Vladimir Janjgava

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Soviet general (1907-1982)

PoliticiansLived 1907 to 1982 · aged 74

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Awards 23

Order of the Red Banner

Order of Lenin

Order of the Red Star

Order of the October Revolution

Order of the Badge of Honour

Hero of the Soviet Union

Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class

Order of Kutuzov, 2nd class

Order of the Red Banner of Labour

Medal "Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

Medal "For the Capture of Königsberg"

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

Medal "For Oder, Nysa and the Baltic"

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 "Forty 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"

Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Soviet Militia"

Order of the Republic

Connected to Vladimir 6

Stepan ChernyakAlso won Medal "For Oder, Nysa and the Baltic"

Filipp RudkinAlso won Medal "For the Capture of Königsberg"Arif HeydarovAlso won Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Soviet Militia"Nikolai SkripkoAlso won Order of Kutuzov, 2nd class

Mikhail PonomaryovAlso won Medal "For Oder, Nysa and the Baltic"

Shikhali GurbanovAlso won Medal "For the Capture of Königsberg"

About this person

Vladimir Nikolayevich Janjgava was a Georgian Soviet Army lieutenant general and Hero of the Soviet Union who participated in battles during the Winter War and was a specialist in infantry warfare during World War II. Janigava held command of various infantry regiments, divisions and corps of the Soviet Army. Janjgava served in a series of leadership roles after the war, including as Minister of Internal Affairs of Georgian SSR (1954 - 1958).