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Mikhail Skobelev
Mikhail Skobelev was a Russian general famous for his campaigns in Central Asia and the Balkans. He crushed the Kokand rising of 1875–76 and became the first governor of the Fergana Oblast, then won fame at Plevna and Shipka-Sheinovo in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78. In 1881 he stormed the Turkmen fortress of Geok Tepe. He died suddenly in Moscow at the age of 38.
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