Fedor Falaleyev
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Fedor Yakovlevich Falaleyev (
Marshal of the aviation
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Early life
Falaleyev was born on 31 May 1899 in Polyanskoye, Vyatka Governorate (present-day Udmurtia), Russian Empire.
Military career
At the beginning of
East Prussian operations.[1]
Following the war, Marshal Falaleyev ran the Gagarin Air Force Academy in Monino, a leading Soviet training and research facility[2] until his death in 1955.[3] He retired from the Air Force in 1950.
Medals and awards
- Order of Lenin (1945) [4]
- Order of the Red Banner, three times (1942, 1944, 1949)
- Order of Suvorov, 1st class, twice (1944, 1945), 2nd class (1944)[5]
- Order of Kutuzov, 1st class (1944)[5]
- Order of the Red Star (1941)
- Order of the Badge of Honour (1936)
- Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army" (22 February 1938)
- Medal "For the Defence of Stalingrad" (22 December 1942)
- Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (9 May 1945)
- Commander of the Legion of Honour (France, 1944)
References
- ^ Биографическая справка на сайте выпускников Качинского ВВАУЛ
- ^ Top-level school for military flyers Vladimir Vasyutin, Military Parade Volume 18 Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ SOVIET MARSRAL (sic.) DIES; Feodor Falaleyev Was Head of Air Force Academy in New York Times August 15, 1955
- ^ В память о маршале (к 105-летию со дня рождения Ф.Я.Фалалеева)
- ^ a b Falaleyev, Fedor Yakovlevich, WWII Awards, accessed 15 March 2010
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