Pictured: Twice Hero of the Soviet Union Colonel-General V. I. Chuikov (center) with General of the Army Andrey Yeremenko, 1945. Before...

Lieutenant-General V. I. Chuikov, Stalingrad, summer 1942. When considering topics to write about for this blog, one guiding principle is...

Pictured: Colonel Ivan Lyudnikov in Stalingrad; In the Commander's dugout, 62nd Army. From left to right: K. A. Gurov, V. I. Chuikov. N....

Pictured: Marshal V. I. Chuikov with I. G. Paderin (left), 1964. When I began researching Marshal Chuikov’s life and work in early 2020,...

Identifying the best person for a particular position is known in HR terms as employee placement . Organizational management success...

Pictured: Colonel-General V. I. Chuikov hunting in Germany, accompanied by his daughter Irina and his sister-in-law Vera (wife of Fedor),...

Pictured: Colonel-General V. I. Chuikov, Commander of the 62nd-8th Guards Army, 1943. Over the past year, I have shared various anecdotes...

Pictured: Marshal V. I. Chuikov (center) flanked by G. D. Protodyakonov to the left, and Soviet sniper V. Zaitsev and Yakov Pavlov (of...

Pictured: Lieutenant-General V. I. Chuikov, Stalingrad, 1943. Eighty-two years ago, during the summer of 1942, the Germans were engaged...

Pictured from left to right: adviser N.T. Fedorenko, military attaché N. V. Roshchin (Ruzankov), plenipotentiary A. S. Panyushkin, chief...

Pictured: Colonel-General V. I. Chuikov, Poland, 1945. In a previous blog entry, I focused on the supply chain situation leading up to...

Pictured: Group of military advisors in China, 1927. V. I. Chuikov is seated third from left, bottom row. In a previous blog entry , I...

Pictured: Marshal Chuikov’s obituary; photo of his gravesite and special carnations, taken 23 March 2022. Marshal Chuikov was a leader...

Pictured: General of the Army V. I. Chuikov and the President of the German Democratic Republic Wilhelm Pieck during Pieck’s 75th...

Pictured: Lieutenant-General V. I. Chuikov, Commander of the 62nd Army in Stalingrad, 1942. As a professor of business and leadership...

Pictured: Commander of the 62nd Army of the Stalingrad Front, Lieutenant-General V. I. Chuikov; Commander of the 64th Army,...

Pictured (clockwise): Photo of American and Red Army officers and soldiers meeting on the Elbe River near Torgau; Colonel-General V. I....

Pictured: Anatoly Merezhko at the age of 20 in 1941, a year before his participation in the battle for Stalingrad; A. Merezhko (far...

Pictured: Handwritten letter from Lieutenant-General V. I. Chuikov to his wife; Cover art for a book commemorating the 62nd Army and the...

Pictured: Colonel-General Chuikov’s 62nd (8th Guards) Army on the streets of Odessa in April 1944. A large group of Soviet soldiers,...