Yakov

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Yakov was the eldest son of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, known for his troubled relationship with his father and his death as a prisoner of war during World War II.

Aliases (2)

Statements (46)
Predicate Object
instanceOf Soviet military officer
person
allegiance Soviet Union
birthName Yakov Iosifovich Dzhugashvili
causeOfDeath gunshot wound
child Galina Dzhugashvili
conflict Eastern Front (World War II)
countryOfCitizenship Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Soviet Union
dateOfBirth 1907-03-18
dateOfDeath 1943-04-14
detainedAt Hammelburg prisoner-of-war camp
Sachsenhausen concentration camp
era 20th century
ethnicGroup Georgians
familyName Dzhugashvili
father Joseph Stalin
front Western Front (Red Army)
givenName Yakov
hasRelative Nadezhda Alliluyeva
hasTroubledRelationshipWith Joseph Stalin
languageSpoken Georgian
Russian
mannerOfDeath death in prison
militaryBranch Red Army
militaryUnit artillery unit of the Red Army
mother Kato Svanidze
nativeName Яков Джугашвили
notableEvent capture by German forces in 1941
refusal to cooperate with Nazi propaganda while in captivity
notableFor being captured as a Soviet officer by German forces in World War II
being the eldest son of Joseph Stalin
dying in German captivity during World War II
notableQuoteAttributed I will not trade a Marshal for a lieutenant (regarding a proposed prisoner exchange)
participantIn World War II
placeOfBirth Baji, Kutais Governorate, Russian Empire
Georgia
placeOfDeath Oranienburg, Germany
Sachsenhausen concentration camp
positionHeld artillery officer
rank lieutenant
religion Eastern Orthodoxy
sibling Svetlana Alliluyeva
Vasily Stalin
spouse Yulia Meltzer
wasPrisonerOf Nazi Germany

Referenced by (4)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Yakov Dzhugashvili
Yakov Dzhugashvili
Yakov Sverdlov
givenName
Jakub ("Jakov")
hasEquivalentName

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