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Yevgeny Pepelyaev

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Soviet fighter pilot of the Korean War (1918-2013)

Lived 1918 to 2013 · aged 94
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Yevgeny Georgievich Pepelyaev was a Soviet fighter pilot in the Korean War; most Russian sources credit him as the second-highest scoring pilot in the war with 19 shootdowns, placing him only below Nikolai Sutyagin.

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Awards 28

Order of the Red Banner
Order of Lenin
Hero of the Soviet Union
Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class
Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class
Order of the Red Star
Medal "For Battle Merit"
Sino-Soviet Friendship Medal
aircraft pilot qualification (class)
Medal "Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Jubilee Medal "Forty 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"
Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"
Zhukov Medal
Order of the Patriotic War
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 "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Medal "For the Victory over Japan"
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 "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Medal "For Impeccable Service"

Connected to Yevgeny 6

Magomed TolboyevAlso won aircraft pilot qualification (class)Yevgeny TyazhelnikovAlso won Jubilee Medal "65 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"Dmitri GlinkaAlso won Sino-Soviet Friendship MedalKonstantin ListovAlso won Medal "For the Victory over Japan"Miyagi YotokuAlso won Order of the Patriotic WarNikolai Alexandrovich GagenAlso won Sino-Soviet Friendship Medal

About this person

Yevgeny Georgievich Pepelyaev was a Soviet fighter pilot in the Korean War; most Russian sources credit him as the second-highest scoring pilot in the war with 19 shootdowns, placing him only below Nikolai Sutyagin. However, some Western sources indicate him to be the top ace of the war, and he claimed to have 23 victories in his memoir, which would put him above Sutyagin's 22 shootdowns.

Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1918 to 2013 · aged 94
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