Officer

Explore the lives of notable figures who have served as Officers, shaping history and society. Discover their achievements, influential roles, and contributions to public service.

Commander of the 4th Cavalry Division of the 1st Cavalry Army

Gendarme officer, major general

Nikolay Aksyutin

Soviet officer, participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union

Douglas Abbott Macgregor

Military theorist, retired US Army colonel, writer

Michael Bronstein

Participant of the Great Patriotic War, laureate of the USSR State Prize

Rafik Alydzhanov

Azerbaijani officer, National Hero of Azerbaijan

Grigoriy Ayrapetyan

Participant of the Polish campaign of the Red Army, Hero of the Soviet Union, lieutenant colonel

Frederick William Benteen

US Army officer, participant in the Civil War and Indian Wars

Sabyr Sarygozhin

Captain of the Russian Imperial Army

Soviet officer, participant of the Great Patriotic War

Mercedes O. Cubria

American military man originally from Cuba

Ralph Puckett Jr.

US Army officer

Hamzya Bogdanov

Hero of the Soviet Union, Guards Colonel

Eugeniy Erofeev

Russian officer, twice Knight of the Order of St. George

Julius Kuperjanov

Estonian military leader, lieutenant

Azerbaijani officer

Soviet officer, commander of the 7th battery of the 137th artillery regiment

Romanian officer, master of tank combat, participant in World War II

Vasiliy Koshelev

Participant of the Great Patriotic War

SS officer; SS Sturmbannführer (1944).

Paul William Bucha

Vietnam War Veteran

William Sitgreaves Cox

American military man.

German officer, participant in the First and Second World Wars, Brigadeführer and Major General of the SS troops, holder of the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves.

Ignat Artyomenko

Veteran of the Great Patriotic War

Non-commissioned officer of an SS tank unit

US Army officer, participant in the Civil War and Indian Wars

Vasiliy Ahmad Aliyev

Azerbaijani police officer, National Hero of Azerbaijan.

Japanese naval officer during the Meiji era

Joseph Pitty Couthouy

American naval officer, conchiologist, paleontologist

Hans Hermann Katte

Lieutenant of the Prussian army

Olga Ovcharenko

The first female officer of the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, accused of beating soldiers

Alexander-Valerian Anderson

Russian and Soviet military leader, reserve division commander (1936).

Gutsunaev Kazbulat

Officer of the Russian army, participant in the First World War and the Civil War

German officer, participant in World War II, lieutenant colonel

German tank ace of World War II

Deputy Director of the Department of Property Relations of the Russian Ministry of Defense

Nikolay Brozgol

Commander of the 24th Guards Separate Heavy Cannon Artillery Brigade, Hero of the Soviet Union, Guards Colonel

US Army officer and Confederate Army general

German submarine officer, lieutenant commander.

Alexey Otserklevich

Lieutenant Colonel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Head of the State Security Department of Ukraine

Commander of the 26th SS Division, then XVII SS Corps

Officer of the Russian Army, Guards Major

Cuban internationalist, a graduate of a Soviet orphanage, a soldier and officer in the Soviet Army.

Dmitriy Amilahvari

Officer of the French army, lieutenant colonel of the Foreign Legion

Valentin Vvedensky

Officer of the Russian Imperial Army

Captain Commander

Akiyama Saneyuki

Japanese military figure, officer of the Imperial Japanese Navy