Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovsky (Russian: ?????´? ?´???????? ??????´?????; 23 November [O.S.
11 November] 1898 – 31 March 1967) was a Soviet military commander in World War II, Marshal of the Soviet Union, and Defense Minister of the Soviet Union in the late 1950s and 1960s.
He contributed to the major defeat of Nazi Germany at the Battle of Stalingrad and the Battle of Budapest.
During the post-war era, he made a pivotal contribution to the strengthening of the Soviet Union as a military superpower.