Lev Mikhaylovich Dovator was a famous Soviet major general who was killed in action during World War II and posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
Lev Dovator
Lev Dovator (upper left) on the Soviet stamp published during the war. The text says "Death to German occupiers!"
Guards Major General L.M. Dovator with his cavalrymen
The M. V. Frunze Military Academy, or in full the Military Order of Lenin and the October Revolution, Red Banner, Order of Suvorov Academy in the name of M. V. Frunze, was a military academy of the Soviet and later the Russian Armed Forces.
Frunze Military Academy
Mikhail Frunze, a posthumous 1929 portrait by Isaak Brodsky. Commandant of the academy between 1924 and 1925, and subsequently its namesake.
Georgy Zhukov and Ivan Konev in 1943, both graduates of the academy
Soviet troops and officers in 1981. By the 1980s many of the higher-ranking officers in the Soviet Ground Forces were graduates of the academy