• the Azerbaijani geologist Farman Salmanov, who discovered huge oil fields of Western Siberia in 1961, was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor at the unusually young age of 37?

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Hero of the Soviet Union

• 78 soldiers of the Soviet 25th Rifle Division were awarded the title, Hero of the Soviet Union, the highest honorary title and the superior degree of distinction of that nation?
• Hero of the Soviet Union Ivan Sidorenko, a World War II Soviet sniper, destroyed a tank and three tractors, in addition to killing five hundred Wehrmacht soldiers?
• Alexander Novikov, double Hero of the Soviet Union and pioneering commander of the Soviet Air Force, was used to frame Marshal Zhukov, then thrown in prison by Joseph Stalin?
• Endel Puusepp became a Hero of the Soviet Union after flying a Soviet delegation over the front line from Moscow to Washington and back to negotiate the opening of the Western Front?
• Israfil Mamedov, the first Azeri Hero of the Soviet Union, killed about seventy Germans, including three officers, during the Battle of Moscow on December 3, 1941?
• Pavel Antseborenko was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union in 1944 for detonating a live hand grenade to avoid capture, killing himself and several German troops in the process?
• Yakov Kreizer (pictured) was the first Soviet general awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union title during World War II?
• the first foreigner decorated in World War Two with the highest Soviet medal, Hero of the Soviet Union, was a Czechoslovak soldier, Otakar Jaroš after the Battle of Sokolovo in 1943?