He was awarded the Order of the Red Star, of the Great Patriotic War 1st class, and six other medals.
Mykola Lysenko | Mykola Tomenko | Sergei Rudenko | Mykola Yurchenko | Mykola Skrypnyk | Mykola Samokysh | Mykola Milchev | Mykola Melnychenko | Mykola Katerynchuk | Mykola Kapustiansky | Mykola Burachek |
Clarke peppered the novel with names of various Soviet dissidents, including physicists Andrei Sakharov and Yuri Orlov, human-rights activists Mykola Rudenko and Anatoly Marchenko, Russian Orthodox activist Gleb Yakunin, among others.