First awards to the partisans with order of Hero of the Soviet Union occurred on August 6, 1941; they were given to detachment commanders Pavlovskiy and Bumazhkov.
Roman Mashkov, the Hero of the Soviet Union, was born in the village on September 22, 1922.
During the Great Patriotic War, the authorities of the East Siberian Railway provided volunteer units to be dispatched to the front (20 railmen would be awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union), found resources for repairing military equipment, prepared rolling stock, and gradually increased the amount of freight from Siberia to the European part of the country.
Panfilov's Twenty-Eight Guardsmen, a group of soldiers from the Division who were all awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union
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Over 103,000 soldiers of the army were awarded awards and medals, 221 of them being awarded the decoration of the Hero of the Soviet Union, while Semyon Bogdanov was awarded the HSU's Gold Star twice.
This symbolic distinction for a city corresponds to the individual distinction Hero of the Soviet Union.
One Avia Arktika ANT-4, flown by Anatoly Liapidevsky played a key role in the rescue of the crew of the steamship Chelyuskin, which sank on 12 February 1934 after being trapped in ice near the Bering Strait, Liapidevsky being awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
It was named after Nikolai Ivanovich Kuznetsov (1911–44), a Russian intelligence agent, WWII partisan, and posthumous Hero of the Soviet Union.
Musa Gareyev (1922-1987), Bashkir Soviet ace, twice Hero of the Soviet Union
Vasili Glazunov (1896–1967), Soviet general, twice Hero of the Soviet Union
Vasily Kazakov (1898-1968), a Soviet artillery marshal and Hero of the Soviet Union
Nikolai Ivanovich Smirnov (1917–1992), Soviet Navy Admiral, Hero of the Soviet Union
Ivan Pozharsky (died 1938), Soviet military commissar, Hero of the Soviet Union
Sigizmund Levanevsky (1902–1937), Soviet aircraft pilot of Polish origin and a Hero of the Soviet Union
Ivan Alekseyevich Vorobyov (1921—1991) , Soviet Air dforce commander, twice Hero of the Soviet Union
Arseniy Vorozheykin(1912-2001) Soviet aviation commander, twice Hero of the Soviet Union
Yevgeni Nikolayevich Andreyev (1926–2000), Air Force Colonel, parachute tester, Hero of the Soviet Union (1962).