Alexey Sorokin (admiral)
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Order for Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR |
Alexey Ivanovich Sorokin (
Sorokin was born one of five children. His father, a veteran invalid of the Russian Civil War, died in 1933 and his brother, Seraphim, was reported as missing in action at the front near Moscow in March 1942. Sorokin joined the Red Army in 1941 and served as a mortar operator. He was promoted to lieutenant, commanding a mortar battery and fought during the liberation of Belarus and with the Baltic Front.
After the war, Sorokin served as a
Sorokin became chief political officer of the
Sorokin served as a People's Deputy in the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union in 1989–91. In retirement he lived in Moscow and was president of the International Union of CIS War Veterans (Pensioners) Associations.
Sorokin died on 4 March 2020 at the age of 97. He was buried in the Federal Military Memorial Cemetery on 6 March.[1]
Honours and awards
- Order of Lenin
- Order of October Revolution
- Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class, twice, and 2nd class
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Order of the Red Star, twice
- Order for Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR, 3rd class
- Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary since the Birth of Vladimir Il'ich Lenin"
- Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
References
- ^ Peshkov, Aleksandr (6 March 2020). "С адмиралом Сорокиным простились на мемориальном кладбище в Мытищах" (in Russian). tvzvezda.ru. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
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