Andrey Borovykh

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Soviet aviator, twice Hero of the Soviet Union (1921-1989)

WritersLived 1921 to 1989 · aged 68

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Andrey Yegorovich Borovykh was a Soviet flying ace during World War II who was twice awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.

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Awards 40

1985Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class

1982Order of the Red Star

1978Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

1975Order "For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR", 3rd class

1975Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

1975Jubilee Medal "30 Years of the Victory over militaristic Japan"

1973Knight of the Order of Polonia Restituta

1971Order of the Red Star

1971Order of Military Merit

1971Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Mongolian People's Army"

1970Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"

1969Jubilee Medal "30 years of the Victory in Khalkhin-Gol"

1968Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

1967Order of Lenin

1965Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

1958Jubilee Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

1955Order of the Red Banner

1955Order of the Red Star

1950Medal "For Battle Merit"

1948Jubilee Medal "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy"

1946Silver Cross of the Virtuti Militari

1945Hero of the Soviet Union

1945Order of the Red Banner

1945Medal "For the Capture of Königsberg"

1945Medal "For the Capture of Berlin"

1945Medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw"

1944Order of Alexander Nevsky

1943Hero of the Soviet Union

1943Order of Lenin

1943Order of the Red Banner

1942Order of the Red Banner

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

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

Medal "Veteran of Labour"

Medal "Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

Medal "For Strengthening of Brotherhood in Arms"

Medal "For the Development of Virgin Lands"

Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

Medal "For Impeccable Service", 1st class

Patriotic Order of Merit in Silver

Connected to Andrey 6

Nikolai Dmitriyevich YakovlevAlso won Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Mongolian People's Army"Ivan FiodorovAlso won Medal "For the Capture of Königsberg"

Mikhail DukhanovAlso won Medal "For the Capture of Berlin"

Semyon LobovAlso won Medal "For the Development of Virgin Lands"

Ibragim-Pasha SadykovAlso won Medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw"

Oleg TsekovAlso won Order of Military Merit

About this person

Andrey Yegorovich Borovykh was a Soviet flying ace during World War II who was twice awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. After the war he remained in the military until 1989; during his career he achieved the rank of Colonel-General of Aviation and served as commander of the Soviet Air Defence Forces from 1969 to 1977.