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Vasily Chuikov commander

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Chuikov  commanded the 62nd Army at the Battle of Stalingrad and was put in charge of holding the west bank of the Volga.

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Vasily Chuikov

Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov (Russian: Васи́лий Ива́нович Чуйко́в; 12 February 1900 – 18 March 1982) was a Soviet lieutenant general in the Red Army during World War II, commander of the 62nd Army during the Battle of Stalingrad, twice Hero of the Soviet Union (1944, 1945), and after the war a Marshal of the Soviet Union.

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