Andrei Antonovich Grechko was a Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union during the Cold War. He served as the Soviet Minister of Defence from 1967 to 1976.
Roman Spiridonovich Mashkov was the commander of a Soviet reconnaissance platoon during World War II. He was awarded the Soviet Union's highest award for military valour, the Hero of the Soviet Union.
Ivan Alekseyevich Vorobyov was an Il-2 pilot in the Soviet Air Force during World War II who was twice awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.
Mikhail Vasilyevich Kuznetsov was a regimental commander flying ace in the Soviet Air Forces during the Second World War who was twice awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. After the war he became a general-major.
Aleksey Yefimovich Mazurenko was the commander of the 7th Guards Assault Aviation Regiment in the Black Sea Fleet during World War II. He was twice awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union during the war and remained in the military afterwards, reaching the rank of General-major.
Ivan Nikitich Konev was a Soviet major general during World War II and a Hero of the Soviet Union. Konev led the 3rd Guards Airborne Division through most of the war and was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union for his leadership of the division during the Second Jassy–Kishinev Offensive. Postwar, Konev continued to serve in the Soviet Army and became the deputy commander of multiple army corps.
Alexei Nazarovich Arapov was a Soviet officer, chief of staff of the 3rd Guards Airborne Division, and a Hero of the Soviet Union. Arapov was awarded the title posthumously for his leadership during the Battle of the Dnieper.
Alexander Andreyevich Kolesov was a Soviet officer and Hero of the Soviet Union. Kolesov was awarded the title for his actions during the Battle of the Dnieper. Due to the wounds he suffered during the fighting, Kolesov was not able to hold another combat post during the war. However, he returned to the Army postwar and eventually retired as a colonel. He later worked as a quality controller within the Soviet military equipment procurement organization.
Pyotr Ivanovich Kuznetsov was a Red Army junior sergeant during World War II and a Hero of the Soviet Union. Kuznetsov was awarded the title for his actions in the 1943 Battle of Kiev, where he reportedly killed 41 German soldiers. He was seriously wounded and discharged soon after. After the war, Kuznetsov lived in Kaluga.
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.
Mikhail Denisenko was a Red Army Major general and Hero of the Soviet Union. He fought in World War II with the Soviet airborne, leading the 36th Guards Rifle Division and 12th Guards Airborne Division. Postwar, Denisenko commanded the 103rd Guards Airborne Division, before his death in 1949 in a parachute accident.
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.
Grigory Ivanovich Karizhsky was a Soviet Army Major general and Hero of the Soviet Union. In 1915, he was drafted into the Imperial Russian Army and graduated from warrant officer school before being demobilized after the October Revolution. Karizhsky joined the Red Army soon after and became a cavalry commander, fighting in the Russian Civil War. He eventually became a regimental commander by 1932, and was still in that position at the beginning of the Great Purge. In 1938 he was dismissed from the army and imprisoned but was reinstated in December 1939. He was rearrested a month later but reinstated in the spring of 1941. After Operation Barbarossa, Karizhsky became commander of the 32nd and then 202nd Airborne Brigades in the Far East. He was appointed 15th Army deputy commander, still in the Far East, in August 1942.
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.
Zakhar Karpovich Slyusarenko was a Soviet tank officer who rose from battalion commander to brigade commander during World War II. He was twice awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
The Marshal of the Soviet Union K. K. Rokossovsky Far Eastern Higher Combined Arms Command School, also known by its abbreviation DVOKU, is a military academy of the Russian Armed Forces.
Dmitry Gavrilovich Sukhovarov was a Soviet Army colonel and a Hero of the Soviet Union.
Khamazan Gataullovich Gizatullin was the commander of a 45-mm gun of the 63rd separate anti-tank fighter battery of the Red Army during World War II and a recipient of the title Hero of the Soviet Union.
Georgy Stepanovich Ivanishchev was a Soviet Army major general and a Hero of the Soviet Union.
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