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.
Name | Date of awarding | Notes |
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Bulgarian Sergei | 24 March 1945 | |
Vladimir Bochkovsky | 26 April 1944 | |
Pyotr Vershigora | 7 August 1944 | |
Yuri Dobrovolsky | 22 June 1956 | |
Fyodor Zharchinsky | 27 June 1945 | |
Akim Karpenko | 13 March 1944 | |
Ivan Koval | 26 October 1943 | |
Stephan Kolesnichenko | 2 September 1943 | |
Alexey Krasilov | 15 May 1946 | |
Nikita Lebedenko | 23 September 1944 | |
Shabsa Mashkautsan | 29 April 1945 | |
Semyon Osadchy | 31 December 1936 | |
Mikhail Pavlotsky | 16 October 1943 | |
Mikhail Plugarev | 17 November 1943 | |
Sergei Poletsky | 5 May 1945 | |
Anatoly Sokolov | 12 April 1942 | |
Ion Soltys | 10 April 1945 |
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Grigory Sorokin | 31 May 1945 | |
Yevgeny Konstantinovich Fyodorov | 22 March 1938 | |
Nikolay Frolov | 24 March 1944 | |
Alexander Frumkin | 27 May 1976 |
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Georgy Chernienko | 24 July 1943 | |
Pavel Shcherbinko | 25 October 1943 | |
Hazi Aslanov was Talysh origin Azerbaijani major-general of the Soviet armoured troops during World War II. He was awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union title twice. The second Hero title was posthumously awarded on July 12, 1991, by Mikhail Gorbachev, at the constant recommendations by Heydar Aliyev.
Israfil Maharram oglu Mamedov was an Azerbaijani Red Army lieutenant and a Hero of the Soviet Union. He was the assistant commander of a platoon of the Soviet 42nd Rifle Regiment during World War II. He was the first Azerbaijani to be awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, on 11 December 1941. Mammadov was awarded the title for reportedly killing 70 German soldiers and three officers.
Vladimir Stoyanov Zaimov was a Bulgarian general who acted as a Soviet spy in the Kingdom of Bulgaria. He was made Hero of the Soviet Union for his actions against the Axis forces.
Mikhail Grigoryevich Solovyov was a Red Army Lieutenant and posthumous Hero of the Soviet Union. Solovyov was posthumously awarded the title for his leadership of a company during the Battle of the Dnieper, in which he reportedly killed 31 German soldiers. Solovyov was killed in action during the Battle of the Dnieper.
Nikolai Ilyich Usenko was a Red Army man and Hero of the Soviet Union. Usenko was awarded the title on 10 January 1944 for his actions during the Battle of the Dnieper in October 1943. During the battle, Usenko, a telephonist, was reported to have repaired numerous breaks in the line, often under German fire. He was also reported to have killed 25 German soldiers. Later he was seriously wounded and blinded by a German shell and medically retired from the Red Army. He subsequently returned to his home in Krasnoyarsk Krai and worked in the logging industry.
Nikolay Ivanovich Shchetinin was a Soviet Army lieutenant colonel and Hero of the Soviet Union. During the Battle of the Dnieper, Shchetinin was a senior lieutenant and was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union for his reported leadership of a company in capturing a village against numerically superior German forces.
Viktor Andreevich Turbin was a Red Army Junior Lieutenant and posthumous Hero of the Soviet Union. Turbin was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union and the Order of Lenin for his actions while leading a platoon during Operation Bagration in summer 1944. His platoon reportedly held a bridgehead on the Drut River against numerically superior German troops until the crossing of the remainder of Turbin's regiment.
Salahaddin Hasan oglu Kazimov was an Internal Troops Major general and a Hero of the Soviet Union. Kazimov was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 16 October 1943 for his leadership of an artillery battalion during the Battle of the Dnieper. In a twelve-day period during the battle, his battalion's guns were reported to have killed up to 180 German soldiers and destroyed eleven tanks. Postwar, Kazimov served in the Internal Troops and became Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Azerbaijan SSR. Kazimov and Minister of Internal Affairs Arif Heydarov were shot by an officer of the Shusha prison. He was wounded in an armed attack on the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Azerbaijan SSR and died on July 2, 1978.
Mikhail Mikhailovich Badyuk was a Soviet aviator in the 9th Guards Mine Torpedo Aviation Regiment of the 5th Mine-Torpedo Air Division in the Northern Fleet’s aviation division during the Second World War. For his actions in the military, he was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 22 February 1944.
Andrey Anatolevich Simonov is a Russian aviation historian. In addition to contributing to Russian Wikipedia on the subject, he has written several books and encyclopedias about Soviet aviation in World War II and the development of the aviation in the USSR. He was one of the few members of the Russian delegation invited to the premiere of the movie Haytarma, a film about twice Hero of the Soviet Union Amet-khan Sultan, who chose to attend.
Marat Ivanovich Kazey was a Soviet partisan, scout, pioneer-hero, and posthumous Hero of the Soviet Union.
Pavel Andreyevich Galkin was an officer of the Soviet military who held a number of posts in Soviet Naval Aviation, reaching the rank of colonel. A veteran of the Second World War, he was a recipient of the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
Pyotr Evstafievich Gora was a colonel of the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs, a participant of the Great Patriotic War, and a Hero of the Soviet Union (1943).