Pavel Rychagov
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Pavel Vasilievich Rychagov was the Commander of the Soviet Air Forces for a brief time from 28 August 1940 to 14 April 1941. He was removed from that position shortly before Operation Barbarossa and t
Павел Васильевич Рычагов
Yakov Smushkevich
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Yakov Vladimirovich Smushkevich was the Commander of the Soviet Air Forces from 1939 to 1940 and the first Jewish Hero of the Soviet Union. Arrested shortly before the start of Operation Barbarossa on
Pavel Rychagov
…the Red Army Chief Military Council, a predecessor of the Stavka. Eventually, he was appointed Commander of the Air Force on 28 August 1940, succeeding Yakov Smushkevich. Shortly before Operation Barbarossa, Rychagov was removed from the position of Commander of the Air Force as part of the purge of the Red Army in 1941…
Yakov Smushkevich