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    The Honorary Title "Honoured Test Pilot of the USSR" (Russian: Заслуженный лётчик-испытатель СССР) was a state award of the Soviet Union established on...
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  • 1932, Stalingrad, USSR – 4 April 1984, USSR) was a Soviet test pilot who was a Hero of the Soviet Union, Honoured Test Pilot of the USSR, Lenin Prize holder...
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    Anatoly Kvochur (category Russian test pilots)
    2024) was a Soviet and Russian test pilot. He was awarded the awards Honoured Test Pilot of the USSR (1990) and Hero of the Russian Federation (1992). Anatoly...
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  • Mikhail Vasilyevich Kozlov (category Recipients of the Order of the Red Star)
    test pilot who received the title Hero of the Soviet Union and Honoured Test Pilot of the USSR for his work. As the co-pilot on the maiden flight of the...
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    Viktor Pugachev (category Soviet test pilots)
    Badge of Honour (1983) Order for Personal Courage Honoured Test Pilot of the USSR (1991) Order of Ivan Kalita (Moscow Region (2008) Prize Laureate. Vladimir...
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  • Eduard Yelyan (category Soviet test pilots)
    work received many high honors including the titles Hero of the Soviet Union and Honoured Test Pilot of the USSR. Yelyan was born on 20 August 1926 to an...
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  • September 1932 — 7 November 2004) — Honoured Test Pilot of the USSR (1984), captain (1978). Gudov was born in Svinets village of Kursk Oblast and was raised in...
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    Toktar Aubakirov (category Soviet test pilots)
    Order of Lenin (1988) Honoured Test Pilot of the USSR (1990) Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR (1991, last recipient) Pilot-Cosmonaut of Kazakhstan (1994, first...
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  • Yuri Sukhov (category Soviet test pilots)
    including the title Hero of the Soviet Union and Honoured Test Pilot of the USSR. After retiring from work as a test pilot he worked as an engineer at the Tupolev...
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    Amet-khan Sultan (category Soviet test pilots)
    speak any of the languages of Dagestan. Twice Hero of the Soviet Union (24 August 1943 and 29 June 1945) Honoured Test Pilot of the USSR (23 September...
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  • Nikolai Rybko (category Soviet test pilots)
    among the first ten people awarded the title Honoured Test Pilot of the USSR. In 1963 he retired from Tupolev, having been a lead engineer in the bureau...
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  • Valentin Vasin (category Soviet test pilots)
    helicopters such as the Mil Mi-1, Mil Mi-4, Mil Mi-8. In 1966 he was awarded the title Honoured Test Pilot of the USSR for his flight test work. He also held...
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    Igor Volk (category Soviet test pilots)
    daughter at the Bykovskoye Memorial Cemetery in Zhukovsky. Hero of the Soviet Union Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR Honoured Test Pilot of the USSR Zhukovsky...
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  • Mark Gallay (category Soviet test pilots)
    on the house where he lived in Moscow and a minor planet is named in his honor. Hero of the Soviet Union (1 May 1957) Honoured Test Pilot of the USSR (17...
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  • Nina Rusakova (category Soviet test pilots)
    12 November 1997) was one of the first female test pilots and the only woman awarded the title Honoured Test Pilot of the USSR. Rusakova was born on 25...
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  • Fyodor Burtsev (category Soviet test pilots)
    decorated test pilot of the Gromov Flight Research Institute. A recipient of the titles Hero of the Soviet Union and Honored Test Pilot of the USSR for his...
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  • and a test pilot serving in the Soviet space program. Sergei Anokhin was born in Moscow on 19 March 1910. He worked on the railroads until the 1930s when...
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    The Honorary Title "Merited Test Navigator of the USSR" (Russian: Заслуженный штурман-испытатель СССР) was a military and civilian state award of the...
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  • in altitude on USSR-1 Viktor Pugachyov, test pilot and pioneer of supermaneuverability, the first to show Pugachev's Cobra maneuver of Su-27 Eduard Pulpe...
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    Oleksandr Halunenko (category Ukrainian test pilots)
    a Ukrainian test pilot, Honoured Test Pilot of the USSR, the president of the Ukrainian Federation of Aeronautical Sports (member of the Fédération Aéronautique...
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    Soviet of the USSR of May 22, 1940" (in Russian). Legal Library of the USSR. 1940-05-22. Retrieved 2012-02-25. "Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme...
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  • Vladimir Ilyushin (category Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR)
    Defence of Moscow" (1945) Medal of de Lavaux (FAI, 1963) Lenin Prize (1976) State Prize of the Russian Federation (1996) Honoured Test Pilot of the USSR (1966)...
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    Aleksandr Shcherbakov (Soviet politician) (category Members of the Orgburo of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks))
    Honoured Test Pilot of the USSR, a Hero of the Soviet Union, Ph.D.; granddaughter Elena Alexandrovna Scherbakova (b. 1952), People's Performer of the...
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    Vladimir Kokkinaki (category Soviet test pilots)
    January 1985) was a test pilot in the Soviet Union, notable for setting twenty-two world records and serving as president of the Fédération Aéronautique...
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  • Konstantin Kokkinaki (category Soviet test pilots)
    three Orders of Lenin, three Orders of the Patriotic War first class, two Orders of the Red Star and the title Honoured Test Pilot of the USSR. Kokkinaki...
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  • Yuri Abramovich (category Soviet test pilots)
    Birth of Vladimir Il'ich Lenin" Medal "Veteran of Labour" Honoured Test Pilot of the USSR List of Heroes of the Russian Federation Президент Российской Федерации...
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    (abolished) Honoured Builder of the Russian Federation Honoured Forestry Specialist of the Russian Federation Honoured Test Pilot of the Russian Federation...
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    Marina Popovich (category Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR)
    Soviet test pilot. In 1964, she became the third woman and the first Soviet woman to break the sound barrier. Known as "Madame MiG", for her work in the Soviet...
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  • Yuri Garnaev (category Soviet test pilots)
    unclear. Hero of the Soviet Union (21 August 1964) Honoured Test Pilot of the USSR (21 August 1964) Order of Lenin (21 August 1964) Order of the Patriotic...
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    Svetlana Savitskaya (category Soviet test pilots)
    the field of research, development and utilization of outer space, many years of honest work, public activities Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR Honoured Master...
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