of the Lion of Finland">Order of the Lion of Finland</a>, Knight, 1st class (<a href="/wiki/Finland" title="Finland">Finland</a>) </td></tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Order_of_Karl_Marx" title="Order of Karl Marx">Order of Karl Marx</a> (<a href="/wiki/East_Germany" title="East Germany">East Germany</a>) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Patriotic_Order_of_Merit_GDR_ribbon_bar_gold.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Patriotic_Order_of_Merit_GDR_ribbon_bar_gold.png/60px-Patriotic_Order_of_Merit_GDR_ribbon_bar_gold.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="38" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/Patriotic_Order_of_Merit_GDR_ribbon_bar_gold.png 1.5x" data-file-width="87" data-file-height="55" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Patriotic_Order_of_Merit" title="Patriotic Order of Merit">Patriotic Order of Merit in gold</a> (East Germany) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Hu3ofl0.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Hu3ofl0.png/60px-Hu3ofl0.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="22" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Hu3ofl0.png/90px-Hu3ofl0.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Hu3ofl0.png/120px-Hu3ofl0.png 2x" data-file-width="126" data-file-height="46" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Flag_of_the_Republic_of_Hungary" class="mw-redirect" title="Order of the Flag of the Republic of Hungary">Order of the Flag of the Republic of Hungary</a> (<a href="/wiki/Hungarian_People%27s_Republic" title="Hungarian People's Republic">Hungary</a>) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:HUN_Order_of_Merit_of_the_HPR_1kl_BAR.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/HUN_Order_of_Merit_of_the_HPR_1kl_BAR.png/60px-HUN_Order_of_Merit_of_the_HPR_1kl_BAR.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/HUN_Order_of_Merit_of_the_HPR_1kl_BAR.png/90px-HUN_Order_of_Merit_of_the_HPR_1kl_BAR.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/HUN_Order_of_Merit_of_the_HPR_1kl_BAR.png/120px-HUN_Order_of_Merit_of_the_HPR_1kl_BAR.png 2x" data-file-width="723" data-file-height="300" /></a></span> </td> <td>Order of Merit of the Hungarian People's Republic, 1st class (Hungary) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:HUN_Order_of_Merit_of_the_Hungarian_People%27s_Republic_BAR.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/HUN_Order_of_Merit_of_the_Hungarian_People%27s_Republic_BAR.png/60px-HUN_Order_of_Merit_of_the_Hungarian_People%27s_Republic_BAR.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/HUN_Order_of_Merit_of_the_Hungarian_People%27s_Republic_BAR.png/90px-HUN_Order_of_Merit_of_the_Hungarian_People%27s_Republic_BAR.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/HUN_Order_of_Merit_of_the_Hungarian_People%27s_Republic_BAR.png/120px-HUN_Order_of_Merit_of_the_Hungarian_People%27s_Republic_BAR.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="275" /></a></span> </td> <td>Order of Merit of the Hungarian People's Republic, 5th class (Hungary) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Order_of_the_Two_Rivers_-_Military_(Iraq)_-_ribbon_bar.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Order_of_the_Two_Rivers_-_Military_%28Iraq%29_-_ribbon_bar.png/60px-Order_of_the_Two_Rivers_-_Military_%28Iraq%29_-_ribbon_bar.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Order_of_the_Two_Rivers_-_Military_%28Iraq%29_-_ribbon_bar.png/90px-Order_of_the_Two_Rivers_-_Military_%28Iraq%29_-_ribbon_bar.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Order_of_the_Two_Rivers_-_Military_%28Iraq%29_-_ribbon_bar.png/120px-Order_of_the_Two_Rivers_-_Military_%28Iraq%29_-_ribbon_bar.png 2x" data-file-width="218" data-file-height="60" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Two_Rivers" title="Order of the Two Rivers">Order of the Two Rivers</a>, military division (<a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a>) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:OrdenSuheBator.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/OrdenSuheBator.png/60px-OrdenSuheBator.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/OrdenSuheBator.png 1.5x" data-file-width="70" data-file-height="29" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Order_of_Sukhbaatar" title="Order of Sukhbaatar">Order of Sukhbaatar</a>, twice (<a href="/wiki/Mongolian_People%27s_Republic" title="Mongolian People's Republic">Mongolia</a>) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Med_XXXth_anniversary_of_chalkin_gol_victory_rib.PNG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Med_XXXth_anniversary_of_chalkin_gol_victory_rib.PNG/60px-Med_XXXth_anniversary_of_chalkin_gol_victory_rib.PNG" decoding="async" width="60" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e7/Med_XXXth_anniversary_of_chalkin_gol_victory_rib.PNG 1.5x" data-file-width="72" data-file-height="30" /></a></span> </td> <td>Medal "30 Years of the Victory in Khalkhin-Gol" (Mongolia) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:POL_Virtuti_Militari_Wielki_BAR.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/POL_Virtuti_Militari_Wielki_BAR.svg/60px-POL_Virtuti_Militari_Wielki_BAR.svg.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/POL_Virtuti_Militari_Wielki_BAR.svg/90px-POL_Virtuti_Militari_Wielki_BAR.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/POL_Virtuti_Militari_Wielki_BAR.svg/120px-POL_Virtuti_Militari_Wielki_BAR.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="218" data-file-height="60" /></a></span> </td> <td>Grand Cross of the <a href="/wiki/Virtuti_Militari" title="Virtuti Militari">Virtuti Militari</a> (<a href="/wiki/Polish_People%27s_Republic" title="Polish People's Republic">Poland</a>) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:POL_Polonia_Restituta_Wielki_BAR.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/POL_Polonia_Restituta_Wielki_BAR.svg/60px-POL_Polonia_Restituta_Wielki_BAR.svg.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/POL_Polonia_Restituta_Wielki_BAR.svg/90px-POL_Polonia_Restituta_Wielki_BAR.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/POL_Polonia_Restituta_Wielki_BAR.svg/120px-POL_Polonia_Restituta_Wielki_BAR.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="218" data-file-height="60" /></a></span> </td> <td>Grand Cross of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Polonia_Restituta" title="Order of Polonia Restituta">Order of Polonia Restituta</a> (Poland) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:POL_Polonia_Restituta_Komandorski_BAR.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/POL_Polonia_Restituta_Komandorski_BAR.svg/60px-POL_Polonia_Restituta_Komandorski_BAR.svg.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/POL_Polonia_Restituta_Komandorski_BAR.svg/90px-POL_Polonia_Restituta_Komandorski_BAR.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/POL_Polonia_Restituta_Komandorski_BAR.svg/120px-POL_Polonia_Restituta_Komandorski_BAR.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="218" data-file-height="60" /></a></span> </td> <td>Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (Poland) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:POL_Order_Krzy%C5%BCa_Grunwaldu_2_Klasy_BAR.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/POL_Order_Krzy%C5%BCa_Grunwaldu_2_Klasy_BAR.svg/60px-POL_Order_Krzy%C5%BCa_Grunwaldu_2_Klasy_BAR.svg.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/POL_Order_Krzy%C5%BCa_Grunwaldu_2_Klasy_BAR.svg/90px-POL_Order_Krzy%C5%BCa_Grunwaldu_2_Klasy_BAR.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/POL_Order_Krzy%C5%BCa_Grunwaldu_2_Klasy_BAR.svg/120px-POL_Order_Krzy%C5%BCa_Grunwaldu_2_Klasy_BAR.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="218" data-file-height="60" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Cross_of_Grunwald" title="Order of the Cross of Grunwald">Order of the Cross of Grunwald</a>, 2nd class (Poland)<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:POL_Medal_za_Odr%C4%99_Nys%C4%99_i_Ba%C5%82tyk_BAR.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/POL_Medal_za_Odr%C4%99_Nys%C4%99_i_Ba%C5%82tyk_BAR.svg/60px-POL_Medal_za_Odr%C4%99_Nys%C4%99_i_Ba%C5%82tyk_BAR.svg.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/POL_Medal_za_Odr%C4%99_Nys%C4%99_i_Ba%C5%82tyk_BAR.svg/90px-POL_Medal_za_Odr%C4%99_Nys%C4%99_i_Ba%C5%82tyk_BAR.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/POL_Medal_za_Odr%C4%99_Nys%C4%99_i_Ba%C5%82tyk_BAR.svg/120px-POL_Medal_za_Odr%C4%99_Nys%C4%99_i_Ba%C5%82tyk_BAR.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="218" data-file-height="60" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Medal_%22For_Oder,_Neisse_and_the_Baltic%22" class="mw-redirect" title="Medal "For Oder, Neisse and the Baltic"">Medal "For Oder, Neisse and the Baltic"</a> (Poland) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:POL_Za_Warszaw%C4%99_1939-1945_BAR.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/POL_Za_Warszaw%C4%99_1939-1945_BAR.svg/60px-POL_Za_Warszaw%C4%99_1939-1945_BAR.svg.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/POL_Za_Warszaw%C4%99_1939-1945_BAR.svg/90px-POL_Za_Warszaw%C4%99_1939-1945_BAR.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/POL_Za_Warszaw%C4%99_1939-1945_BAR.svg/120px-POL_Za_Warszaw%C4%99_1939-1945_BAR.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="218" data-file-height="60" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Medal_%22For_Warsaw_1939-1945%22" class="mw-redirect" title="Medal "For Warsaw 1939-1945"">Medal "For Warsaw 1939-1945"</a> (Poland) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:POL_Medal_Zwyci%C4%99stwa_i_Wolno%C5%9Bci_BAR.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/POL_Medal_Zwyci%C4%99stwa_i_Wolno%C5%9Bci_BAR.svg/60px-POL_Medal_Zwyci%C4%99stwa_i_Wolno%C5%9Bci_BAR.svg.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/POL_Medal_Zwyci%C4%99stwa_i_Wolno%C5%9Bci_BAR.svg/90px-POL_Medal_Zwyci%C4%99stwa_i_Wolno%C5%9Bci_BAR.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/POL_Medal_Zwyci%C4%99stwa_i_Wolno%C5%9Bci_BAR.svg/120px-POL_Medal_Zwyci%C4%99stwa_i_Wolno%C5%9Bci_BAR.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="218" data-file-height="60" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Medal_of_Victory_and_Freedom_1945" title="Medal of Victory and Freedom 1945">Medal of Victory and Freedom 1945</a> (Poland) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:POL_Odznaka_Braterstwa_Broni_BAR.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/POL_Odznaka_Braterstwa_Broni_BAR.png/60px-POL_Odznaka_Braterstwa_Broni_BAR.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/POL_Odznaka_Braterstwa_Broni_BAR.png/90px-POL_Odznaka_Braterstwa_Broni_BAR.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/POL_Odznaka_Braterstwa_Broni_BAR.png/120px-POL_Odznaka_Braterstwa_Broni_BAR.png 2x" data-file-width="218" data-file-height="60" /></a></span> </td> <td>Brotherhood of Arms Medal (Poland) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:ROM_Ordinul_Steaua_Republicii_Populare_Rom%C3%A2ne_clasa_I_BAR.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/ROM_Ordinul_Steaua_Republicii_Populare_Rom%C3%A2ne_clasa_I_BAR.svg/60px-ROM_Ordinul_Steaua_Republicii_Populare_Rom%C3%A2ne_clasa_I_BAR.svg.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/ROM_Ordinul_Steaua_Republicii_Populare_Rom%C3%A2ne_clasa_I_BAR.svg/90px-ROM_Ordinul_Steaua_Republicii_Populare_Rom%C3%A2ne_clasa_I_BAR.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/ROM_Ordinul_Steaua_Republicii_Populare_Rom%C3%A2ne_clasa_I_BAR.svg/120px-ROM_Ordinul_Steaua_Republicii_Populare_Rom%C3%A2ne_clasa_I_BAR.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="144" data-file-height="60" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Star_of_the_Romanian_Socialist_Republic" title="Order of the Star of the Romanian Socialist Republic">Order of the Star of the Romanian Socialist Republic</a>, 1st class (<a href="/wiki/Romanian_People%27s_Republic" class="mw-redirect" title="Romanian People's Republic">Romania</a>) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Order_23_august_1_kl_rib.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Order_23_august_1_kl_rib.png/60px-Order_23_august_1_kl_rib.png" decoding="async" width="60" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Order_23_august_1_kl_rib.png/90px-Order_23_august_1_kl_rib.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Order_23_august_1_kl_rib.png 2x" data-file-width="109" data-file-height="30" /></a></span> </td> <td>Order "August 23" (Romania) </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_honors">Other honors</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Andrei_Grechko&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Other honors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Alej_hrdinov_Andrej_Antonovic_Gre%C4%8Dko.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Alej_hrdinov_Andrej_Antonovic_Gre%C4%8Dko.jpg/220px-Alej_hrdinov_Andrej_Antonovic_Gre%C4%8Dko.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="277" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Alej_hrdinov_Andrej_Antonovic_Gre%C4%8Dko.jpg/330px-Alej_hrdinov_Andrej_Antonovic_Gre%C4%8Dko.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Alej_hrdinov_Andrej_Antonovic_Gre%C4%8Dko.jpg/440px-Alej_hrdinov_Andrej_Antonovic_Gre%C4%8Dko.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1361" data-file-height="1711" /></a><figcaption>Bronze bust of Grechko at the Alley of Heroes Monument</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Bronze busts honoring Grechko were installed in his hometown at the <a href="/wiki/Kuybyshevo,_Rostov_Oblast" title="Kuybyshevo, Rostov Oblast">Kuibyshevo</a> in <a href="/wiki/Rostov_Oblast" title="Rostov Oblast">Rostov Oblast</a> of Russia and Alley of Heroes Monument in <a href="/wiki/Slovakia" title="Slovakia">Slovakia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:M_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:M-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Following his death in 1976, the <a href="/wiki/Kuznetsov_Naval_Academy" title="Kuznetsov Naval Academy">Order of Lenin and Ushakov Naval Academy</a> was renamed to <b>Order of Lenin and Ushakov Marshal of the Soviet Union A.A. Grechko Naval Academy</b> in honor of him. In 1990, the academy's name was changed to honor <a href="/wiki/Admiral_of_the_Fleet_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union">Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union</a> <a href="/wiki/Nikolai_Kuznetsov_(admiral)" title="Nikolai Kuznetsov (admiral)">Nikolai Kuznetsov</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:GT_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:GT-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In 1976, part of the former Mozhayskoye Highway in Moscow from <a href="/wiki/Aleksey_Yermolov_(general)" class="mw-redirect" title="Aleksey Yermolov (general)">General Yermolov</a> Street to Aminyevskoye Highway was named Marshal Grechko Avenue.<sup id="cite_ref-:GT_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:GT-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>A secondary school in Kuibyshevo was named in honor of Grechko.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>An <a href="/wiki/Ore-bulk-oil_carrier" title="Ore-bulk-oil carrier">ore-bulk-oil carrier</a> and <a href="/wiki/Oil_tanker" title="Oil tanker">oil tanker</a> of the Novorossiysk Shipping Company were named in honor of him.</li> <li>Memorial plaques honoring Grechko were installed on the former headquarters of the <a href="/wiki/Kiev_Military_District" title="Kiev Military District">Kiev Military District</a> and former building of the <a href="/wiki/Military_Academy_of_the_General_Staff_of_the_Armed_Forces_of_Russia" title="Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia">Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia</a> in Moscow.<sup id="cite_ref-:M_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:M-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Streets are named after him in: <ul><li>Russia: <a href="/wiki/Krymsk" title="Krymsk">Krymsk</a><sup id="cite_ref-:M_26-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:M-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine">Ukraine</a>: <a href="/wiki/Sloviansk" title="Sloviansk">Sloviansk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rovenky" title="Rovenky">Rovenky</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dnipro" title="Dnipro">Dnipro</a>, <a href="/wiki/Khmelnytsky" class="mw-redirect" title="Khmelnytsky">Khmelnytsky</a> and <a href="/wiki/Shostka" title="Shostka">Shostka</a><sup id="cite_ref-:M_26-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:M-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uzbekistan" title="Uzbekistan">Uzbekistan</a>: <a href="/wiki/Nukus" title="Nukus">Nukus</a> <ul><li>As part of the <a href="/wiki/Decommunization_in_Ukraine" title="Decommunization in Ukraine">decommunization laws in Ukraine</a>, Greckho Streets in <a href="/wiki/Zhytomyr" title="Zhytomyr">Zhytomyr</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kyiv" title="Kyiv">Kyiv</a> were renamed to honor <a href="/wiki/Vsevolod_Petriv" title="Vsevolod Petriv">Vsevolod Petriv</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ivan_Vyhovsky" title="Ivan Vyhovsky">Ivan Vyhovsky</a> respectively.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Selected_works">Selected works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Andrei_Grechko&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Selected works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Great Feat of the Soviet People</i> (1970)</li> <li><i>Battle for the Caucasus</i> (1971)</li> <li><i>Through the Carpathians</i> (1972)</li> <li><i>Liberation of Kiev</i> (1973)</li> <li><i>Liberation Mission of the Soviet Armed Forces in the Second World War</i> (1975)</li> <li><i>Years of War 1941—1943</i> (1976)</li> <li><i>The Armed Forces of the Soviet Union</i> (1977)</li></ul> <p><small>Source:<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></small> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Andrei_Grechko&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span 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<ul><li><a href="/wiki/RYAN" class="mw-redirect" title="RYAN">RYAN</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007" title="Korean Air Lines Flight 007">Korean Air Lines Flight 007</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alarm_incident" title="1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident">1983 false nuclear alarm incident</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Able_Archer_83" title="Able Archer 83">Able Archer 83</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uzbek_cotton_scandal" title="Uzbek cotton scandal">Uzbek cotton scandal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1984_Summer_Olympics_boycott" title="1984 Summer Olympics boycott">1984 Summer Olympics boycott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Friendship_Games" title="Friendship Games">Friendship Games</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Politburo members<br /> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Presidium_of_the_22nd_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Presidium of the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">22nd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Politburo_of_the_23rd_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Politburo of the 23rd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">23rd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Politburo_of_the_24th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Politburo of the 24th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">24th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Politburo_of_the_25th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Politburo of the 25th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">25th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Politburo_of_the_26th_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Politburo of the 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">26th</a></li></ul></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <li><a href="/wiki/Heydar_Aliyev" title="Heydar Aliyev">Aliyev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yuri_Andropov" title="Yuri Andropov">Andropov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leonid_Brezhnev" title="Leonid Brezhnev">Brezhnev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Viktor_Chebrikov" title="Viktor Chebrikov">Chebrikov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Konstantin_Chernenko" title="Konstantin Chernenko">Chernenko</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pyotr_Demichev" title="Pyotr Demichev">Demichev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Dolgikh" title="Vladimir Dolgikh">Dolgikh</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leonid_Efremov&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Leonid Efremov (page does not exist)">Efremov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev" title="Mikhail Gorbachev">Gorbachev</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Grechko</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Viktor_Grishin" title="Viktor Grishin">Grishin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrei_Gromyko" title="Andrei Gromyko">Gromyko</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrei_Kirilenko_(politician)" title="Andrei Kirilenko (politician)">Kirilenko</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tikhon_Kiselyov" title="Tikhon Kiselyov">Kiselyov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dinmukhamed_Kunaev" title="Dinmukhamed Kunaev">Kunaev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexei_Kosygin" title="Alexei Kosygin">Kosygin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fyodor_Kulakov" title="Fyodor Kulakov">Kulakov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vasili_Kuznetsov_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Vasili Kuznetsov (politician)">Kuznetsov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pyotr_Masherov" title="Pyotr Masherov">Masherov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kirill_Mazurov" title="Kirill Mazurov">Mazurov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anastas_Mikoyan" title="Anastas Mikoyan">Mikoyan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vasil_Mzhavanadze" title="Vasil Mzhavanadze">Mzhavanadze</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arv%C4%ABds_Pel%C5%A1e" title="Arvīds Pelše">Pelše</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nikolai_Podgorny" title="Nikolai Podgorny">Podgorny</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dmitry_Polyansky" title="Dmitry Polyansky">Polyansky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boris_Ponomarev" title="Boris Ponomarev">Ponomarev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sharof_Rashidov" title="Sharof Rashidov">Rashidov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grigory_Romanov" title="Grigory Romanov">Romanov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Volodymyr_Shcherbytsky" title="Volodymyr Shcherbytsky">Shcherbytsky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Shelepin" title="Alexander Shelepin">Shelepin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Petro_Shelest" title="Petro Shelest">Shelest</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eduard_Shevardnadze" title="Eduard Shevardnadze">Shevardnadze</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nikolay_Shvernik" class="mw-redirect" title="Nikolay Shvernik">Shvernik</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Solomentsev" title="Mikhail Solomentsev">Solomentsev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Suslov" title="Mikhail Suslov">Suslov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nikolai_Tikhonov" title="Nikolai Tikhonov">Tikhonov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dmitriy_Ustinov" class="mw-redirect" title="Dmitriy Ustinov">Ustinov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gennady_Voronov" title="Gennady Voronov">Voronov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vitaly_Vorotnikov" title="Vitaly Vorotnikov">Vorotnikov</a></li> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_leaders_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="List of leaders of the Soviet Union">Leaders</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Triumvirate" title="Triumvirate">Troika</a> (<a href="/wiki/Leonid_Brezhnev" title="Leonid Brezhnev">Brezhnev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexei_Kosygin" title="Alexei Kosygin">Kosygin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nikolai_Podgorny" title="Nikolai Podgorny">Podgorny</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yuri_Andropov" title="Yuri Andropov">Yuri Andropov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Konstantin_Chernenko" title="Konstantin Chernenko">Konstantin Chernenko</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Governments_of_the_Soviet_Union" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Governments of the Soviet Union">Governments</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kosygin%27s_First_Government" title="Kosygin's First Government">Kosygin's 1st</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kosygin%27s_Second_Government" title="Kosygin's Second Government">2nd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kosygin%27s_Third_Government" title="Kosygin's Third Government">3rd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kosygin%27s_Fourth_Government" title="Kosygin's Fourth Government">4th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kosygin%27s_Fifth_Government" title="Kosygin's Fifth Government">5th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tikhonov%27s_First_Government" title="Tikhonov's First Government">Tikhonov's 1st</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tikhonov%27s_Second_Government" title="Tikhonov's Second Government">2nd</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">National economy</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Reforms</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/OGAS" title="OGAS">OGAS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1965_Soviet_economic_reform" title="1965 Soviet economic reform">1965</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1973_Soviet_economic_reform" title="1973 Soviet economic reform">1973</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1979_Soviet_economic_reform" title="1979 Soviet economic reform">1979</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Food_Programme" title="Food Programme">Food Programme</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1984_Soviet_economic_reform&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1984 Soviet economic reform (page does not exist)">1984</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Five-year_plans_for_the_national_economy_of_the_Soviet_Union" class="mw-redirect" title="Five-year plans for the national economy of the Soviet Union">Five-year plans</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eighth_five-year_plan_(Soviet_Union)" title="Eighth five-year plan (Soviet Union)">8th plan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ninth_five-year_plan_(Soviet_Union)" title="Ninth five-year plan (Soviet Union)">9th plan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tenth_five-year_plan_(Soviet_Union)" title="Tenth five-year plan (Soviet Union)">10th plan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eleventh_five-year_plan_(Soviet_Union)" 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Tikhonov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eduard_Shevardnadze" title="Eduard Shevardnadze">Eduard Shevardnadze</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev" title="Mikhail Gorbachev">Mikhail Gorbachev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tikhon_Kiselyov" title="Tikhon Kiselyov">Tikhon Kiselyov</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="24th_Politburo_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union_(1971–1976)104" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link 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</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">People's Commissar for the<br />Armed Forces<br />(1946)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Stalin" title="Joseph Stalin">Joseph Stalin</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Ministers of the Armed Forces<br />(1946–1950)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Stalin" title="Joseph Stalin">Joseph Stalin</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1946–47)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nikolai_Bulganin" title="Nikolai Bulganin">Nikolai Bulganin</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1947–49)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aleksandr_Vasilevsky" title="Aleksandr 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class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany<br />(1945–54)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Georgy_Zhukov" title="Georgy Zhukov">Georgy Zhukov</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1945–46)</span><sup>‡</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vasily_Sokolovsky" title="Vasily Sokolovsky">Vasily Sokolovsky</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1946–49)</span><sup>‡</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vasily_Chuikov" title="Vasily Chuikov">Vasily Chuikov</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1949–53)</span><sup>‡</sup></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Andrei Grechko</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1953–57)</span></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="3" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:GSSD-LOGO.svg" 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title="Matvei Zakharov">Matvei Zakharov</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1957–60)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ivan_Yakubovsky" title="Ivan Yakubovsky">Ivan Yakubovsky</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1960–61)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ivan_Konev" title="Ivan Konev">Ivan Konev</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1961–62)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ivan_Yakubovsky" title="Ivan Yakubovsky">Ivan Yakubovsky</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1962–65)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pyotr_Koshevoy" title="Pyotr Koshevoy">Pyotr Koshevoy</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1965–69)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Viktor_Kulikov" title="Viktor Kulikov">Viktor Kulikov</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1969–71)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Semyon_Kurkotkin" title="Semyon Kurkotkin">Semyon Kurkotkin</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1971–72)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yevgeny_Ivanovsky" title="Yevgeny Ivanovsky">Yevgeny Ivanovsky</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1972–80)</span></li> 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