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Oka Gorodovikov
Soviet general

Oka Gorodovikov

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Soviet general
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Gender
Male
Place of birth
Don Host Oblast, Russian Empire
Place of death
Moscow, Russia
Age
81 years
Education
M.V. Frunze Military Academy
Awards
Order of Lenin
 
Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
 
Order of the Red Banner
 
Hero of the Soviet Union
 
Order of the Patriotic War 1st class
 
Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army"
 
Medal "For the Defence of Moscow"
 
Medal "For the Defence of Stalingrad"
 
Jubilee Medal "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy"
 
Jubilee Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
 
Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"
 
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Biography

Oka Ivanovich Gorodovikov (Russian: Ока Иванович Городовиков; 1 October [O.S. 19 September] 1879 in Mokraya Elmuta village, current Rostov Oblast – 26 February 1960 in Moscow) was a Kalmyk Red Army cavalry general.

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During July and August 1920, he commanded the 2nd Cavalry Army. He served as Inspector-General of Cavalry from 1938 to 1941, and as Deputy Commander of Cavalry from 1943 until his retirement in 1947. The town of Gorodovikovsk in his native Kalmykia was named after him in 1971.

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