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About

Fourth-year college student majoring in Russian and international relations with a passion for military history. Areas of interest include the social and organizational history of the Soviet military, primarily focusing on the role of the Red Army in World War II. Using previously secret Soviet military documents and recent scholarly analysis, I seek to illuminate the lives of ordinary soldiers, who have previously remained faceless in Western historiography, and reduce uncritical repetition of propaganda by both sides in Eastern Front articles.

Major contributions include:

• Featured articles on the 15th Tank Corps and 2nd Red Banner Army, still the only articles on Soviet World War II units to reach featured status
• Nikopol–Krivoi Rog offensive and Odessa Offensive, using Soviet casualty reports to provide more accurate casualty estimates. To date, these recently available reports have not been exploited in secondary literature.
• More than 120 biographies of wartime Soviet commanders, including those assessed as failures in command, the repressed, and those rewarded for their performance, drawing on recently digitized performance assessments and personnel records to provide a more objective view. These include some whose biographies reveal the nature of wartime discipline:
  • Aleksandr Borisovich Rodionov, a division commander demoted for drunkenness, later killed in action
  • Aleksey Vlasenko, a division commander demoted for summarily executing subordinates
• Histories of Soviet rifle divisions incorporating archival documents to provide data on ethnicity and demographics of their personnel, such as 257th Rifle Division (November 1941 formation)

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1. Divisional Cavalry Regiment (New Zealand)
2. 5th Mechanised Corps (Soviet Union)
3. Mikhail Petrovich Petrov (general)
4. 15th Tank Corps
5. August Kork
6. 390th Rifle Division
7. Boris Snetkov
8. 41st Guards Rocket Division
9. 52nd Rocket Division
10. 17th Special Operations Squadron
11. 2nd Red Banner Army
12. 177th Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO
13. Nikopol–Krivoi Rog offensive
14. 57th Rifle Division
15. 116th Infantry Regiment (United States)
16. 102nd Division (Philippines)
17. Soviet cruiser Kronstadt
18. Soviet cruiser Admiral Nakhimov (1969)
19. Soviet cruiser Admiral Isakov
20. Soviet cruiser Admiral Makarov (1970)
21. Soviet cruiser Marshal Voroshilov
22. Soviet cruiser Admiral Oktyabrsky
23. South Australian Mounted Rifles
24. Battle of Elands River (1900) (with AustralianRupert)
25. 211th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
26. Soviet destroyer Moskva (with Sturmvogel 66)
27. USS Oberrender
28. HMS Escapade
29. Soviet destroyer Sposobny (1970)
30. Mikhail Timofeyevich Romanov
31. Soviet destroyer Nezamozhnik (with Sturmvogel 66)
32. No. 2 Squadron RCAF
33. No. 3 Squadron RCAF
34. Soviet destroyer Baku (with Sturmvogel 66)
35. Soviet destroyer Gnevny (1936) (with Sturmvogel 66)
36. Soviet destroyer Gordy (1937) (with Sturmvogel 66)
37. Soviet destroyer Storozhevoy (with Sturmvogel 66)
38. Soviet destroyer Silny (with Sturmvogel 66)
39. Soviet destroyer Strashny (with Sturmvogel 66)
40. Soviet destroyer Stoyky (1938) (with Sturmvogel 66)
41. 252nd Rifle Division (with Wreck Smurfy
42. Soviet destroyer Sposobny (1940) (with Sturmvogel 66)
43. Soviet destroyer Svobodny (1940) (with Sturmvogel 66)
44. Soviet destroyer Sovershenny (1940) (with Sturmvogel 66)
45. Soviet destroyer Smyshleny (1940) (with Sturmvogel 66)
46. Soviet destroyer Soobrazitelny (1940) (with Sturmvogel 66)
47. Russian destroyer Gadzhibey (with Sturmvogel 66)
48. Soviet destroyer Razyaryonny (1941) (with Sturmvogel 66)
49. Soviet destroyer Serdity (1940) (with Sturmvogel 66)
50. Soviet destroyer Shaumyan (with Sturmvogel 66)
51. Soviet destroyer Skory (1939) (with Sturmvogel 66)
52. Soviet destroyer Slavny (1939) (with Sturmvogel 66)
53. Soviet destroyer Smely (1939) (with Sturmvogel 66)
54. Soviet destroyer Statny (1939) (with Sturmvogel 66)
55. Soviet destroyer Strogy (1939) (with Sturmvogel 66)
56. Soviet destroyer Stroyny (with Sturmvogel 66)
57. Soviet destroyer Surovy (1940) (with Sturmvogel 66)
58. Soviet destroyer Svirepy (with Sturmvogel 66)
59. Soviet destroyer Tbilisi (with Sturmvogel 66)
60. 68th Mountain Rifle Division
61. USS O'Flaherty
62. 4th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment
63. Benjamin Lewis Hodge
64. Semyon Sakhnov
65. 13th Light Tank Brigade
66. 1st Louisiana Regulars Infantry Regiment
67. John Q. Loomis
68. 7th Alabama Infantry Regiment
69. 27th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment
70. John G. Coltart
71. Aleksandr Borisovich Rodionov
72. Grigory Panchenko
73. Ivan Kopyak
74. Konstantin Kulikov
75. Filipp Braylyan
76. Soviet destroyer Sokrushitelny (1937) (with Sturmvogel 66)
77. Aleksandr Maykov

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