The title Hero of the Soviet Union (Russian: Герой Советского Союза, romanized: Geroy Sovietskogo Soyuza) was the highest distinction in the Soviet Union, awarded together with the Order of Lenin personally or collectively for heroic feats …

The title Hero of the Soviet Union was the highest distinction of the Soviet Union. It was awarded 12,775 times. Due to the large size of the list, it has been broken up into multiple pages.

More than 90% of all awards of the title Hero of the Soviet Union were made during the Great Patriotic War against Nazi Germany and its allies — 11,657 men and women in all.

Lists of Heroes of the Soviet Union cover people or groups of people who were given the Hero of the Soviet Union award, the highest distinction in the Soviet Union, for heroic feats in service to the Soviet state and society. The lists are organized alphabetically, by nationality or ethnicity, and by other criteria.

The first foreigner to be awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union was First Lieutenant Otakar Jaroš, a company commander in the 1st Czechoslovak Independent Field Battalion that was...

In 1943, Konstantin Nedorubov was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. He survived the war and died in 1978 at the venerable age of 89. When, in 1915, Grigory Ageyev left home for...

The Hero of the Soviet Union was a medal awarded to members of the Soviet Union Red Army during World War II for men who drastically changed the outcome of a battle. 12,775 were awarded. Title of Hero of the Soviet Union was introduced by the Decree of the CEC of the USSR on 16 April 1934.

He then returned home to become commander-in-chief of the Soviet Army and deputy minister of the armed forces. Fearing Zhukov’s popularity and his potential as a rival, Stalin shipped the hero off to command the Odessa Military District, and then even farther east to the Urals in Soviet Asia.

Ziya Bunyadov – Ziya Bunyadov was awarded the Soviet Union's highest military honor, the Hero of the Soviet Union, for his action in the battle over Pilitsa bridge in Poland on January 14, 1945, resulting in 100 enemy fatalities and 45 enemy prisoners taken.

2021年2月23日 · Natalya Fedorovna Kravtsova, Hero of the Soviet Union, died 5 June 2005, in Moscow. Her remains were interred at the Troyekurovskoye Cemetery in Moscow. Three-view illustration with dimensions in millimeters.