Yury Votintsev

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Soviet colonel general

Lived 1919 to 2005 · aged 86

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Colonel General Yuriy Vsyevolodovich Votintsev was a commander of the Soviet Air Defense's Missile Defense Units.

Awards 17

1984Hero of Socialist Labour

Zhukov Medal

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

Order of the Red Banner

Order of Lenin

Order of the Red Star

Order of the Badge of Honour

Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class

Order of Alexander Nevsky

Medal "For Battle Merit"

Medal "For Strengthening of Brotherhood in Arms"

Medal "For the Development of Virgin Lands"

Jubilee Medal "60 Years of Victory 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"

Medal "Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

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

Connected to Yury 6

Gennady KulikAlso won Medal "For the Development of Virgin Lands"Vladimir LobanokAlso won Medal "For the Development of Virgin Lands"

Sergei DjatšenkoAlso won Medal "For the Development of Virgin Lands"

Mykhailo HrechukhaAlso won Medal "For the Development of Virgin Lands"Ziya NurievAlso won Medal "For the Development of Virgin Lands"Tofig AghahuseynovAlso won Medal "For the Development of Virgin Lands"

About this person

Colonel General Yuriy Vsyevolodovich Votintsev was a commander of the Soviet Air Defense's Missile Defense Units. He is best known for the revelation in his memoirs in 1998 of the 1983 incident involving Stanislav Petrov in which the latter probably prevented an inadvertent nuclear war between the United States and the former Soviet Union.

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Status

deceased

Dates

Lived 1919 to 2005 · aged 86

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