Andrei Durnovtsev

Soviet Air Force officer · Lived 1923 to 1976 · aged 53

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Awards

Order of Lenin

Order of the Red Star

Hero of the Soviet Union

Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Medal "For Battle Merit"

Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"

Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Medal "Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

Jubilee Medal "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy"

Jubilee Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

Medal "For Impeccable Service"

About this person

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.

Status

deceased

Dates

Lived 1923 to 1976 · aged 53

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