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'Anatoly Gribkov'

'Office'	'Soviet Army High Command'
'Date of Birth:'	'March 23, 1919'
'Place of Birth:'	' Dukhovoye, Russia'
'Date of Death:'	'n/a'
'Place of Death:'	'n/a'
'Political party:'	'Soviet Communist Party'

'Anatoly Ivanovich Gribkov' () was at Soviet Army High Command during the Cold War era. Gribkov was born in the village of Dukhovoye (now in Liskinsky District of Voronezh Oblast), Russian SFSR on March 23, 1919, to father Ivan Vasilyevich Gribkov and mother Serafima Kuzminichna Gribkova. He had six brothers and three sisters. When he was older, he attended the J. V. Stalin Armored Troops School, from which he graduated early, and later graduated from the Soviet General Staff Academy with an honours degree and a gold medal. General Anatoly Gribkov played minor but important roles during the events of the Cuban Missile Crisis and Checkpoint Charlie.