Atlas of Battles

commander, 4 engagements

Battles of Vasily Blyukher

Battles of Vasily Blyukher

Soviet marshal (1889–1938), 1890 to 1938

Vasily Blyukher is recorded as a commander at 4 placed engagements in the atlas between 1920 and 1938: 3 battles and 1 siege across 4 present-day countries, most in Ukraine (1), Russia (1), People's Republic of China (1). Taken in date order, the sites lie 8,139 km apart end to end, 2,713 km between engagements on average. Most belong to Russian Civil War (2), Soviet–Japanese border conflicts (1).

Siege of PerekopBattle of VolochayevkaBattle of LahasusuBattle of Lake KhasanSiege of PerekopBattle of VolochayevkaBattle of LahasusuBattle of Lake KhasanŌsakaSeoulTehranTaipeiBaghdadChengduÜrümqiKabulKyivTashkent2000 km45.499N, 84.076E
4 placed engagements, coloured by era. Present-day coastlines; ringed marks are the most widely documented.

Engagements by year

1920: 1 engagements1 in 19201922: 1 engagements1 in 19221929: 1 engagements1 in 19291938: 1 engagements1 in 193819201938
4 dated engagements, one bar per year, coloured by era.

In time order

Siege of Perekop, 1920Battle of Volochayevka, 1922Battle of Lahasusu, 1929Battle of Lake Khasan, 193819201938
One tick per dated engagement; each tick is a link.

Engagements by date

DateEngagementPlaceFrom the lastResult
1920Siege of PerekopIsthmus of Perekop, UkraineSoviet–Makhnovist victory
14 February 1922Battle of VolochayevkaVolochayevka-1, Russia7,000 km NERed victory
1929Battle of LahasusuChina859 km SWSoviet victory
1938Battle of Lake KhasanZaozyornaya, Soviet Union279 km ECeasefire

Sources and method

Commanders come from the commander fields of the English Wikipedia infoboxes of these engagements (CC BY-SA 4.0), resolved to one article each; portrait, dates and description from Wikidata (CC0) and Wikimedia Commons, Министерство обороны Российской Федерации, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Distances are great-circle distances between recorded sites, not marches.