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Order Of The Red Star
The Order of the Red Star (russian: Орден Красной Звезды, Orden Krasnoy Zvezdy) was a military decoration of the Soviet Union. It was established by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of 6 April 1930 but its statute was only defined in decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of 5 May 1930. That statute was amended by decrees of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of 7 May 1936, of 19 June 1943, of 26 February 1946, of 15 October 1947, of 16 December 1947 and by decree No 1803-X of 28 March 1980. Award statute The Order of the Red Star was awarded to soldiers of the Soviet Army, Soviet Navy, Navy, Soviet Border Troops, border and NKVD, internal security forces, employees of the KGB, State Security Committee of the USSR, as well as Non-commissioned officer, NCOs and officers of the bodies of MVD, internal affairs; to units, warships, associations, enterprises, institutions and organizations; as well as t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minister Of Defence (Soviet Union)
The Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union refers to the head of the Ministry of Defence who was responsible for defence of the socialist Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1917 to 1922 and the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1992. People's Commissars for Military and Naval Affairs (1917–1934) People's Commissar for the Armed Forces (1946) Ministers of the Armed Forces (1946–1950) Ministers of Defence (1953–1992) See also * College of War * Ministry of War of the Russian Empire * List of heads of the military of Imperial Russia * Ministry of Defense (Soviet Union) * Ministry of Defense Industry (Soviet Union) * Ministry of Defence (Russia) * General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation The General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (russian: Генеральный штаб Вооружённых сил Российской Федерации, General'nyy shtab Vooruzhonnykh sil Rossiyskoy F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Vasilyevich Belyakov
Alexander Vasilyevich Belyakov (russian: Алекса́ндр Васи́льевич Беляко́в; – 28 November 1982) was a Soviet flight navigator who, together with command pilot Valery Chkalov and co-pilot Georgy Baydukov, set a record for the longest uninterrupted flight in 1936 and made , flying from Moscow to Vancouver, Washington. He was elected to the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union and served as a lieutenant general of the Soviet Air Forces. Biography Early life and training Alexander Belyakov was born in 1897 in the village of Orekhovo-Zuyevsky District, Bezzubovo, Moscow Governorate (now Orekhovo-Zuyevsky District, Moscow Oblast) and grew up in Ryazan. He studied forestry in 1915-1916 after finishing his gymnasium (school), gymnasium studies and began serving in the infantry of the Imperial Russian Army in 1916. He fought in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Russian Red Army's 25th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 25th Rifle Division d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asaf Abdrakhmanov
Asaf Kutdusovich Abdrakhmanov (russian: Аса́ф Кутду́сович Абдрахма́нов tt-Cyrl, Асаф Котдус улы Габдерахманов ; 20 December 1918 — 3 September 2000) was a Soviet naval officer awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union during World War II. Early life Abdrakhmanov was born on 20 December 1918 in Agryz to a Volga Tatar family. He grew up in a village in Agryzsky District and after graduating from junior high school and the Aviation Technical School in Kazan, Abdrakhmanov worked as a technician at an aircraft factory. Military career Abdrakhmanov joined the Soviet Navy in 1939 and in 1942 he graduated from the Higher Naval College. After finishing training, Lieutenant Abdrakhmanov joined the Black Sea Fleet and served aboard Motor boats. He was in charge of a detachment of three Motor torpedo boats when the Soviet Navy raided Mariupol one night. In November 1943, during the Kerch–Eltigen Operation, Abdrakhmanov land ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gennady Ivanovich Obaturov
Gennady Ivanovich Obaturov (russian: Геннадий Иванович Обатуров; – 29 April 1996) was a Soviet Army General. Childhood and youth Born in a peasant family in the village of Maloe Zarecheno, then part of the Marakulinsky Volost in the Slobodsky Uyezd of Vyatsky Province, Russia. His father was mobilized in the army and died in 1916 on the battlefront during World War I. The family counted five children. Following their mother's death in the early 20s the elder children became responsible for the household and Gennady began working in the field at age 9. In 1930 finished the seven years school for peasant youth. In 1933 finished the Gorky Cooperative Technical School. Worked in Vyatka as production head of the town workers cooperative catering department. Military service Obaturov volunteered for the Red Army in October 1935 and graduated from the Orlov Tank College in 1938. Between 1938 and 1939, he served in the Far East – platoon commander, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexei Yepishev
Alexei Alexeyevich Yepishev, also spelled Epishev ( Russian: ''Алексей Алексеевич Епишев''; – September 15, 1985) was a Soviet political officer, politician and diplomat. He served as the Chief of the Main Political Directorate of the Soviet Army and Navy from 1962 to 1985. Biography Early years Yepishev was born to a laborer's family in Astrakhan. In 1923, he began working in a local fishery, where he joined the Komsomol; in 1927, he became the secretary of the fishery's branch of the organization and later, an instructor in the municipal branch. In 1929, he was accepted as a member of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), where he became an ardent supporter of Joseph Stalin. In 1930, Yepishev joined the Red Army, where he underwent commanders' training in the following year and served as a political officer in the Tank Corps. In 1938, he graduated from the Joseph Stalin Military Academy for Mechanization and Motorization. In June that year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Korolev Alexey Denisovich
Korolyov, also transliterated as Korolev or Korolov (russian: Королёв), or its feminine variant Korolyova, Koroleva, Korolova (), is a common Russian surname, and the name of multiple places in Russia. It is derived from the word ''korol'' (), meaning " king". Korolyov may refer to: People *Aleksandr Korolyov (other), several people *Alexey Korolev (born 1987), Kazakhstani ski jumper * Andrey Korolev (1944–1999), Russian linguist * Anton Korolev, Russian ice hockey player *Boris Korolev, Soviet sculptor * Denis Borisovich Korolyov (born 1987), Russian footballer *Dmitry Korolyov (born 1988), Russian footballer * Evgeny Korolev (born 1988), Kazakhstani tennis player *Igor Korolev (1970–2011), Russian hockey player * Lev Korolyov (other), multiple people * Nikolay Korolyov (sergeant) (1921–1943), Hero of the Soviet Union * Nikolay Korolyov (boxer) (1917–1974), Soviet boxer *Oleg Korolyov (born 1952), Governor of Lipetsk Oblast, Russia * Oleg A. Kor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naum Shusterman
Naum Semyonovich Shusterman (18 August 1912 – 25 April 1976) was a lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Union, who served as the chief engineer of the 43rd Soviet Fighter Aviation Regiment during the Great Patriotic War. Biography Early life Shusterman was born on 18 August 1912, in Kiev, then Russian Empire, to parents Shendlya and Simeon Shusterman. He had four sisters. Military service At the age of 18, Shusterman attended the Military Aviation Engineering Academy of Leningrad. He remained there for three years, and learned numerous technicalities of military aircraft. In 1932, Shusterman enlisted in the 16th Aviation Army of the USSR, where he served as an engineer of the 3rd rank. Great Patriotic War During the Winter War and the Great Patriotic War, Shusterman served as a captain and later as a major, holding the position of Chief Engineer of the 43rd Soviet Fighter Aviation Regiment. Serving all over the Eastern Front, he participated in the defense of Kiev, Stalingrad an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandr Ivanovich Babaev (pilot)
Aleksandr Ivanovich Babaev (russian: Александр Иванович Бабаев; 6 September 1923 22 May 1985) was a Soviet Air Force fighter pilot in the 196th Fighter Aviation Regiment during the Second World War who later went on to become a Colonel-General of Aviation. He was one of the first people to be awarded the Honoured Military Pilot of the USSR medal in 1965 and was later awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union in 1978. Early life Babaev was born on 6 September 1923 to a working-class Russian family in the city of Kaluga of the Russian SFSR. In 1930 the family moved to Voronezh. After graduating from secondary school in 1940 he studied aviation at the Voronezh Aeroclub until he joined the Red Army in December 1940. Military career After enlisting in the Red Army in December 1940, Babaev graduated from the Bataysk Military Aviation School in 1941. From 1941 to April 1942 he served in the 16th and 27th Reserve Aviation Regiments until he was sent to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgy Baydukov
Georgy Filippovich Baydukov (russian: Гео́ргий Фили́ппович Байдуко́в; – 28 December 1994) was a Soviet test pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union (1936), writer and hunter. Early years Baydukov was born at the Taryshta railway station in the Tomsk Governorate of the Russian Empire (now Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia)Байдуков Георгий Филиппович // Большая Российская Энциклопедия / редколл., гл. ред. Ю. С. Осипов. том 2. М., научное издательство "Большая Российская Энциклопедия", 2005. in family of a railway worker.Байдуков Георгий Филиппович // Советская военная энциклопедия / ред. А. А. Гречко. том 1. М., Воениздат, 1976. стр.367Байдуков Георгий Филиппович // Герои Советского Союза: краткий био ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galaktion Alpaidze
russian: Галактио́н Елисе́евич Алпаи́дзе , birth_date = , death_date = , image = Galaktion Alpaidze.jpg , imagesize = , caption = , birth_place = Kursebi, Russian Empire , death_place = Moscow, Russian Federation , placeofburial = Troyekurovskoye Cemetery, Moscow , nickname = , allegiance = Soviet Union , branch = Red Army / Soviet Army , serviceyears = 1938–1975 , rank = Lieutenant General , unit = , commands = *36th Artillery Regiment (53rd Infantry Division, 7th Guard Army) * 972nd Artillery Regiment (113th Infantry Division, 57th Army, Ukrainian Front) * Artillery Infantry Division (Stalingrad) * North Caucasus Military District (head of training ground and anti aircraft artillery) * 4th Artillery Division (1957–1959) * Head of ballistic missile research * Head of Plesetsk Cosmodrome (1963–1975) , battles = World War II *Battle of Moscow * B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hammer And Sickle
The hammer and sickle (Unicode: "☭") zh, s=锤子和镰刀, p=Chuízi hé liándāo or zh, s=镰刀锤子, p=Liándāo chuízi, labels=no is a symbol meant to represent proletarian solidarity, a union between agricultural and industrial workers. It was first adopted during the Russian Revolution at the end of World War I, the hammer representing workers and the sickle representing the peasants. After World War I (from which Russia withdrew in 1917) and the Russian Civil War, the hammer and sickle became more widely used as a symbol for labor within the Soviet Union and for international proletarian unity. It was taken up by many communist movements around the world, some with local variations. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union at the end of the Cold War, the hammer and sickle remains commonplace in Russia itself and other former Soviet republics. In some other former communist countries, as well as in countries where communism is banned by law, its di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
