Nikolai Ogarkov, Russian field marshal (born 1917)

Nikolai Ogarkov

Marshal of the Soviet Union

Nikolai Vasilyevich Ogarkov was a prominent Soviet military personality. He was promoted to Marshal of the Soviet Union in 1977. Between 1977 and 1984, he was Chief of the General Staff of the USSR. He became widely known in the West when he became the Soviet military's…