Dmitry Yazov

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Soviet minister of defence (1924-2020)

PoliticiansLived 1924 to 2020 · aged 95

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Fame61.1

Momentum10.0

Languages30

In century#4,627

Also inDeutsch

Photos 4

Yazov in 1941

Minister of Defense Dmitry Yazov (left) during a visit to the United States in 1989

Yazov (right) and Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu in 4 February 2020

Awards 29

2020Jubilee Medal "75 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

2020Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class

2014Order of Alexander Nevsky

2010Jubilee Medal "65 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

2009Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class

2005Jubilee Medal "60 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

2004Order of Honour

1997Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"

1995Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

1991Order of the October Revolution

1985Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class

1985Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

1981Order of Lenin

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

1973Honorary Certificate of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Azerbaijan SSR

1971Order of Lenin

1963Order of the Red Banner

1953Medal "For Battle Merit"

1945Order of the Red Star

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

Medal "In Commemoration of the 300th Anniversary of Saint Petersburg"

Medal "For Distinction in Guarding the State Border of the USSR"

Medal "For the Defence of Leningrad"

Medal "For Strengthening of Brotherhood in Arms"

Medal "For the Development of Virgin Lands"

Zhukov Medal

Medal "Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

Jubilee Medal "70 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Medal "For Impeccable Service", 2nd class

Connected to Dmitry 6

Kim Jong-unAlso won Jubilee Medal "75 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Mikhail KalashnikovAlso won Medal "For Distinction in Guarding the State Border of the USSR"

Heydar AliyevAlso won Honorary Certificate of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Azerbaijan SSR

Boris TadićAlso won Jubilee Medal "65 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Yury LuzhkovAlso won Medal "In Commemoration of the 300th Anniversary of Saint Petersburg"

Valentina MatviyenkoAlso won Medal "In Commemoration of the 300th Anniversary of Saint Petersburg"

About this person

Dmitry Timofeyevich Yazov was a Marshal of the Soviet Union. A veteran of the Great Patriotic War, Yazov served as Minister of Defence from 1987 until he was arrested for his part in the 1991 August coup, four months before the fall of the Soviet Union. Yazov was the last person to be appointed to the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union on 28 April 1990 and the only Marshal born in Siberia. At the time of his death on 25 February 2020, he was the last living Marshal of the Soviet Union.