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What are some names of awesome Russian generals?

Question by Tunips: Names of little known but exceptionally awesome Russian generals?
I play a russian-themed army in the miniature fantasy wargame Warmachine.
I want to name my big stompy robots after men (or battleships) of exceptional awesomeness. The game is fantasy, so I want to avoid any names too strongly linked with the real world. (Calling a biggest, stompiest robot “Stalin”, would, I suspect, be in bad taste)

Anyone know some appropriate names?
Wikipedia links appreciated.

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Answer by Seth
Leon Trotsky
Georgy Zhukov
Leonid Brezhnev

are three good ones i found.

Answer by I’M A COMPUTER!
chuikov…defeated von paulus at stalingrad.

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  1. upyr1 says

    I would not name any thing Stalin or Trotsky or any communist politican Modern Russians do have some pride in the World WAr II Military as well as the Tsarist military prior to world war I and their arespace fiugres
    Leonid Brezhnev
    and trotsky are bad choices
    The first Russian carrier was originaly suppsoed to be named the Brezhnev- but after Brezhnev died they named it and buillt it as Kiznetsov after Admiral Mikolai Kuznetsov the comander of the Russian navy in World War II
    and Trotsky as the communits viewed him as a mad man who would have started world war II and latter III if he had not been killed.
    Some lists-

    Alexander Lebed modern General
    Kazadup- Russias top ace
    Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov (1812 vrs napolean)
    Alexander Suvorov – known as the father of Russian military doctrine with
    He loved bayonete charges backed with artilery. He lieved in the late 18th century
    http://www.systemaspetsnaz.com/russian_military.htm
    Alexander Nevsky he’s famous for defeating the Germans in the 13th century and geting canonised for his latter life.
    I would not name a giant robot after him becuse his famous battle was faught a long a river during the spring- he picked a spot with the thinest ice he could find cut some more chunks away then had his men stand along one side of the banks when the germans came their armor was to heavy thehy fell through the ice and the Russian soldiers finsiehd the job.
    So I would name a counter messure to the giant robots Nevsky.
    Ivan Grozny (Ivan the Terible’s name in Russian Grozny means thunder

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