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Sergey Afanasyev

Engineer and minister of the Soviet Union (1918-2001) · Russia · On the map · Scientists · Died at 82

Sergey Aleksandrovich Afanasyev was a Russian engineer and later politician who was the leading figure in the Soviet Union's missile and space program. He was the Minister of General Machine Building from 1965 to 1983.

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2001Died13 May 20011996Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd classAward1983Order of the Red Banner of LabourAward1982Order of the October RevolutionAward1978Hero of Socialist LabourAward1976USSR State PrizeAward1975Hero of Socialist LabourAwardOrder of LeninAward1971Order of LeninAward1968Order of LeninAward1966Order of LeninAward1961Order of LeninAward1956Order of the Red Banner of LabourAward1952Stalin PrizeAward1945Order of the Red StarAward1918Born30 August 1918

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Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class1996
Order of the Red Banner of Labour1983
Order of the October Revolution1982
Order of Lenin1978
Hero of Socialist Labour1978
USSR State Prize1976
Order of Lenin1975
Hero of Socialist Labour1975
Lenin Prize1973
Order of Lenin1971
Order of Lenin1968
Order of Lenin1966
Order of Lenin1961
Order of Lenin1958
Order of the Red Banner of Labour1956
Stalin Prize1952
Order of the Red Star1945
Medal "Veteran of Labour"
Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"
Order of Merit (Ukraine), 2nd class
Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
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"
Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"
Stalin Prize, 2nd degree
Russian Federation Government Certificate of Honour
Order of Merit
Russian Federation Presidential Certificate of Gratitude

About this person

Country
Russia
Category
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1918 to 2001 · aged 82

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