Andrei Tupolev - Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors

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  • Hero of Socialist Labour, three times (1945, 1957, 1972)
  • Eight Orders of Lenin (1933, 1945, 1947, January 1949, December 1949, 1953, 1958, 1968)
  • Order of the October Revolution (1971)
  • Order of the Red Banner of Labour, twice (1927, 1933)
  • Order of the Red Star (1933)
  • Order of the Badge of Honour (1936)
  • Order of Suvorov, 2nd class (1944)
  • Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class (1943)
  • Lenin Prize (1957)
  • Stalin Prize (1943, 1948, 1949, 1952)
  • USSR State Prize (1972)
  • Order of Georgi Dimitrov (People's Republic of Bulgaria, 1964)
  • Laureate of the Zhukovskii Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1958)
  • Gold Medal of the FAI Aviation (1958)
  • Leonardo da Vinci Prize (1971)
  • Gold Medal of the Society of the founders of Air France (1971)
  • Honorary Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society of Great Britain (1970) and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (1971)
  • Honorary Citizen of Paris (1964), New York and the city of Zhukovsky, Moscow Oblast (1968)

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