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Pyotr Dementyev

Soviet minister of aviation industry, colonel general, Hero of Socialist Labour (twice) · Russia · On the map · Politicians · Lived 1907 to 1977 · aged 70

Pyotr Vasilyevich Dementyev was a Soviet statesman who served twice as Minister of Aviation Industry from 1953 to 1957 and again from 1965 until his death in 1977 overseeing the post-war shift to jet and large-scale civil production in the USSR's aircraft sector.

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1977Died14 May 1977Hero of Socialist LabourAwardOrder of LeninAward1967Order of LeninAward1966Order of the Red Banner of LabourAward1957Order of LeninAward1956Order of the Red BannerAward1953Stalin PrizeAward1949Order of LeninAward1945Order of Kutuzov, 1st classAward1944Medal "For Battle Merit"AwardOrder of Suvorov, 2nd classAward1941Order of LeninAward1940Order of the Red Banner of LabourAward1939Order of LeninAward1907Born24 January 1907

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Awards

Order of Lenin1977

Hero of Socialist Labour1977

Order of Lenin1971

Order of Lenin1967

Order of the Red Banner of Labour1966

Order of Lenin1963

Order of Lenin1957

Order of the Red Banner1956

Stalin Prize1953

Order of the Red Star1951

Order of Lenin1949

Order of Kutuzov, 1st class1945

Order of Lenin1944

Order of Suvorov, 2nd class1944

Medal "For Battle Merit"1944

Order of Lenin1941

Hero of Socialist Labour1941

Order of the Red Banner of Labour1940

Order of Lenin1939

Medal "For the Victory over Japan"

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

Medal "For the Defence of Moscow"

Medal "Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

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"

Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"

About this person

He held the rank of colonel general engineer (1976), was twice named Hero of Socialist Labour, and sat on the CPSU Central Committee while serving as a deputy of the Supreme Soviet.

Country

Russia

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