List of Moldovan Heroes of the Soviet Union

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The following is a list of Heroes of the Soviet Union who were born or lived in the Moldavian SSR or were of who were of Moldovan ethnicity.

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NameDate of awardingNotes
Bulgarian Sergei24 March 1945
Vladimir Bochkovsky26 April 1944
Pyotr Vershigora 7 August 1944
Yuri Dobrovolsky22 June 1956
Fyodor Zharchinsky27 June 1945
Akim Karpenko13 March 1944
Ivan Koval26 October 1943
Stephan Kolesnichenko2 September 1943
Alexey Krasilov15 May 1946
Nikita Lebedenko 23 September 1944
Shabsa Mashkautsan 29 April 1945
Semyon Osadchy31 December 1936
Mikhail Pavlotsky16 October 1943
Mikhail Plugarev17 November 1943
Sergei Poletsky5 May 1945
Anatoly Sokolov12 April 1942
Ion Soltys10 April 1945
  • A monument in his honor was unveiled in May 2021 in the presence of former Moldovan president Igor Dodon and parliament speaker Zinaida Greceanîi. [1]
  • In the house where he was born, a house-museum in his honor was inaugurated in 1958.
  • A monument to him was erected in his native village on January 26, 1965. [2]
Grigory Sorokin31 May 1945
Yevgeny Konstantinovich Fyodorov 22 March 1938
Nikolay Frolov24 March 1944
Alexander Frumkin 27 May 1976
Georgy Chernienko24 July 1943
Pavel Shcherbinko25 October 1943

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References

  1. "Monument to Hero of the Soviet Union Ion Soltys unveiled in Minsk". eng.belta.by. 2021-05-06. Retrieved 2021-05-08.
  2. "Memorial Home-Museum of Ion Soltys | Pridnestrovie". pridnestrovie-tourism.com. Retrieved 2021-05-08.
  3. A.N. Frumkin Institute of physical chemistry and electrochemistry RAS :: The history of Institute of physical chemistry Archived 2005-05-23 at the Wayback Machine