Leonid Nikolayevich Sobolev (Russian: Леонид Николаевич Соболев) (9 June 1844 – 13 October 1913) was an Imperial Russian Army general and politician.A veteran of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78 General Sobolev was the main proponent of the strand of Russian foreign and military policy that saw for the Russians a duty to expel the Ottoman Empire from Europe and to take the Bosphorus for Russia in order to ensure full access to the Mediterranean Sea.
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active years end date
1883-04-16, 1883-09-19
active years start date
1882-07-05, 1883-08-15
battle
Russo-Turkish War (1877–78)
birth date
1844-06-09
birth place
Russian Empire, Toropetskiy_county
country
Imperial Russian Army
death date
1913-10-13
death place
Russian Empire, Toropetskiy_county
military command
1st Brigade 37th Infantry division
monarch
Alexander of Battenberg
order in office
Minister of Interior, 6th Prime Minister of Bulgaria
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