Английская Википедия:Hero of the Soviet Union
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The title Hero of the Soviet Union (Шаблон:Lang-ru) was the highest distinction in the Soviet Union, awarded together with the Order of Lenin personally or collectively for heroic feats in service to the Soviet state and society.[1] The title was awarded both to civilian and military persons.
Overview
The award was established on 16 April 1934, by the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union.[2] The first recipients of the title originally received only the Order of Lenin, the highest Soviet award, along with a certificate (грамота, gramota) describing the heroic deed from the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Because the Order of Lenin could be awarded for deeds not qualifying for the title of hero, and to distinguish heroes from other Order of Lenin holders, the Gold Star medal was introduced on 1 August 1939.[3] Earlier heroes were retroactively eligible for these items.Шаблон:Fact
A hero could be awarded the title again for a subsequent heroic feat with an additional Gold Star medal and certificate.Шаблон:Sfn The practice of awarding additional Orders of Lenin when the title was awarded multiple times was abolished by the Supreme Soviet of the USSR in 1988 during perestroika.Шаблон:Sfn
Forty-four foreign citizens were awarded the title.[4]
The title was also awarded posthumously,Шаблон:Sfn though often without the actual Gold Star medal presented.Шаблон:Fact
The title could be revoked only by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet.[5]
Most Soviet-bloc countries followed the Soviet example and instituted their own "Hero" awards. The Soviet-style "Hero" title is still used both in surviving current Communist states such as Cuba and in some non-Communist post-Soviet countries such as Russia, Ukraine, and others.
Privileges
Individuals who received the award were entitled to special privileges, including:
- A pension with survivor benefits in the event of the death of the title holder.Шаблон:Sfn
- Priority on the housing list with 50% rent reduction,Шаблон:Sfn tax exempt and an additional Шаблон:Convert in living space.
- Annual round-tripШаблон:Sfn first class airline ticket
- Free local public transportationШаблон:Sfn
- Free annual visit to sanatorium or rest homeШаблон:Sfn
- Medical benefitsШаблон:Sfn
- Entertainment benefitsШаблон:Sfn
History
In total, during the existence of the USSR, the title of Hero of the Soviet Union was awarded to 12,777 people (excluding 72 stripped of the title for defamatory acts and 13 awards annulled as unwarranted), including 154 people who received the award twice (nine posthumously), three who received it three times, and two who received it four times. Ninety-five women were awarded the title. Among the Heroes of the Soviet Union, 44 people are citizens of foreign states. The great majority of them received it during World War II (11,635 Heroes of the Soviet Union, 101 twice Heroes, three thrice Heroes, and two four-time Heroes). Eighty-five people (28 posthumously) were awarded the title for actions related to the Soviet-Afghan War, which lasted from 1979 until 1989.[6]
The first recipients of the award were the pilots Anatoly Liapidevsky (certificate number one), Sigizmund Levanevsky, Vasily Molokov, Mavriky Slepnyov, Nikolai Kamanin, Ivan Doronin, and Mikhail Vodopianov, who participated in the successful aerial search and rescue of the crew of the steamship Cheliuskin, which sank in Arctic waters, crushed by ice fields, on 13 February 1934. Valery Chkalov, who made the first-ever Trans-polar flight, was awarded the title on 24 July 1936. Valentina Grizodubova, a female pilot, was the first woman to become a Hero of the Soviet Union (2 November 1938)[7] for her international women's record for a straight-line distance flight. Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, a Soviet partisan, was the first woman to become a Hero of the Soviet Union during World War II (February 16, 1942), posthumously.Шаблон:Fact
In addition, over 100 people received the award twice. A second Hero title, either Hero of the Soviet Union or Hero of Socialist Labour entitled the recipient to have a bronze bust of his or her likeness with a commemorative inscription erected in his or her hometown.[8]
Fighter pilots Aleksandr Pokryshkin and Ivan Kozhedub were three times Heroes of the Soviet Union.Шаблон:Sfn A third award entitled the recipient to have their bronze bust erected on a columnar pedestal in Moscow, near the Palace of the Soviets, but the palace was never built.Шаблон:Fact
After his release from serving a 20-year sentence in a Mexican prison for the assassination of Leon Trotsky, Ramón Mercader moved to the Soviet Union in 1961 and as Ramon Lopez[9] was awarded the Order of Lenin and the Hero of the Soviet Union medal "for the special deed" by KGB head Alexander Shelepin.Шаблон:Fact
The only individuals to receive the title four times were Marshal Georgy Zhukov and Leonid Brezhnev. The original statute of the Hero of the Soviet Union, however, did not provide for a fourth title; its provisions allowed for a maximum of three awards regardless of later deeds. Both Zhukov and Brezhnev received their fourth titles under controversial circumstances. Namely, Zhukov was awarded a fourth title in direct violation of the statute.Шаблон:Sfn He was awarded the fourth time "for his large accomplishments" on the occasion of his 60th birthday on December 1, 1956. There is some speculation that Zhukov's fourth Hero medal was for his participation in the arrest of Lavrentiy Beria in 1953, but this was not entered in the records. Brezhnev's four awards further eroded the prestige of the award because they were all birthday gifts, on the occasions of his 60th, 70th, 72nd and 75th birthdays. Such practices halted in 1988 due to a decision of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, which formally ended it.Шаблон:Fact By the 1970s, the award had been somewhat devalued. Important political and military persons had been awarded it on the occasions of their birthdays rather than for any immediate heroic activity.Шаблон:Fact All Soviet cosmonauts, starting from Yuri Gagarin, as well as foreign citizens from non-capitalist countries who participated in the Soviet space program as cosmonauts, received a Hero award for each flight, but no more than twice.Шаблон:Fact
Apart from individuals, the title was also awarded to twelve cities (Hero City) as well as the fortress of Brest (Hero-Fortress) for collective heroism during the War.Шаблон:Sfn
Later recipients
The last recipient of the title "Hero of the Soviet Union" was a Soviet diver, Captain of the 3rd rank Leonid Mikhailovich Solodkov on 24 December 1991 for his leadership and participation in a series of unprecedented extreme depth diving experiments.[10] Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, this title was succeeded in Russia by the title "Hero of the Russian Federation", in Ukraine by "Hero of Ukraine" and in Belarus by "Hero of Belarus".Шаблон:Sfn Azerbaijan's successor order is that of National Hero of Azerbaijan and Armenia's own hero medal is that of National Hero of Armenia, both modeled on the Soviet one.Шаблон:Fact
Heraldry
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Hero of Soviet Union obelisk of Saint Petersburg.
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Coat of arms of the Hero-City of Sevastopol
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Flag of the Hero-City of Tula
Philately
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Hero of the Soviet Union Lieutenant Alexander Kosmodem'yanskii
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Twice Hero of the Soviet Union Sergey Ivanovich Gritsevets
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Hero of the Soviet Union Alexander Matrosov
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Hero of the Soviet Union Lyudmila Pavlichenko
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2009 Russian stamp commemorating the Hero of the Soviet Union award.
Notable recipients
Single award
- Hamazasp Babadzhanian – future Chief Marshal of the Tank and Armored Troops, for actions near Stanislav
- Oleg Babak – last posthumous recipient to die in the line of duty.
- Mikhail Devyataev – escaped from a forced-labor camp at Peenemünde with crucial intelligence on German rocket programs.
- Andrei Durnovtsev – pilot who dropped the Tsar Bomba
- Yuri Gagarin – first human to fly in space.
- Pavel Grachev – division commander in Afghanistan.
- Ivan Kharchenko – neutralized more than 50,000 explosive items during and after World War II.
- Viktor Kibenok – First responding firefighter to the Chernobyl Disaster. Later died of radiation sickness.
- Valentin Kotyk – Youngest recipient (age 14). Posthumously awarded after being killed in combat during the Great Patriotic War
- Vladimir Konovalov – submarine commander; sank the German ship Goya.
- Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya – the first woman awarded the title during World War II.
- Alexander Krivets – participant in the Soviet partisan movement during World War II, commander of the Shchors partisan detachment.
- Matvey Kuzmin – oldest recipient; led a Nazi division to an ambush in Malkino.
- Nikolai Kuznetsov – intelligence officer responsible for the kidnappings and assassinations of several high-ranking Nazis.
- Lydia Litvyak – World War II fighter pilot and the world's top female ace.
- Alexander Marinesko – the most successful Soviet submarine commander in terms of gross register tonnage (GRT) sunk.
- Alexander Matrosov – posthumously awarded for blocking an enemy machine-gun with his own body.
- Nikolai Melnik – Soviet pilot known for placing radiation sensors at the Chernobyl's Nuclear Power Plant, Reactor 4, during the 1986 explosion.
- Aliya Moldagulova – sniper who led her brigade after suffering high casualties
- Pore Mosulishvili – Soviet Soldier and member of the Italian resistance.
- Ivan Panfilov – Soviet general. Killed in action during the Battle of Moscow. The 8th Guards Rifle Division of the Red Army was named in his honor.
- Lyudmila Pavlichenko – highest scoring female sniper.
- Yakov Pavlov – commanded the defenders of the building named after him in Stalingrad.
- Vladimir Pravik – Firefighter that responded to the Chernobyl Disaster, and later died of radiation sickness.
- Nikolay Pukhov – Colonel General in World War II and the first commander of the 8th Tank Army.
- Endel Puusepp – Soviet World War II bomber pilot.
- Otto Schmidt – scientist and explorer of the Arctic.
- Ivan Sidorenko – One of the top snipers of World War II, with over 500 kills.
- Richard Sorge – Soviet spy, reported from Japanese information the exact date that Operation Barbarossa would begin.
- Joseph Stalin – General Secretary of the Communist Party (1922–1953) and Head of Government as Prime Minister of the USSR (1941–1953).
- Leonid Telyatnikov – Head of the fire department at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant
- Valentina Tereshkova – first woman to fly in space.
- Michael Tsiselsky – Soviet naval pilot during World War II.
- Zhambyl Tulaev – Soviet sniper, killed 313 German soldiers.
- Dmitriy Ustinov – Marshal of the Soviet Union and Minister of Defense of the Soviet Union from 1976 until his death in 1984.
- Vasily Zaytsev – sniper who killed 225 at the Battle of Stalingrad; his achievements are dramatized in the film Enemy at the Gates.
- Viktor Zholudev – posthumously awarded for leadership during Operation Bagration
- Dmitry Komar, Vladimir Usov, and Ilya Krichevsky – Posthumously awarded for being killed while attempting to block IFVs from reaching the White House during the August Coup
- Leonid Solodkov – Last recipient of the award before it was succeeded by the Hero of the Russian Federation award
Two times awarded
- Ivan Konev – Marshal of the Soviet Union and Commander of the 1st and 2nd Ukrainian Front during World War II.
- Ivan Bagramyan – Marshal of the Soviet Union
- Konstantin Rokossovsky – Marshal of the Soviet Union and Commander of the 1st and 2nd Belorussian Front during World War II.
- Hazi Aslanov – Major General of armored troops during World War II.
- Talgat Bigeldinov – Il-2 during World War II and the only Kazakh who was twice awarded the title.
- Vasily Chuikov – General largely responsible for the victory at Stalingrad and attacking Berlin.
- Oleksiy Fedorov – organized underground resistance in Nazi-occupied Ukraine.
- Dmitry Glinka – flying ace with over 50 shootdowns
- Aleksei Leonov – cosmonaut who made the world's first spacewalk in 1965.
- Vasily Petrov – Major who lost both hands during the second World War.
- Pyotr Klimuk – Cosmonaut, former head of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.
- Vladimir Kokkinaki – Famous test pilot and record breaker.
- Vladimir Komarov – Cosmonaut, second award posthumous after his death onboard Soyuz 1.
- Sydir Kovpak – partisan leader in Ukraine.
- Boris Safonov – World War II naval pilot and flying ace
- Nelson Stepanyan – World War II ground-attack pilot.
- Vladimir Solovyov – Cosmonaut, former director of Mir and last man on Salyut 7.
- Amet-khan Sultan – World War II fighter ace and test pilot.
- Semyon Timoshenko – military commander and senior professional officer of the Red Army, Marshal of the Soviet Union and People's Commissar of State for National Defense.
- Aleksandr Vasilevsky – Marshal of the Soviet Union
Three times awarded
- Semyon Budyonny – Military Commander, 1st Cavalry Army in the Civil War and later of the Army Cavalry Commands, also Marshal of the Soviet Union and from 1937 to 1940, Commanding Officer, Moscow Military District.
- Ivan Kozhedub – highest-scoring Soviet fighter pilot
- Alexander Pokryshkin – World War II fighter pilot
Four times awarded
- Leonid Brezhnev – First Secretary, later General Secretary, of the CPSU (1964–82), and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (1960–64 and 1977-82), also awarded one Hero of Socialist Labour; this last feat was the subject of numerous Russian jokes. Also Marshal of the Soviet Union.
- Georgy Zhukov – Military commander and politician credited with many of the most significant Soviet victories of World War II, Commander of the First Belorussian Front and Marshal of the Soviet Union.
Foreign recipients (all single awards)
- Шаблон:Flagicon Abdul Ahad Momand – first Afghan cosmonaut
- Шаблон:Flagicon Ahmed Ben Bella – first president of Algeria
- Шаблон:Flagicon Zachari Zachariev – International Brigades pilot under pseudonym Turk Halil Ekrem, awarded 30 December 1936[11]
- Шаблон:Flagicon Georgi Ivanov – first Bulgarian cosmonaut
- Шаблон:Flagicon Todor Zhivkov – Communist president of Bulgaria
- Шаблон:Flagicon Aleksandr Panayotov Aleksandrov – second Bulgarian cosmonaut
- Шаблон:Flagicon Vladimir Zaimov – Soviet spy in Bulgaria, awarded on the 30th anniversary of his death in 1972
- Шаблон:Flagicon Fidel Castro – leader of the Cuban communist government
- Шаблон:Flagicon Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez – first African descendant and Cuban cosmonaut
- Шаблон:Flagicon Josef Buršík – for heroism during the liberation of Kyiv, awarded on 21 December 1943, after the occupation of Czechoslovakia he gave the award back
- Шаблон:Flagicon Otakar Jaroš – for heroism in the Battle of Sokolovo, posthumously awarded on 17 April 1943 as the first foreign soldier
- Шаблон:Flagicon Ján Nálepka (Slovak) – awarded in memoriam on 2 May 1945
- Шаблон:Flagicon Vladimír Remek – first Czechoslovak in space and first cosmonaut who wasn't a citizen of the Soviet Union or United States
- Шаблон:Flagicon Antonín Sochor – for heroism during the liberation of Kyiv, awarded on 21 December 1943
- Шаблон:Flagicon Ludvík Svoboda – communist president of Czechoslovakia and army general, commander of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps
- Шаблон:Flagicon Gustáv Husák (Slovak) – communist president of Czechoslovakia
- Шаблон:Flagicon Stěpan Vajda (Rusyn) – for heroism during the liberation of Poland, awarded in memoriam on 10 August 1945
- Шаблон:Flagicon Richard Tesařík – for heroism during the liberation of Kyiv, awarded 21 December 1943
- Шаблон:Flagicon Abdel Hakim Amer – Egyptian military officer, and member of the Free Officers movement
- Шаблон:Flagicon Gamal Abdel Nasser – One of the two principal leaders of the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, and President of Egypt (1956–1970)
- Шаблон:Flagicon Jean-Loup Chrétien – first French cosmonaut (later served as a NASA astronaut)
- Шаблон:Flagicon Marcel Albert – decorated World War II fighter pilot (Normandie-Niemen)
- Шаблон:Flagicon Jacques André – decorated World War II fighter pilot (Normandie-Niemen)
- Шаблон:Flagicon Roland de la Poype – decorated World War II fighter pilot (Normandie-Niemen)
- Шаблон:Flagicon Marcel Lefèvre – decorated World War II fighter pilot (Normandie-Niemen)
- Шаблон:Flagicon Sigmund Jähn – the first German cosmonaut
- Шаблон:Flagicon Walter Ulbricht – East German leader
- Шаблон:Flagicon Erich Honecker – East German leader
- Шаблон:Flagicon Erich Mielke – East German head of the Stasi
- Файл:Flag of Germany (1935–1945).svg Fritz Schmenkel – German communist who deserted to Soviet troops in November 1941 and became a partisan, killed 22 February 1944, posthumously awarded 1964[12]
- Шаблон:Flagicon Bertalan Farkas – first Hungarian cosmonaut
- Шаблон:Flagicon János Kádár – Hungarian politician
- Шаблон:Flagicon Rakesh Sharma – first Indian cosmonaut
- Шаблон:Flagicon Primo Gibelli – Italian communist and Spanish Republican Air Force aviator, posthumous[13]
- Шаблон:Flagicon Jügderdemidiin Gürragchaa – first Mongolian cosmonaut
- Шаблон:Flagicon Władysław Wysocki – Polish officer from the battle of Lenino
- Шаблон:Flagicon Juliusz Hibner – Polish communist and officer from the battle of Lenino
- Шаблон:Flagicon Aniela Krzywoń – Polish soldier
- Шаблон:Flagicon Mirosław Hermaszewski – first citizen of Poland to travel into space
- Шаблон:Flagicon Dumitru Prunariu – first Romanian cosmonaut
- Шаблон:Flagicon Ramón Mercader – assassinated Leon Trotsky in 1940
- Шаблон:Flagicon Rubén Ruiz Ibárruri – son of the Spanish communist leader Dolores Ibárruri Gómez, killed in the Battle of Stalingrad while fighting for the Red Army
- Шаблон:Flagicon Muhammed Faris – first Syrian cosmonaut
- Шаблон:Flagicon Phạm Tuân – first Vietnamese cosmonaut
See also
- Awards of the Soviet Union
- Hero of Socialist Labor
- Hero of the Russian Federation
- Hero of Belarus
- Hero of Ukraine
- Hero of the Republic of Cuba
- Hero of the People's Armed Forces
- Order of Lenin
- Medal of Honor, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Congressional Space Medal of Honor
Notes
References
External links
- Website dedicated to Heroes of the Soviet Union and Russia Шаблон:In lang
- Hero of the Soviet Union – an article on the title Шаблон:In lang
- Alley of Heroes of the Soviet Union in Volgograd – history and photos Шаблон:In lang
- Legal Library of the USSR Шаблон:In lang
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- ↑ McDaniel and Schmitt, The Comprehensive Guide to Soviet Orders and Medals.
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