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Nikolai Kamanin

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Soviet aviator and military commander (1908-1982)

WritersLived 1908 to 1982 · aged 73
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Nikolai Petrovich Kamanin was a Soviet Air Force general and a program manager in the Soviet space program. A career aviator, he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union in 1934 for the rescue of SS Chelyuskin crew from an improvised airfield on the frozen surface of the Chukchi Sea near Kolyuchin Island.

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Awards 37

1978Order of the October Revolution
1970Order of the Red Star
1969Order of Tudor Vladimirescu
1968Cross of Valour
1961Order of Lenin
1953Order of Lenin
1947Order of the Red Banner
1945Order of Suvorov, 2nd class
1944Order of the Red Banner
1944Order of Suvorov, 2nd class
1944Order of Kutuzov, 2nd class
1944Order of the Red Star
1934Hero of the Soviet Union
1934Order of Lenin
Gold Star medal
Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army"
Medal "For the Capture of Vienna"
Medal "For the Capture of Budapest"
Medal "For the Development of Virgin Lands"
Medal "Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Order of Tudor Vladimirescu
Order of Merit of the Hungarian People's Republic
Star of the Socialist Republic of Romania
Order Of The Defense Of The Fatherland
Order of Kutuzov
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 "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"
Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"
Guards unit
Jubilee Medal "30 years of the Victory in Khalkhin-Gol"
honorary citizen of Riga

Connected to Nikolai 6

Omar BradleyAlso won Order of KutuzovIvan TyulenevAlso won Jubilee Medal "30 years of the Victory in Khalkhin-Gol"Ion Gheorghe MaurerAlso won Star of the Socialist Republic of RomaniaBernard Freyberg, 1st Baron FreybergAlso won Cross of ValourMatvei ZakharovAlso won Medal "For the Capture of Vienna"Ivan Yefimovich PetrovAlso won Order of Merit of the Hungarian People's Republic

About this person

Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1908 to 1982 · aged 73
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18 languages

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