Georgy Zhukov

Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov (;  – 18 Jun 1974), ialah seorang Marsyal Kesatuan Soviet dalam Tentera Merah Rusia semasa Perang Dunia Kedua, Zhukov mendapat reputasinya dengan kejayaan semasa bertempur menentang Jepun di Mongolia pada tahun 1939. Selepas pencerobohan Jerman terhadap Soviet Union, beliau memegang satu siri kedudukan pemerintah penting dalam mempertahankan Smolensk, Leningrad, dan akhirnya Moscow pada musim luruh 1941. Di gelar “Penyelamat Moscow,” beliau kemudiannya menjadi “Penyelamat Stalingrad”, memimpin pertahanan Soviet dan serangan balas menentang Tentera Darat Ke-6 Paulus. Zhukov kemudiannya memimpin serangan besar Rusia terhadap Ukraine, Poland, dan akhirnya Jerman. Tentera beliau menguasai Berlin pada 2 Mei 1945 dan pada 8 Mei Jerman menyerah kalah kepadanya.

Di antara kebanyakkan panglima perang terkemuka Perang Dunia II, Zhukov berada ditempat teratas kerana bilangan dan skala kemenangan yang besar, dan bakatnya dalam mengarah operasi dan strategi telah di akui oleh kebanyakkan orang. Ramai pemimpin tentera terkenal dunia seperti Bernard Montgomery dan Dwight D. Eisenhower mengiktiraf sumbangan besar Zhukov dalam banyak kemenangan penting Perang Dunia Kedua. Pencapaiannya dalam peperangan menjadi warisan berharga bagi pengetahuan tentera umat manusia, menggunakan pengaruh yang besar keatas Soviet dan seluruh teori ketenteraan dunia.

Pingat dan darjah kebesaran

Zhukov adalah penerima banyak pingat kebesaran. Paling utama beliau telah dikurniakan pingat Hero of the Soviet Union sebanyak empat kali. Selain daripada Zhukov, hanya Leonid Brezhnev merupakan penerima empat kali (itupun anugerah diri sendiri).

Zhukov ialah salah seorang daripada hanya tiga penerima yang mendapat darjah Order of Victory sebanyak dua kali. Beliau juga telah dianugerahkan penghormatan yang tinggi dari negara-negara lain. Senarai pingat adalah seperti di bawah.

Anugerah kebesaran Empayar Rusia 
Cross of St. George (kelas 3 dan 4)

Darjah dan pingat Soviet
Order of Victory (Serial No. 1, 10 April 1944 and Serial No. 5, 30 March 1945)
Bintang Emas Hero of the Soviet Union (29 Ogos 1939, 29 Julai 1944, 1 Jun 1945, 1 Disember 1956)
Order of Lenin (16 Ogos 1936, 29 Ogos 1939, 21 Februari 1945, 1 Disember 1956, 1 Disember 1966, 1 Disember 1971)
Order of the October Revolution (22 Februari 1968)
Order of the Red Banner (31 Ogos 1922, 3 November 1944, 20 Jun 1949)
Order of Suvorov, kelas 1 (Serial No. 1, 28 Januari 1943 and Serial No. 39, 28 Julai 1943)
Marshal's Star
Honorary weapon – sword inscribed with golden national emblem of the Soviet Union (22 January 1968)
 Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary since the Birth of Vladimir Il'ich Lenin"
Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army"
Medal "For the Defence of Moscow"
Medal "For the Defence of Leningrad"
Medal "For the Defence of Stalingrad"
Medal "For the Defence of the Caucasus"
Medal "For the Capture of Berlin"
Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Medal "For the Victory over Japan"
Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army"
Jubilee Medal "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy"
Jubilee Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"
Medal "In Commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of Leningrad"
Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"

Anugerah asing
Order of the Red Banner (Republik Rakyat Mongolia, 1939 dan 1942)
Order of the White Lion, Kelas 1 (Czechoslovakia, 1945)
Military Order of the White Lion "For Victory", Kelas 1 (Czechoslovakia, 1945)
Czechoslovak War Cross (Czechoslovakia, 1945)
Cross of Grunwald, Kelas 1 (Poland, 1945)
Grand Cross of the Virtuti Militari (Poland, 1945)
Chief Commander, Legion of Merit (AS, 1945)
Honorary Knight Grand Cross, Order of the Bath, (bahagian tentera) (UK, 1945)
Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour (Perancis, 1945)
Pingat "Untuk Warsaw 1939–1945" (Poland, 1946)
Pingat "Untuk Wilayah Oder, Nisu, dan Baltik" (Poland, 1946)
Pingat "Persahabatan China-Soviet", (China, 1953 and 1956)
Order of Freedom (SFR Yugoslavia, 1956)
Order of Military Merit, Kelas 1 (Grand Cross of the Officer) (Mesir, 1956)
Pingat Garibaldi (Itali, 1956)
Honorary Italian Partisan (Itali, 1956)
Commander's Cross with Star of the Polonia Restituta, (Poland, 1968, and Commander's Cross, 1973)
Order of Sukhbaatar (Republik Rakyat Mongolia, 1968, 1969, 1971)
Hero of the Mongolian People's Republic (Republik Rakyat Mongolia, 1969)
Croix de guerre (Perancis)
Medal "30 year anniversary of the Battle of Khalkhin Gol" (Mongolian People's Republic, 1969)
Medal "50 years of the Mongolian People's Republic" (Mongolian People's Republic, 1971)
Medal "50 years of the Mongolian People's Army" (Mongolian People's Republic, 1971)
Medal "For Victory over Japan" (Mongolian People's Republic)
Medal "to the 90th anniversary of the birth of Georgiy Dimitrov" (Bulgaria)
Medal "25 years of the Bulgarian People's Army" (Bulgaria)

Bibliografi

Bacaan lanjut
 Goldman, Stuart D. Nomonhan 1939; The Red Army's Victory That Shaped World War II. 2012, Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-59114-329-1.
 Granville, Johanna, trans., "Soviet Archival Documents on the Hungarian Revolution, 24 October – 4 November 1956",
Cold War International History Project Bulletin, no. 5 (Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, Washington, DC), Spring, 1995, pp. 22–23, 29–34.

Pautan luar 

 Shadow of Victory and Take Words Back, books by Viktor Suvorov, highly critical of Zhukov
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Kematian 1974
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