What is Dmitry Yazov?
[[File:Marshal Dmitry Yazov.jpg|right|200px]] '''Dmitry Timofeyevich Yazov''' ({{lang-ru|Дми́трий Тимофе́евич Я́зов}}; 8 November 1924 – 25 February 2020) was a Soviet military personnel. He served during [[World War II]] and the [[Soviet–Afghan War]]. He was born in [[Omsk Oblast]], [[Soviet Union]]. He was the last [[Marshal of the Soviet Union]] to be appointed before the [[Fall of the USSR|fall]]. He was the only Marshal of the Soviet Union to be born in [[Siberia]]. He is veteran of the [[Eastern Front (World War II)|Great Patriotic War]]. Yazov was the last surviving Soviet Marshal and the only military marshal not to have been awarded the title [[Hero of the Soviet Union]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Dmitry Yazov|url=https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/yazov.htm|website=www.globalsecurity.org|access-date=11 September 2017}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070711055907/http://www.coldwarfiles.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=people.details&thisunit=0&peopleid=119 Cold War Files: Dmitry Yazov] {{DEFAULTSORT:Yazov, Dimitri Timofeyevich}} [[Category:1924 births]] [[Category:2020 deaths]] [[Category:Soviet military personnel of World War II]] [[Category:Soviet generals]] [[Category:Marshals of the Soviet Union]] [[Category:People from Omsk Oblast]] {{bio-stub}} {{authority control}}