Vasily Reshetnikov

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Soviet Air Force colonel general, Hero of the Soviet Union (1919-2023)

PoliticiansLived 1919 to 2023 · aged 103

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Vasily Reshetnikov in 2016

Russian Air Force Tu-160 supersonic strategic-bomber 'Vasily Reshetnikov'

Awards 40

2010Order of Honour

1999Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class

1997Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"

1985Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class

1985Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold

1980Order of the October Revolution

1975Order "For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR", 3rd class

1974Order of 9 September 1944

1973Officer of the Order of Polonia Restituta

1971Order of Military Merit

1970Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"

1965Merited Military Pilot of the USSR

1945Order of Alexander Nevsky

1945Medal "For the Capture of Budapest"

1945Medal "For the Capture of Königsberg"

1945Medal "For the Capture of Berlin"

1944Order of the Red Banner

1944Medal "For the Defence of Moscow"

1943Hero of the Soviet Union

1942Order of Lenin

1942Order of the Red Star

1942Medal "For the Defence of Leningrad"

1942Medal "For the Defence of Stalingrad"

Medal "For Battle Merit"

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

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 "60 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Jubilee Medal "65 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Jubilee Medal "70 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Zhukov Medal

Jubilee Medal "300 Years of the Russian Navy"

Jubilee Medal Medal "In Commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of Leningrad"

Medal "In Commemoration of the 300th Anniversary of Saint Petersburg"

Medal "Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

Medal "For Strengthening of Brotherhood in Arms"

Jubilee Medal "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy"

Jubilee Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

Connected to Vasily 6

Ivan AgayantsAlso won Order of 9 September 1944

Sultan SosnaliyevAlso won Merited Military Pilot of the USSR

Lyudmila MakarovaAlso won Jubilee Medal Medal "In Commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of Leningrad"

Konstantin SmeshkoAlso won Order of Military Merit Vladimir BushinAlso won Jubilee Medal "70 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Alexander Alexandrovich VolkovAlso won Medal "In Commemoration of the 300th Anniversary of Saint Petersburg"

About this person

Vasily Vasilyevich Reshetnikov was a Soviet pilot who served during World War II. Reshetnikov flew 307 missions, mainly as a pilot of a long-range bomber, and in the summer of 1943, received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. After World War II, he was named commander of an Aviation Division, Air Corps. Reshetnikov was subsequently promoted to Colonel General and took command of the Long-Range Aviation branch from 1969 to 1980 and was made Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force of the Soviet Union from 1980 to 1986.