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The General Directorate of Military Schools created

2 February 1863

January 21 (February 2), 1863 as part of reforming the War Ministry, the Staff of the chief commander of military schools and the Directorate of academies of the War Department were merged to create the General Directorate of Military Schools (GUVUZ), which became a very effective governing body of the teaching department.
 

Anniversary of the decisive combat of Preussisch Eylau battle

8 February 1807

January 26-27 (7-8 February), 1807 near the town of Preussisch Eylau in East Prussia (now the town of Bagrationovsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russian Federation) during the Russian-Prussian-French War 1806-1807 took place the decisive battle between the Russian and French armies.
 

The Truce of Andrusovo signed

9 February 1667

January 30 (February 9), 1667 in the village of Andrusovj near Smolensk Russia and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth signed the truce for thirteen and a half years.

The Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 began

9 February 1904

At the beginning of the twentieth century the rivalry between Russia and Japan for influence in Northeast China and Korea led to an aggravation of the international situation in the Far East.

Arkady Ivanovich Zenkovsky, Hero of the Soviet Union, was born

9 February 1920

On February 9, 1920, Arkady Zenkovsky, a participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union (1945), was born in the village of Bolshoy Kuseryak (according to other sources in the village of Bakhaley) in the Aromashevsky district of Tyumen region.

Birth of Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov, Soviet Military Commander, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1955), Twice Hero of the Soviet Union (1944, 1945)

12 February 1900

Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov was born on January 31 (February 12), 1900 in a peasant family in the village of Serebyranye Prudy, Tula Governorate (now Moscow Region). After graduating from four classes of the parish school at the age of 12, he went to Petrograd, where he became a student in a spur workshop. Since December 1917, he was in military service as a cabin boy of a detachment of miners in Kronstadt. In 1918, he graduated from the military instructor courses of the Red Army. During the Civil War, he was an assistant company commander, assistant commander (since November 1918) and commander (since May 1919) of a rifle regiment, in 1921-1922 – head of the garrison of Velizh. He fought on the Southern, Eastern and Western fronts, participated in the Soviet-Polish War (1919-1921). For bravery and heroism, he was awarded two Orders of the Red Banner (in total, during the years of military service, he was awarded four Orders of the Red Banner).

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