Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny was a Russian and Soviet cavalryman, military commander during the Russian Civil War, Polish–Soviet War and World War II, and politician, who was a close political ally of
Budyonny in 1943
Kliment Voroshilov, Budyonny, Mikhail Frunze and Nikolai Bukharin with the 1st Cavalry Army in Novomoskovsk, 1921
Semyon Budyonny celebrates International Women's Day at the House of Unions on March 8, 1924.
Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov was a Soviet military leader who served as a top commander during World War II and achieved the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union. During World War II, Zhukov served as
Semyon Budyonny
…continued to enjoy Stalin's patronage and suffered no real punishment for the disaster in Kiev. Post-war career Budyonny (left), Stalin (center), and Georgy Zhukov (right) during the 1945 Moscow Victory Parade After the war, Budyonny was appointed deputy Minister of Agriculture of the USSR, responsible, among other…
Non-commissioned officer Georgy Zhukov, Russian Imperial Army, 1916
Zhukov as a regimental commander, 1920s
Graduates of the Leningrad Higher Cavalry School (1924/25). Standing in the third row (right to left): 1. Zhukov, 5. Rokossovsky.