# Andrei Durnovtsev

> Andrei Yegorovich Durnovtsev was a Soviet lieutenant colonel who was awarded Hero of the Soviet Union. Born in 1923, in the village of Upper Kuryaty, part of the Karatuzsky District of Krasnoyarsk Krai, he was a pilot of the Soviet Air Force. In July 1942, Andrei was drafted into the Red Army. One year later, he would graduate from the Irkutsk Higher Military Aviation Engineering School and from the Engels Military Aviation School in 1948. He was appointed Lead nuclear weapons test pilot, in charge of dropping the Tsar Bomba as part of the Nuclear weapons testing program of the Soviet Union.

*Soviet Air Force officer*

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## Identity
- **Born:** 1923-01-14
- **Died:** 1976-10-24
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 50.1 / 100
- **Momentum:** 7.8 / 100  (trend: RISING)
- **Historical depth:** 10.1 / 100
- **Now attention:** 0.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 40.0 / 100

## Sources
- [Дурновцев, Андрей Егорович](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D1%83%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%86%D0%B5%D0%B2%2C_%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%95%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87)
- [اندرى دورنوڤتسيڤ](https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%89_%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%88%DA%A4%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%8A%DA%A4)
- [Андрей Дурновцев](https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%94%D1%83%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%86%D0%B5%D0%B2)
- [আন্দ্রেই দুরনোভটসেভ](https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%87_%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%AD%E0%A6%9F%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%AD)
- [Дурновцев Андрей Егорович](https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D1%83%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%86%D0%B5%D0%B2_%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%95%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87)
- [Andrei Durnovtsev](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Durnovtsev)
- [Andréi Durnóvtsev](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9i_Durn%C3%B3vtsev)
- [Andrei Durnovtsev](https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Durnovtsev)
- [Andreï Dournovtsev](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre%C3%AF_Dournovtsev)
- [Andrei Durnovtsev](https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Durnovtsev)
- [Andrej Egorovič Durnovcev](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrej_Egorovi%C4%8D_Durnovcev)
- [Andriej Durnowcew](https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andriej_Durnowcew)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4755776)

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