Honours and Awards
- This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the Russian Wikipedia.
- Hero of the Soviet Union, twice (1 February 1958, 16 October 1973)
- Six Orders of Lenin (December 1942, 1945, 1 February 1958, October 1963, 22.02.1968, 16 October 1973)
- Order of the Red Banner, three times (1941, 1944, 1950)
- Order of Suvorov, 1st class, twice (1944, 1945), 2nd class (February 1943)
- Order of Kutuzov, 1st class, twice (1943, 1944)
- Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky, 1st class (January 1944)
- Honorary weapon with gold National Emblem of the Soviet Union (22 February 1968)
- Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary since the Birth of Vladimir Il'ich Lenin"
- Medal "For the Defence of the Caucasus"
- Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
- 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 "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army"
- Jubilee Medal "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy"
- Jubilee Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
- Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
- Hero of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (5 October 1969)
- Virtuti Militari, 1st class (Poland)
- Cross of Grunwald, 1st class (Poland)
- Order of Klement Gottwald (East Germany)
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| Preceded by Rodion Malinovsky |
Minister of Defence of Soviet Union 1967–1976 |
Succeeded by Dmitriy Ustinov |
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| Preceded by Ivan Konev |
Supreme Commander of the Unified Armed Forces of the Warsaw Treaty Organization 1960–1967 |
Succeeded by Ivan Yakubovsky |
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| Name | Grechko, Andrei |
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| Date of birth | 17 October 1903 |
| Place of birth | Golodaevka village, Russian Empire |
| Date of death | 26 April 1976 |
| Place of death | Moscow, Russian SFSR |
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—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)