Vladimir Kokkinaki - Awards and Honours

Awards and Honours

Kokkinaki was awarded:

• The title "Hero of the Soviet Union" (in 1938 and 1957) Gold Stars Nos. 77 and 179);
• The title "Honoured Test Pilot of the USSR";
• Six Orders of Lenin (in 1936, 1938, 1939, 1945, 1951 and 1984);
• The Order of the October Revolution (in 1974);
• Three Orders of the Red Banner (1944, 1945 and 1957);
• Two Orders of the Patriotic War 1st class (in 1944 and 1947);
• Four Orders of the Red Star (1939, 1941, 1944 and 1969);
• The Medal "For Courage" in 1939;
• Multiple foreign medals, including the FAI Gold Air Medal in 1964. He was also awarded the titles "Distinguished Test Pilot of the Soviet Union" and "Distinguished Master of Sports of the Soviet Union" in 1959 and the Lenin Prize in 1960.

A street in Moscow has been named after him (fittingly, next to the Academician Ilyushin Street), and a bronze bust was erected in his home city of Novorossiysk on the occasion of the second award of the HSU title and Gold Star. A tanker, built in Kherson in 1985, is also named in his honor.

A heavy-lift airplane Volga-Dnepr Ilyushin Il-76TD-90VD (RA-76950, cn 2043420697) was named in his honour. An Aeroflot Russian Airlines Ilyushin Il-96 (RA-96011, cn 74393201008) has also been named in his honour.