Nikolai Ogarkov

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Marshal of the Soviet Union (1917-1994)

PoliticiansLived 1917 to 1994 · aged 76

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Nikolai Vasilyevich Ogarkov was a prominent Soviet military personality. He was promoted to Marshal of the Soviet Union in 1977. Between 1977 and 1984, he was Chief of the General Staff of the USSR.

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Ogarkov in the Red Army (1940s)

Ogarkov (right) along with other Soviet officers of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany (1961)

Ogarkov (right) and Viktor Kulikov (left), following presentation of their Marshal's star (1977)

Ogarkov (left) with Defence Minister Dmitry Ustinov (center), during Exercise Zapad-81 (1981)

Ogarkov visiting Soviet troops stationed in Syria

Ogarkov's grave at Novodevichy Cemetery

Awards 21

Order of Lenin

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

Order of the Red Banner

Hero of the Soviet Union

Order of the October Revolution

Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class

Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class

Order of Suvorov, 1st class

Order of the Red Star

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

Medal "For Battle Merit"

Medal "For the Defence of the Soviet Transarctic"

Medal "For the Capture of Budapest"

Medal "For Strengthening of Brotherhood in Arms"

Medal "For the Development of Virgin Lands"

Medal "Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

Lenin Prize

Order of Tudor Vladimirescu

Medal "For the strengthening of friendship in arms"

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

Commander of the Order of Polonia Restituta

Connected to Nikolai 6

Ion Gheorghe MaurerAlso won Order of Tudor Vladimirescu

Yevgeny KhaldeiAlso won Medal "For the Defence of the Soviet Transarctic"

Matvei ZakharovAlso won Medal "For the Capture of Budapest"

Mikhail KatukovAlso won Medal "For the strengthening of friendship in arms"

Yulii KharitonAlso won Medal "For the Development of Virgin Lands"

Semyon LavochkinAlso won Order of Suvorov, 1st class

About this person

Nikolai Vasilyevich Ogarkov was a prominent Soviet military personality. He was promoted to Marshal of the Soviet Union in 1977. Between 1977 and 1984, he was Chief of the General Staff of the USSR. He became widely known in the West when he became the Soviet military's spokesman following the shootdown of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 near Moneron Island in September 1983. He was dismissed as Chief of the General Staff on 6 September 1984.