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Ivan Taranenko

Hero of the Soviet Union (1912-1995) · Russia · On the map · Died at 82

Ivan Andreevich Taranenko was a Soviet fighter pilot, flying ace, and regimental commander in World War II who went on to become a general.

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1995Died4 March 19951985Order of the Patriotic War, 1st classAward1953Order of the Red BannerAward1949Order of the Red StarAward1945Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"AwardOrder of Bogdan Khmelnitsky, 2nd classAward1944Medal "For Battle Merit"AwardMedal "For the Defence of the Caucasus"AwardOrder of the Red BannerAward1943Hero of the Soviet UnionAwardOrder of LeninAwardOrder of the Patriotic War, 1st classAwardOrder of the Red BannerAward1942Order of the Red BannerAward1940Order of the Red BannerAward1912Born28 April 1912

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Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class1985
Order of the Red Banner1953
Order of the Red Star1949
Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky, 2nd class1945
Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"1945
Order of the Red Banner1944
Medal "For Battle Merit"1944
Medal "For the Defence of the Caucasus"1944
Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class1943
Order of the Red Banner1943
Hero of the Soviet Union1943
Order of Lenin1943
Order of the Red Banner1942
Order of the Red Banner1940
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"
Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
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 the Capture of Budapest"
Zhukov Medal
Medal "For the Liberation of Prague"
Medal "Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky

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Russia
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Deceased
Dates
Lived 1912 to 1995 · aged 82