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- Viktor Argun (in Russian) - first Abkhazian pilot
- Dzhambulat Kanukov (in Russian) - first Ossetian pilot
- Pyotr Buiko (in Russian) - Doctor and partisan
- Ivan Dobrobabin (in Russian) - one of Panfilov's 28 guardsmen turned traitor
- Kirill Balatukov (in Russian) - first Crimean Tatar general in Russian army
- Yevgeny Bereznyak (in Russian)
Prewar HSU[edit]
- Viktor Kholzunov (in Russian)
WWII people & pilots[edit]
Korean war pilots[edit]
- Pyotr Milaushkin (in Russian)
- Vladimir Zabelin (in Russian)
- Vladimir Alefeev (in Russian)
- Pavel Antonov (in Russian)
- Stepan Artemchenko (in Russian)
- Vasily Shulev (in Russian)
- Aleksey Mitusov (in Russian)
- Viktor Kolyadin (in Russian) - HSU
- Yevgeny Stelmakh (in Russian) - HSU
- Anatoly Bordun (in Russian)
- Viktor Borovkov (in Russian)
- Nikolai Stroykov (in Russian)
- Vasily Seryogin (in Russian)
- Viktor Dudnichenko (in Russian)
- Pavel Shevelyov (in Russian)
- Anatoly Karelin - stub
- Serafim Subbotin - stub
- Mikhail Mikhin - stub
- Arkady Boytsov - stub
- Boris Siskov - stub
- Semyon Fedorets - stub
"Not one step back!"[edit]
Chernobyl firefighters[edit]
Foreign Heroes of the Soviet Union[edit]
- Stěpan Vajda (in Russian) - Czech
- Marcel Lefevre (in Russian) - French
World War II snipers[edit]
Generals and marshalls[edit]
- Boris Kirpikov (in Russian) RSFSR Supreme Soviet member and general
- Nikolai Oslikovsky (general) (in Russian) - cavalry general who got into a spat with Movlid Visaitov
- Pavel Brikel (in Russian) - cavalry general
- Nikolai Trusov (general) (in Russian)
- Filipp Rybalchenko (in Russian) - executed for privately critisizing Stalin
- Filipp Agaltsov (in Russian)
- Yevgeny Loginov (in Russian)
- Ivan Borzov (in Russian)
- Georgy Zimin (in Russian)
- Ivan Pstygo (in Russian)
- Aleksandr Silantev (in Russian)
- Grigory Skorikov (in Russian)
- Pyotr Kirsanov (in Russian)
- Sergey Varentsov (in Russian)
- Pavel Poluboyarov (in Russian)
- Gany Safiullin (in Russian)
Aviators who commited "fire taran" (or multiple taran) attacks[edit]
- Khusen Andrukhaev (in Russian) - first Circassian HSU (Dibs - PlanespotterA320)
- Erdin Delikov (in Russian) - first Kalmyk HSU (Dibs - PlanespotterA320)
- Garmazhap Garmayev (in Russian) - first Buryat HSU
- Viktor Pislegin (in Russian) - first Udmurt HSU
- Qochqar Durdiyev (in Russian) - first Uzbek HSU
- Negmat Karabayev (in Russian) - first Tajik HSU
- Masim Yakubov (in Russian) - first Tuvan HSU
- Fyodor Popov (in Russian) - first Yakut HSU
- Kurban Durdy (in Russian) - first Turkmen HSU
Military Women in Red[edit]
- Mariya Fortus (in Russian) - WWII partisan and chief of staff of the "night witches"
- Militsa Kazarinova (in Russian) - Chief of Staff of women's 125th Gv BAP
- Galina Shurepova (in Russian) - first female diver of the Soviet Navy
- Mariya Runt (in Russian) - Party organizer of the "night witches"
- Polina Nedyalkova (in Russian) - First female Bulgarian Major-general
- Lyudmila Kalinina (in Russian) - tank crew engineer in WWII
- Yevgeniya Kostrikova (in Russian) - commanded tank company
- Mariya Mikhalyova (in Russian)
- Vera Artamonovna (in Russian) - sniper, 89 kills
- Mariya Zubchenko (in Russian) - sniper, 83 kills
- Nina Belobrova (in Russian) - sniper, 70 kills
Living people[edit]
- Adam Osmayev (in Russian) - Dzhokhar Dudayev Battalion commander
Gold star peoples of exiled nations[edit]
- Mukhazhir Ummayev (in Russian) - Balkar HSU
- Erentsen Badmaev (in Russian) - Kalmyk HSU
- Bator Basanov (in Russian) - Kalmyk HSU
- Basan Gorodovikov (in Russian) - Kalmyk HSU
- Lidzhi Mandzhiev (in Russian) - Kalmyk HSU
- Nikolai Sandzhirov (in Russian) - Kalmyk HSU
- Mikhail Selgikov (in Russian) - Kalmyk HSU
- Biembel Khecheev (in Russian) - Kalmyk HSU
- Valery Ochirov (in Russian) - Kalmyk HSU
- Erdin Delikov (in Russian) - Kalmyk HSU
- Khalmurze Kumukov (in Russian) - Karachay HSU
- Minur Mamedov (in Russian) - Meskhetian Turk PKOS
- Magomed Uzuyev (in Russian) - Chechen Hero Russia
- Yunus Karaketov (in Russian) - Karachay Hero Russia
- Khamzat Badakhov (in Russian) - Karachay Hero Russia
- Soltan-Khamit Bidzhiev (in Russian) - Karachay Hero Russia
- Magomet Gerbekov (in Russian) - Karachay Hero Russia
- Dugerby Uzdenov (in Russian) - Karachay Hero Russia
- Kichibatyr Khairkizov (in Russian) - Karachay Hero Russia
- Kharun Chochuev (in Russian) - Karachay Hero Russia
War criminals/Nazi collaborators[edit]
- Bronislav Antilevsky (in Russian) - HSU turned Nazi
- Georgy Zhilenkov (in Russian) - brigade commissar turned collaborator with Nazis
- Boris Rikhter (in Russian) - Major-general, collaborator
- Pavel Bogdanov (in Russian) - Major-general, collaborator
Arrested military people[edit]
- Mikhail Kossa (in Russian) - executed HSU, rehabilitated posthumously
- Nikolai Kirillov (in Russian) - Major-general, executed
- Andrei Grigoriev (in Russian) - Major-general, executed
- Ivan Kopets (in Russian) - HSU, major-general; executed, rehabilitated
- Layosh Gavro (in Russian) - Hungarian leader in Russian civil war; repressed
- Pavel Artemenko (in Russian) - Major-general; repressed, rehabilitated
- Mirra Sankhnovskaya (in Russian) - division commander
Prisoners of Conscience/Rehabilitations[edit]
- Pyotr Bendel (in Russian) - Postal card artist, gulag prisoner
- Viktor Baranov (counterfeiter) (in Russian) #1 Soviet counterfeiter
- Grigory Bakhchivandzhi (in Russian)
- Aleksandr Bryandinsky (in Russian)
- Georgy Shiyanov (in Russian)
- Fyodor Opadchy (in Russian)
- Boris Galitsky (in Russian)
- Mark Gallai (in Russian)
- Andrey Kochetkov (in Russian)
- Mikhail Nyukhtikov (in Russian)
- Mikhail Tvelenev (in Russian)
- Vasily Pavlov (pilot) (in Russian)
- Aleksey Butakov (in Russian) - Russian admiral and explorer
- Mikhail Belousov (in Russian) - Captain on the icebreaker Joseph Stalin
- Oleksy Babenko (in Russian) - First to land a Mi-4 helicopter at the North Pole
- Andrey Yefremov (in Russian)
- Dmitry Trofimov (in Russian)
- Aleksey Lyarsky (in Russian)
- Elmira Abbasova (in Russian)
- Grigory Romanovich Shirma (in Russian)
- Lenur Islamov (in Russian)
- Ilmi Umerov (in Russian)
- Alexander Tizyakov (in Russian)
- Yakov Berliner (in Russian)
- Natalya Bode (in Russian)
- Aleksandr Bordsky (in Russian)
- Naum Granovsky (in Russian)
- Vladimir Grebnev (in Russian)
- Yakov Davidzon (in Russian)
- Olga Ignatovich (in Russian)
- Olga Lander (in Russian)
- Vasily Malyshev (in Russian)
- Mark Markov-Grinberg (in Russian)
- Vladislav Mikosha (in Russian)
- Moisey Nappelbaum (in Russian)
- Ivan Shagin (in Russian)
- Sergey Strunnikov (in Russian)
- Pavel Troshkin (in Russian)
- Aleksandr Ustinov (photographer) (in Russian)
- Boris Vdovenko (in Russian)
- Georgy Zelma (in Russian)
- Mikhail Oshurkov (in Russian)
- Nikolai Bykov (photographer) (in Russian)
- Vladimir Svidzinsky (in Russian) - Ukrainian poet
- Norbert Wójtowicz (in Russian)
- Orhan Jemal (in Russian) - journalist
- Ablaziz Veliyev (in Russian)