Marshal Georgy Zhukov, Moscow - Statues of Historic Figures on Waymarking.com

Georgy Zhukov came from a peasant background and was an army conscript but during the 1920s and 1930s he rose through the ranks and in 1938 he was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union for his command the First Soviet Mongolian Army Group in a major victory during the Russian-Japan undeclared war 0f 1938-39.

He became the most prominent Soviet military commander of the Great Patriotic War, as World War II is known in Russia. He directed the defense of Moscow and Stalingrad and was instrumental in lifting the siege of Leningrad in 1944. He then led the soviet assault on Germany culminating in the capture of Berlin in 1945 and served as the first commander of the Soviet occupation zone in Germany. General Dwight Eisenhower, the supreme Allied commander in the West, was a great admirer of Zhukov, and the two toured the Soviet Union together in the immediate aftermath of the victory over Germany.

This large bronze equestrian statue, byVyacheslav Klykov, stands on Manezhnaya Ploschad, on the north side of the State Historical Museum in central Moscow. It was placed in 1995 to mark the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II.

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