Alexander Pokryshkin - Honours and Awards

Honours and Awards

Soviet awards
  • Three times Hero of the Soviet Union (24 May 1943 - № 993, 24 August 1943 - II № 10, 19 August 1944 - III № 1)
  • Six Orders of Lenin (22 December 1941 - № 7086; 24 May 1943 - № 9600; 6 March 1963 - № 124904; 21 October 1967 - № 344099; 21 February 1978 - № 429973; 5 March 1983 - № 400362)
  • Order of the October Revolution (5 March 1973 - № 1793)
  • Order of the Red Banner, four times (22 April 1943 - № 66983; 18 July 1943 - № 8305 / 2; 24 December 1943 - № 448 / 3; 20 April 1953 - № 1392 / 4)
  • Order of Suvorov, 2nd class, twice (6 April 1945 - № 1484; 29 May 1945 - № 1662)
  • Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class (11 March 1985 - № 537 850)
  • Order of the Red Star, twice (6 November 1947 - № 2762070; 4 June 1955 - № 3341640)
  • Order for Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR, 3rd class (30 April 1975 - № 0039)
  • Medal for Combat Service (3 November 1944)
  • Medal "For the Defence of the Caucasus" (1 May 1944)
  • Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (9 May 1945)
  • Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945" (6 June 1945)
  • Medal "For the Liberation of Prague" (9 June 1945)
  • Medal "For the Capture of Berlin" (9 June 1945)
  • Jubilee Medal "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy"(22 February 1948)
  • Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow" (7 April 1951)
  • Jubilee Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" (18 December 1957)
  • Medal "For the Development of Virgin Lands" (5 November 1964)
  • Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945" (7 May 1965)
  • Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" (26 December 1967)
  • Medal "For Military Valour - To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" (20 April 1970)
  • Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945" (25 April 1975)
  • Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" (28 January 1978)
  • Medal "For Strengthening Military Cooperation" (31 May 1980)
  • Medal "In Commemoration of the 1500th Anniversary of Kiev" (17 May 1982)
  • Medal "Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR" (30 April 1984)
  • Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945" (12 April 1985)
  • Honorary Citizen of: Mariupol, Novosibirsk, Bălți (Moldova), etc.
Foreign awards
  • Distinguished Service Medal (USA)
  • Order of the People's Republic of Bulgaria, 1st class (Bulgaria)
  • Order of Tudor Vladimirescu, 2nd and 3rd classes (Romania)
  • Order of Karl Marx (East Germany)
  • Silver Cross of the Virtuti Militari (Poland)
  • Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (Poland)
  • Order of Sukhbaatar (Mongolia)
  • Order of the Red Banner (Mongolia)

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