This is rather good: Translated - Warheroes.ru Original - Ãåðîè ñòðàíû Appears to be a searchable list of Heroes of the Soviet union, with pretty substantial biographies on each one. Don't know about it's completeness but all I've so far thought of (not that many) have an entry. Cheers, Adam.
I wonder what the bear says on the little game on the right of the screen, hope deadb_tch can explain. As for translation, I don't think this one worked out quite right. T-shirts Nikolai Translated version of http://www.warheroes.ru/ In Russian. Майков Николай Иванович Ãåðîé Ñîâåòñêîãî Ñîþçà Ìàéêîâ Íèêîëàé Èâàíîâè÷ Another question for Alex, were there any Heroes Of Soviet Union awards given out for the war in Afghanistan in the 1980s? EDIT: Found them. More edit:Link doesn't go to the correct list Translated version of http://www.warheroes.ru/
Sorry I'm out of time right now but HAVE to correct that 'translated' Maykov (not a T-Shirts) Nikolai A bit later i'll come over here and will do anything possible to clear out that site
I wonder what the bear says on the little game on the right of the screen, hope deadb_tch can explain. As for translation, I don't think this one worked out quite right. T-shirts Nikolai Translated version of http://www.warheroes.ru/ In Russian. Майков Николай Иванович Ãåðîé Ñîâåòñêîãî Ñîþçà Ìàéêîâ Íèêîëàé Èâàíîâè÷ Another question for Alex, were there any Heroes Of Soviet Union awards given out for the war in Afghanistan in the 1980s? EDIT: Found them. More edit:Link doesn't go to the correct list Translated version of http://www.warheroes.ru/ Finally I've got here, so let's go! First of all there are 85 Heroes of Afghanistan war (conflict call it what u want), here is the list: Ñïèñîê ãåðîåâ Ñîâåòñêîãî Ñîþçà. 28 of them got title postmortem. Also there are 22 Heroes of war in Korea, 1 of them postmortem. Interesting facts, I think, especially if compare to Heroes that were given for aircraft test flights - 122, and 9 of 'em postmortem (and 1 double Hero). Then bear says "Frontline.ru" (actually peredovaya.ru) that is russian mulituser online game, so that's just an ad . Another questions?
Brezhnev's WW2 service is interesting: Brezhnev. Even though he has one more award than Zhukov I can't help feeling the latter's three wartime awards and one postwar somewhat outweigh Brezhnev's postwar five.
Just the one Hero of the Soviet Union (the slacker) but three 'Heroes of Soviet labour', a pretty much equal award (?). Khruschev Wonder if any of these were part of the awards he notoriously gave to himself, that led to grumblings of further 'Non-Leninist' behaviour.
Brezhnev? http://translate.google.com/translate?sourceid=navclient&hl=en&u=http%3a%2f%2fwww%2ewarheroes%2eru%2f The old SOB was awarding himself HSUs for his birthdays, and see the penultimate paragraph: he also awarded himself nothing less than the Order of Victory! Why??? However later on Boris Yeltsin took care of that and revoked these self-awards in 1989. See the last entry here http://marshals.narod.ru/STAR/pobedaen.html Also, Brezhnev's four awards further eroded the prestige of the award because they were birthday gifts, on the occasions of his 60th, 70th, 72nd and 75th birthdays. Here is a very 'favourable' view of him http://www.ukraine-observer.com/articles/230/1022 awarded the highest Soviet military order "Victory", but the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR his decree of 21 Sept, 1989 repealed Ordinance 1978, to award the Brezhnev LI орденом "Победа", как противоречащий статуту этого ордена. Order "victory" as contrary to the statute of the Order.
Just been flicking through ATB issue 139 , reading on the Carpatho-Dukla operation and the Czechoslovak Army Corps again. It says that the first foreigner to gain the title Hero Of The Soviet Union was Captain Otakar Jaroš in 1943. Here's a wikipedia entry on him. Otakar JaroÅ¡ - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Doing abit of Googling on him found this SU-85 named after him. Áðîíåòàíêîâûå âîéñêà ×åõîñëîâàêèè â ÑÑÑÐ The full photo similar to that his wiki picture comes from here. Ôsmy marec pred šesdesiatimi piatimi rokmi. Blog - Martin Marušic (blog.sme.sk)
Just reading about the French Normandie-Niemen Squadrons on the Eastern Front. Four members of the Normandie-Niemen Regiment were made Heroes Of The Soviet Union. Capitaine Marcel Albert Capitaine Roland de La Poype Lieutenant Jacques Andre Lieutenant Marcel Lefevre (posthumous)
Anyone know what he did to become one? Never heard of him before. Commodore Alexander Vladimirvitch Tripolski, Hero of the Soviet Union, Order of Lenin, Gold Star
Oh, him? Easy. Трипольский Александр Владимирович - командир подводной лодки (ПЛ) "С-1" Краснознамённого Балтийского флота, капитан-лейтенант. Родился 12 декабря 1902 года в селе Мижиричка ныне Коростенского района Житомирской области Украины в крестьянской семье. Украинец. Член ВКП(б) с 1926 года. Окончил 10 классов. В Военно-Морском Флоте с 1924 года. Окончил класс водолазов Объединённой школы Черноморского флота, курсы усовершенствования командного состава при 2-м отделе Народного комиссариата по военным и морским делам и Реввоенсовете СССР в Москве, и в 1936 году - Учебный отряд подводного плавания имени С.М. Кирова в Ленинграде (ныне Санкт-Петербург). Had enough fun? Ok, translating from here! with all the defects of machine translation... [Tripolskiy] Alexander Vladimirovich - commander of submarine ([PL]) “S -1” of red banner Baltic fleet, lieutenant commander. ... Participant in the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-40 years. [PL] “S -1” of red banner Baltic fleet, under the command the lieutenant commander Of [tripolskogo] [A].[V]. completed two combat marches on the position in the Gulf of Bothnia. On December 10, 1939 in the region of the port Of [rauma] the crew of submarine artillery of [ognem] heated the transport “Of [bolkhaym]” (with displacement of 3324 gross weight of tons). In the march the commander skillfully deviated from the gunboat of enemy, which was being attempted to ram “S -1”. During boosting of strait southern [Kvarken] under the ice conditions artillery calculation [PL] brought down one of two attacked ship aircraft. “S -1” satisfactorily returned into the base, in spite of strong icing, damage of light housing, torn away sheets of skin of the upper deck, torn antennas and hand rope (i.e. enclosure alongside [PL]). By the Decree of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated February 7, 1940 for the model fulfillment of the combat missions of command, personal courage and heroism lieutenant commander To [tripolskomu] Alexander Vladimirovich is awarded the Title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the presentation of the Order of Lenin and medal “gold star” (№ 277). For the selfless combat activity [PL] “S -1” it is rewarded, and entire personnel - by orders and by medals. ... Appointed in March 1942 as the commander of the 3rd battalion of submarines of the type “from” the Pacific Ocean fleet, the captain of the 1st rank [Tripolskiy] from October 6, 1942 to March 8, 1943 heads the first in the history of underwater floating passage 4th [PL]: “S -51” “S -54” “S -55” and “S -56” from the Pacific Ocean fleet to the northern fleet - from Vladivostok into the polar, through Pacific and Atlantic Oceans and Panama Canal. (which must rate as a good navigation feat) ... Since November 1944 [Tripolskiy] [A].[V]. - commander of the 2nd individual submarine division Vladimir -[Olginskoy] Naval base ([VMB]) of Pacific Ocean fleet. Participant in the war with Japan 1945. Was the representative of the Navies the USSR in Port Arthur and distant on calculation and safety of the property of the fleet of Japan after its capitulation. ... Since 1949 the captain of the 1st rank [Tripolskiy] [A].[V]. - in the reserve. It lived in Moscow, where it passed away on January 21, 1949. It is buried on The [novodevichem] cemetery. [Nagrazhden] by the Order of Lenin (1940), 4 (1943, two - in 1944, 1945), by the orders Of [nakhimova] of the 2nd degree (1945), the patriotic war of the 1st degree (1946), by medals.
