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Andrei Antonovich Grechko (Russian: Андре́й Анто́нович Гре́чко, Ukrainian: Андрій Антонович Гречко; 17 October [O.S. 4 October] 1903 – 26 April 1976) was a Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union during the Cold War. He served as the Soviet Minister of Defence from 1967 to 1976.
Apr 27, 1976 · MOSCOW, April 26—Marshal Andrei Antonovich Grechko, the Soviet Minister of Defense and, for average Russians, the bridge between the celebrated Red Army of World War It and the modern Soviet...
Jun 15, 1971 · Andrei Antonovich Grechko who is 6 feet 4 inches tall and wears about a dozen rows of award ribbons on his uniform was born of Ukrainian peasant family in the village of Golodayevka (now...
Andrei Antonovich Grechko (əndrā´ əntô´nəvĬch grĕch´kō), 1903–76, Soviet army officer and minister of defense. As a World War II commander he took part in the liberation of the Caucasus, Ukraine, Czechoslovakia, and Poland.
Grechko's association with N. S. Khrushchev proba- bly began during Grechko's service in the First Ukrainian Front, of which Khrushchev was chief political advisor.. For the next eight years after the end of the war, Grechko commanded the Kiev Military District, Khrushchev's political stronghold, and also served as a member of the Ukrainian ...
For President Eisenhower, as for many of his contemporaries in East and West, the widespread rebellion against the oppressive Communist government in East Germany in the summer of 1953, suppressed only by a Soviet military crackdown, was a pivotal moment in the Cold War.
Deputy Minister of Defence 1967-1976. Opponent of piloted space programs.. 1961 March 31 - . Vostok preparations - . Nation: Russia. Related Persons: Grechko, Andrei, Korolev, Malinovskiy, Vershinin, Voronin, Zakharov. Program: Vostok. Flight: Vostok 1. Spacecraft: Vostok.
