Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov.
Marshal of the Soviet Union; hero of World War II. He was the most important Russian military leader of World War II.
Georgy Zhukov was conscripted into the Imperial Russian Army during the Great War. In 1918, he served as a Red Army cavalry commander in the Russian Civil War. Between the wars, Zhukov furthered his education, graduating from the Frunze Military Academy in 1931.