In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Afanasyevich and the family name is Glazunov.
Vasily Afanasyevich Glazunov
Native name
Василий Афанасьевич Глазунов
Born
1 January [O.S. 20 December 1895] 1896 Varvarovka village, Serdobsky Uyezd, Saratov Governorate, Russian Empire
Died
26 June 1967 Moscow, Soviet Union
Buried
Novodevichy Cemetery
Allegiance
Russian Empire Soviet Union
Service/branch
Russian Imperial Army, Red Army, Soviet airborne
Years of service
1915-1918, 1918-1954
Rank
Lieutenant general
Commands held
59th Rifle Division
3rd Airborne Corps
Soviet airborne
4th Guards Rifle Corps
125th Rifle Corps
Battles/wars
World War I
Brusilov Offensive
Russian Civil War
World War II
Battle of Kiev
Battles of Rzhev
Nikopol–Krivoi Rog Offensive
Odessa Offensive
Vistula-Oder Offensive
Berlin Offensive
Awards
Hero of the Soviet Union (twice) Order of Lenin (3) Order of the Red Banner (3) Order of Suvorov 2nd class Order of Kutuzov 2nd class
Vasily Afanasyevich Glazunov (Russian: Василий Афанасьевич Глазунов; 1 January [O.S. 20 December 1895] 1896– 27 June 1967) was a Soviet lieutenant general, who was the first commander of the Soviet airborne forces (VDV). He was twice awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union.[1][2]
^"Vasily Glazunov". Герои страны ("Heroes of the Country") (in Russian).
^Герои Советского Союза: Абаев-Любичев [Heroes of the Soviet Union] (in Russian). Voenizdat. 1987-01-01.
Vasily Afanasyevich Glazunov (Russian: Василий Афанасьевич Глазунов; 1 January [O.S. 20 December 1895] 1896– 27 June 1967) was a Soviet lieutenant general...
Soviet Airborne Forces owe much to the efforts of one man, Army General Vasily Margelov, so much so that the abbreviation of VDV in the Airborne Forces...
General Nikolay Gagen Lieutenant General Mikhail Sharokhin Lieutenant General Vasily Glagolev The 31st Guards Rifle Corps was in the army's second echelon at...
Vasily Vitalyevich Shulgin (Russian: Василий Витальевич Шульгин; Ukrainian: Василь Віталійович Шульгін; 13 January 1878 – 15 February 1976), also known...
Second World War. Among the other officers who were commemorated are VasilyGlazunov and Yuri Rykachev. In several texts, Grigoriy is referred to as "Hirsch"...
painters Nicholas Roerich and Konstantin Korovin, composers Alexander Glazunov and Nikolai Tcherepnin, regisseurs Vsevolod Meyerhold[citation needed]...
during its existence: Kombrig (promoted to Major General 4 June 1940) VasilyGlazunov (3 July 1939–23 June 1941) Colonel (promoted to Major General 8 December...
Dmitry Kabalevsky (1904–1987) Murad Kajlayev (born 1931) Vasily Kalafati (1869–1942) Vasily Kalinnikov (1866–1901) Sandor Kalloś (born 1935) Alfrēds Kalniņš...
Alexander Glazunov, were not commented on by other critics, but according to a memoir from Alexander Ossovsky, a close friend of Rachmaninoff, Glazunov made...
World-renowned composers of the 20th century include Alexander Scriabin, Alexander Glazunov, Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitri Shostakovich, and later Edison...
Petersburg Conservatory. The director of the Conservatory was Alexander Glazunov, whose adopted daughter Tarnowsky later married. On graduation, Tarnowsky...
reporters ranging from Tchaikovsky's family members to composer Alexander Glazunov. Since 1979, one variation of the theory has gained some ground—a sentence...
Debussy, Sergei Prokofiev, Erik Satie, and Maurice Ravel, artists such as Vasily Kandinsky, Alexandre Benois, Pablo Picasso, and Henri Matisse, and costume...
the writer Maxim Gorky, the composer Alexander Glazunov the writer Aleksandr Kuprin; artists Vasily Polenov, Isaak Brodsky and Nicolai Fechin as well...
player Valery Gergiev, pianist, conductor Emil Gilels, pianist Alexander Glazunov, composer Mikhail Glinka, composer of Russlan and Ludmilla Nikolai Golovanov...
liberals”. Sharing some of the views of the “ soil people ” he patronized Ilya Glazunov and Vladimir Soloukhin. Demichev, on the contrary, set as his goal “the...
Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, 2 June 1909. Additional music by Alexander Glazunov, Mikhail Glinka, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Sergei Taneyev...
students of the St. Petersburg Conservatory and conducted by Alexander Glazunov. Other important premieres took place in 1917 at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow...
circle Tchaikovsky was already in touch. Rimsky-Korsakov, with Alexander Glazunov, Anatoly Lyadov and several other nationalistically-minded composers and...
broadcast in the "News and Views" program. The participants were Viktor Glazunov, Leonid Rassadin, Yuri Shalygin, Alexander Kushnir, Yuri Solton and Vladislav...
Global Information
Russian Empire
Soviet Union