Zakhar Sorokin

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Soviet aviator (1917-1978)

WritersLived 1917 to 1978 · aged 61

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Languages7

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Awards 12

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

Order of the Red Banner

Order of Lenin

Hero of the Soviet Union

Medal "For the Defence of the Soviet Transarctic"

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 the Armed Forces of the USSR"

Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

Soviet Guards Badge

Order of the British Empire

Connected to Zakhar 6

Ekaterina GenievaAlso won Order of the British Empire

Nikolai KirtokAlso won Soviet Guards Badge

Aleksandr ShabalinAlso won Medal "For the Defence of the Soviet Transarctic"

Vitaly FokinAlso won Medal "For the Defence of the Soviet Transarctic"Leonid BelousovAlso won Soviet Guards Badge

Vidyagauri NeelkanthAlso won Order of the British Empire

About this person

Zakhar Artyomovich Sorokin was a Soviet fighter pilot and flying ace who flew in combat with prosthetic feet from 1943 to 1945, having lost his feet to frostbite in 1941 after crashing in tundra in his MiG-3. He was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union and the Order of the British Empire for his perseverance, and after the war he wrote several memoirs.