Viktor Kulikov

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Allegiance Soviet Union Role Member of Parliament Name Viktor Kulikov		Battles/wars World War II Years of service 1939 - 1989 Battles and wars World War II

Birth name Viktor Georgievich KulikovViktor Georgiyevich Kulikov Born 5 July 1921Verkhnyaya Lyubovsha village, Oryol Oblast, Russian SFSR ( 1921-07-05 ) Awards Order of Lenin (4)Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 2nd classOrder of Merit for the Fatherland, 3rd classOrder of Merit for the Fatherland, 4th class Died May 28, 2013, Moscow, Russia Rank Marshal of the Soviet Union

Viktor Georgiyevich Kulikov (Russian: Виктор Георгиевич Куликов; 5 July 1921 – 28 May 2013) was the Warsaw Pact commander-in-chief from 1977 to 1989. He was awarded the rank of the Marshal of the Soviet Union on 14 January 1977.

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Kulikov was born into a peasant family and joined the Red Army in 1939. He saw service in World War II and was made a Hero of the Soviet Union.

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Kulikov commanded the Kiev Military District in 1967–1969 and the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany in 1969–1971. From 1971 until 1977, he served as the Chief of General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces. In 1983, he was awarded a Lenin Prize. Kulikov was a member of the Soviet/Russian parliament 1989–2003. He was awarded the highest Cuban award, the Order of Playa Girón in 2006.

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Kulikov died after extended illness.

Honours and awards

USSR and Russia

Hero of the Soviet Union (3 July 1981)

Order of Merit for the Fatherland;

2nd class II degrees (10 July 2001) - for outstanding contribution to strengthening national defence and an active law-making

3rd class (3 July 1996) - for services to the state and personal contribution to the development and reform of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation

4th class (23 June 2011) - a contribution to strengthening national defence and long-term public activities

Order of Military Merit

Order of Honour (5 July 2006) - for services to strengthen national defence and a lot of work on patriotic education of young people

Four Orders of Lenin (2 July 1971, 21 February 1978, 3 July 1981 and 19 February 1988)

Order of the Red Banner, three times (26 October 1943, 20 July 1944 and 22 February 1968)

Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class, three times (7 September 1943, 12 May 1945 and 6 April 1985)

Order of the Red Star (26 October 1955)

Order for Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR, 3rd class (30 April 1975)

Medal For Courage

Medal for Combat Service

Lenin Prize (1983)

An individual weapon - a gun (on retirement in 1992)

Foreign awards

Order of Sukhbaatar (Mongolia, 1981)

Patriotic Order of Merit, 1st class (GDR, 1981)

Star of People's Friendship, 1st class (GDR, 1985)

Scharnhorst Order, three times (GDR, 1972, 1986, 1987)

Order "For Service to the Motherland and the people", 1st class (GDR, 1970)

Order of Georgi Dimitrov (Bulgaria, 1984)

Order "The People's Republic of Bulgaria", 1st class (1974)

Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta (Poland, 1973)

Order Banner IRR with diamonds (Hungary, 1975)

Order of the Red Star (Hungary, 1985)

Order "For Military Valour", 1st class (NRW, 1983)

Order of the Victorious February (Czechoslovakia, 1985)

Order "For Military Merit", 1st class (Peru, 1972)

Order "On 23 August", 1st class (CPP, 1974)

References

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