List of Heroes of the Soviet Union (K)
The Hero of the Soviet Union was the highest distinction of the Soviet Union. It was awarded 12,775 times. Due to the large size of the list, it has been broken up into multiple pages.
Recipients (K)
- This along with a * indicates that the title Hero of the Soviet Union was awarded posthumously.
- This indicates a person awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union twice or more. Numbers in parentheses indicate the order of an individual's Hero of the Soviet Union awards.
Name | Rank(s) | Unit(s) | Campaign(s) | Date(s) awarded | Branch(es) |
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Nikolai Kabak | Sergeant | 89th Guards Rifle Division | World War II | 20 December 1943 | Engineers |
Grigory Kabakov | Lieutenant | 57th Guards Tank Brigade, 7th Guards Mechanized Corps | World War II | 17 October 1943 | Infantry |
Ivan Kabalin | Sergeant | 25th Guards Rifle Division | World War II | 22 February 1944 | Artillery |
Nikolai Kabalin | Senior sergeant | 21st Guards Mechanized Brigade, 8th Guards Mechanized Corps | World War II | 26 April 1944 | Infantry |
Konstantin Kabanov | Lieutenant | 593rd Attack Aviation Regiment, 332nd Assault Aviation Division | World War II | 18 August 1945 | Aviation |
Mikhail Kabanov | Sergeant | 333rd Rifle Division | World War II | 22 February 1944* | Infantry |
Pavel Kabanov | Senior sergeant | 71st Guards Rifle Division | World War II | 22 July 1944 | Infantry |
Vasily Kabanov | Captain | 220th Tank Brigade, 5th Shock Army | World War II | 27 February 1945 | Armor |
Vladimir Kabanov | Lieutenant | 7th Guards Attack Aviation Regiment, 230th Assault Aviation Division | World War II | 23 February 1945 | Aviation |
Yevgeny Kabanov | Senior lieutenant | 12th Guards Dive Bomber Aviation Regiment, 8th Torpedo Aviation Division | World War II | 22 July 1944 | Aviation |
Igor Kaberov | Captain | 3rd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment, 61st Fighter Aviation Brigade | World War II | 24 July 1943 | Aviation |
Tulen Kabilov | Sergeant | 24th Guards Rifle Division | World War II | 19 April 1945* | Infantry |
Alexander Kabiskoy | Senior lieutenant | 721st Fighter Aviation Regiment, 286th Fighter Aviation Division | World War II | 1 July 1944 | Aviation |
Ivan Kabitsin | Lieutenant colonel | 47th Guards Rifle Division | World War II | 15 May 1946 | Infantry |
Boris Kabishev | Senior lieutenant | 958th Attack Aviation Regiment, 280th Assault Aviation Regiment | World War II | 23 February 1945 | Aviation |
Ivan Kabushkin | Junior lieutenant | 208th Partisan Group, Minsk Underground Organization | World War II | 8 May 1965* | Partisans |
Sergey Kadanchik | Lieutenant colonel | 318th Rifle Division | World War II | 18 September 1943* | Infantry |
János Kádár | N/A | N/A | Peacetime award | 3 April 1964 | N/A |
Ochil Kadyrov | Red Army man | 399th Rifle Division | World War II | 24 March 1945* | Infantry |
Grigory Kagamylk | Sergeant | 15th Rifle Division | World War II | 18 May 1943* | Infantry |
Pyotr Kagykin | Sergeant | 40th Separate Anti-Tank Brigade, 3rd Shock Army | World War II | 15 May 1946 | Artillery |
Fyodor Kalinin | Lieutenant | Novorossiysk Naval Base | World War II | 17 November 1943 | Naval infantry |
Stepan Kalinin | Sergeant | 64th Rifle Division | World War II | 24 March 1945 | Infantry |
Tikhon Kalinin | Major | 55th Guards Rifle Division | World War II | 25 September 1944* | Artillery |
Nikolai Kalinic | Senior sergeant | 16th Guards Cavalry Division | World War II | 15 January 1944 | Cavalry |
Nikolai Kamanin | Senior lieutenant | Special Far Eastern Red Banner Army aviation | Peacetime award | 20 April 1934 | Aviation |
Ivan Kaminsky | Senior lieutenant | 10th Separate Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment, 1st Air Army | World War II | 29 June 1945 | Aviation |
Dmitry Kamolikov | Sergeant | 1st Guards Airborne Division | World War II | 24 March 1945 | Airborne troops |
Pavel Kamozin | Junior lieutenant (1); Captain (2) | 269th Fighter Aviation Regiment, 236th Fighter Aviation Division (1); 66th Fighter Aviation Regiment, 329th Fighter Aviation Division (2) | World War II | 1 May 1943 (1); 1 July 1944 (2) | Aviation |
Kirill Kamynin | Sergeant | 12th Guards Rifle Division | World War II | 15 January 1944 | Infantry |
Vladimir Kamyshev | Red Army man | 415th Riffle Division | World War II | 15 January 1944 | Infantry |
Meliton Kantaria | Junior sergeant | 150th Rifle Division | World War II | 8 May 1946 | Infantry |
Vasily Kapitonov | Lieutenant Colonel | [[Soviet Union] | World War II | March 27, 1942 | Aviation |
Rafael Ivanovich Kapreliants | N/A; Civilian | N/A; Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant test pilot | Peacetime award | 15 May 1975 | Aviation |
Nikolay Karabulin | Lieutenant | 215th Attack Aviation Regiment, 47th Mixed Aviation Division | World War II | 12 April 1942 | Aviation |
Dmitry Karbyshev | Lieutenant general | Military Academy of the Red Army General Staff | World War II | 16 August 1946* | Engineers |
Anatoly Karelin | Major | 351st Night Fighter Aviation Regiment, 64th Fighter Aviation Corps | Korean War | 14 July 1953 | Aviation |
Ivan Karelin | N/A; Civilian | N/A; Sokol plant test pilot | Peacetime award | 13 April 1983 | Aviation |
Konstantin Karelin | Colonel | 23rd Guards Light Artillery Brigade; 5th Artillery Division | World War II | 24 December 1943 | Artillery |
Pyotr Grigoryevich Karelin | Lieutenant | 3rd Guards Rifle Division | World War II | 16 May 1944* | Infantry |
Pyotr Petrovich Karelin | Private | 77th Guards Rifle Division | World War II | 16 November 1943 | Artillery |
Grigory Karizhsky | Major general | 18th Guards Rifle Division | World War II | 5 May 1945 | Generals |
Timofey Karmatsky | Lieutenant | 10th Artillery Division | World War II | 21 September 1943 | Artillery |
Dmitry Karmishin | Captain | 880th Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment, 177th Guards Bomber Aviation Division | Hungarian Revolution of 1956 | 18 December 1956* | Aviation |
Stepan Karnachev | Captain | 247th Fighter Aviation Regiment, 203rd Fighter Aviation Division | World War II | 4 February 1944 | Aviation |
Nikolay Karnachonok | Lieutenant | 434th Fighter Aviation Regiment, 8th Air Army | World War II | 23 November 1942* | Aviation |
Mikhail Karnakov | Red Army man | 303rd Rifle Division | World War II | 7 August 1943* | Artillery |
Vitaly Karnaukhov | Private | 121st Rifle Division | World War II | 17 October 1943* | Infantry |
Mikhail Karnaushenko | Senior lieutenant | 39th Guards Rifle Division | World War II | 24 March 1945 | Infantry |
Alexander Karozin | Colonel | 9th Guards Anti-Tank Artillery Brigade, 13th Army | World War II | 6 April 1945 | Artillery |
Vasily Karpachov | Junior sergeant | 281st Rifle Division | World War II | 10 April 1945 | Infantry |
Akim Karpenko | Major | 5th Guards Long-Range Aviation Regiment, 50th Long-Range Aviation Division | World War II | 13 March 1944 | Aviation |
Mikhail Karpeyev | Lieutenant | 75th Guards Attack Aviation Regiment, 1st Guards Assault Aviation Division | World War II | 29 June 1945 | Aviation |
Vladimir Karpov | Lieutenant | 134th Rifle Division | World War II | 4 June 1944 | Infantry |
Viktor Fyodorovich Karpukhin | Captain | Alpha Group | Soviet-Afghan War | 28 April 1980 | KGB |
Vladimir Kasatonov | Fleet Admiral | N/A; deputy commander of Soviet Navy | Peacetime award | 25 November 1966 | Navy |
Ivan Kasatonov | Lieutenant | 235th Rifle Division | World War II | 22 July 1944 | Infantry |
Ilya Kaverin | Junior sergeant | 9th Mechanized Corps | World War II | 10 January 1944 | Armor |
Andrey Kavtaskin | Major | 30th Separate Anti-Tank Artillery Brigade, 7th Guards Army | World War II | 26 October 1943 | Artillery |
Daniil Kazakevich | Major general | 399th Rifle Division | World War II | 6 April 1945 | Generals |
Vasily Kazakov | Colonel general | 1st Belorussian Front | World War II | 6 April 1945 | Generals |
Vasily Kazakov | Senior sergeant | 141st Rifle Division | World War II | 3 June 1944 | Artillery |
Sharifzyan Kazanbaev | Sergeant major | 6th Guards Airborne Division | World War II | 13 September 1944* | Airborne troops |
Georgy Kharaborkin | Captain | 20th Tank Brigade, 7th Army | Winter War | 11 April 1940 | Armor |
Ivan Kharchenko | Lieutenant | 6th Chemical Engineering Regiment, MoEHE NKVD (Local air defence) | World War II | 2 November 1944 | NKVD |
Mikhail Kharchenko | N/A; partisan | 2nd Leningrad Partisan Brigade | World War II | 8 April 1942 | Partisans |
Vera Kharuzhaya | N/A; partisan | Vitebsk underground group | World War II | 17 May 1960* | Partisans |
Yevgeny Khrunov | Colonel | Soyuz 5 | Peacetime award | 22 January 1969 | Cosmonaut |
Mikhail Khvatkov | Efreitor | 67th Guards Rifle Division | World War II | 24 March 1945* | Engineers |
Mikhail Kirponos | Komdiv | 70th Rifle Division | Winter War | 21 March 1940 | Generals |
Alexander Kirsanov | Major general | 76th Guards Rifle Division | World War II | 15 January 1944 | Generals |
Ivan Kirsanov | Major | 20th Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment, 13th Guards Bomber Division | World War II | 15 May 1946 | Aviation |
Vladimir Kirsanov | Senior lieutenant | 502nd Attack Aviation Regiment, 214th Assault Aviation Division | World War II | 18 August 1945 | Aviation |
Oleg Kokushkin | Lieutenant colonel | 3rd Guards Airborne Division | World War II | 17 October 1943* | Airborne troops |
Alexandr Kolesov | Lieutenant | 3rd Guards Airborne Division | World War II | 10 January 1944 | Airborne troops |
Alexander Mikhailovich Kolesov | Private | 178th Tank Brigade, 10th Tank Corps | World War II | 23 October 1943 | Armor |
Ivan Kolin | Junior sergeant | 167th Rifle Division | World War II | 10 January 1944 | Engineers |
Pyotr Kolmakov | Captain | 399th Rifle Division | World War II | 24 March 1945 | Infantry |
Leonid Kolobov | Colonel | 389th Rifle Division | World War II | 23 September 1944 | Infantry |
Andrey Kolodin | Lieutenant | 565th Attack Aviation Regiment, 224th Assault Aviation Division | World War II | 18 August 1945 | Aviation |
Ivan Kolody | Efreitor | 69th Rifle Division | World War II | 30 October 1943 | Signal Corps |
Nikolai Kologoyda | Captain | 254th Rifle Division | World War II | 22 February 1944 | Infantry |
Mikhail Kologrivov | Captain | 6th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment, 11th Assault Aviation Division | World War II | 5 November 1944 | Aviation |
Ivan Kolovanov | Major | 253rd Rifle Division | World War II | 10 January 1944 | Infantry |
Vladimir Kolpakchi | Colonel general | 69th Army | World War II | 6 April 1945 | Generals |
Taimbet Komekbaev | Junior sergeant | 128th Rifle Division | World War II | 10 April 1945 | Infantry |
Ivan Nikitich Konev | Colonel | 3rd Guards Airborne Division | World War II | 13 September 1944 | Infantry |
Vladimir Konovalov | Captain 3rd rank | L-3, Baltic Fleet Submarine brigade | World War II | 8 July 1945 | Navy |
Tamara Konstantinova | Lieutenant | 566th Attack Aviation Regiment, 277th Assault Aviation Division | World War II | 29 June 1945 | Aviation |
Alexander Korolev | Major general | 23rd Rifle Division | World War II | 25 October 1943* | Generals |
Fyodor Korolev | Lieutenant | 3rd Guards Artillery Division | World War II | 24 March 1945 | Artillery |
Gerasim Korolev | Lieutenant | 301st Rifle Division | World War II | 27 February 1945* | Infantry |
Ivan Korolev | Lieutenant | 69th Fighter Aviation Regiment, 21st Mixed Aviation Division | World War II | 10 February 1942 | Aviation |
Joseph Korolev | Major | 399th Rifle Division | World War II | 24 March 1945 | Infantry |
Konstantin Korolev | Senior lieutenant | 337th Rifle Division | World War II | 13 November 1943 | Infantry |
Matvei Korolev | Major | 160th Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment, 1st Ukrainian Front aviation | World War II | 27 June 1945 | Aviation |
Nikolai Filippovich Korolev | Major general | Osipovichi partisan group | World War II | 1 January 1944 | Partisans |
Nikolai Mikhailovich Korolev | Junior sergeant | 319th Rifle Division | World War II | 19 April 1945 | Infantry |
Nikolay Korolyov | Sergeant | 3rd Guards Airborne Division | World War II | 10 January 1944* | Airborne troops |
Pavel Korolev | Captain | 3rd Breakthrough Artillery Division | World War II | 27 June 1945 | Artillery |
Roman Korolev | Sergeant | 2nd Guards Rifle Division | World War II | 16 May 1944 | Infantry |
Vasily Alexandrovich Korolev | Red army man | 3rd Guards Cavalry Division | World War II | 31 May 1945 | Cavalry |
Vasily Ivanovich Korolev | Lieutenant | 147th Fighter Aviation Regiment, 1st Mixed Aviation Division | World War II | 22 February 1943 | Aviation |
Vitaly Korolev | Major | 482nd Fighter Aviation Regiment, 322nd Fighter Aviation Division | World War II | 27 June 1945 | Aviation |
Vladimir Korolev | Senior sergeant | 4th Guards Anti-tank Artillery Brigade, 69th Army | World War II | 21 February 1945 | Artillery |
Konstantin Koroteev | Colonel general | 52nd Army | World War II | 6 April 1945 | Generals |
Vasily Korzh | Major general | Pinsk partisan group | World War II | 15 August 1944 | Partisans |
Fyodor Koshevoy | Lieutenant | 35th Attack Aviation Regiment, 9th Assault Aviation Division | World War II | 6 March 1945 | Aviation |
Oleg Koshevoy | N/A; partisan | Young Guard Komsomol partisan organization | World War II | 13 September 1943* | Partisans |
Mikhail Kosmachev | Senior sergeant | 21st Guards Tank Brigade, 5th Guards Tank Corps | World War II | 24 March 1945* | Armor |
Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya | N/A; partisan | Partisan Special Guerrilla Unit (Military Unit No. 9903) | World War II | 16 February 1942* | Partisans |
Aleksandr Kosmodemyansky | Senior lieutenant | 350th Guards Heavy Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment, 43rd Army | World War II | 29 June 1945* | Artillery |
Valentin Kotyk | N/A; partisan | Karmelyuka partisan group | World War II | 27 June 1958* | Partisans |
Natalya Kovshova | Red army man | 130th Rifle Division | World War II | 14 February 1943* | Infantry |
Semyon Kozak | Major general (1); Lieutenant general (2) | 73rd Guards Rifle Division | World War II | 26 October 1943 (1); 28 April 1945 (2) | Infantry (1); Generals (2) |
Nestor Kozin | Major general | 52nd Guards Rifle Division | World War II | 29 May 1945 | Generals |
Vasily Kozlov | N/A; partisan | Minsk partisan group | World War II | 1 September 1942 | Partisans |
Sergei Kramarenko | Captain | 176th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment, 324th Fighter Aviation Division | Korean War | 10 October 1951 | Aviation |
Konstantin Krasavin | Major | 150th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment, 13th Guards Fighter Aviation Division | World War II | 15 May 1946 | Aviation |
Mikhail Krasavin | Senior sergeant | 14th Sapper Engineering Brigade, 65th Army | World War II | 30 October 1943 | Engineers |
Stepan Krasovsky | Colonel general | 2nd Air Army | World War II | 29 May 1945 | Aviation |
Yakov Kreizer | Colonel | 1st Moskva Motor Rifle Division | World War II | 22 July 1941 | Infantry |
Ernst Krenkel | N/A; Civilian | N/A; radio operator drifting station North Pole-1 | Peacetime award | 22 March 1938 | N/A |
Sergei Krikalev | N/A; civilian | N/A; Mir flight engineer | Peacetime award | 27 April 1989 | N/A |
Semyon Krivoshein | Lieutenant general | 1st Mechanized Corps | World War II | 29 May 1945 | Generals |
Vladimir Kucherenko | Captain | 40th Army | Soviet-Afghan War | 26 May 1986 | Aviation |
Mikhail Kuchinsky | Captain | 218th Attack Aviation Regiment, 299th Assault Aviation Division | World War II | 23 February 1945 | Aviation |
Grigory Kulik | Komandarm 1st rank | N/A; Deputy People's Commissar of Defence | Winter War | 21 March 1940 | Generals |
Leen Kullman | Junior politruk | N/A; Partisan | World War II | 8 May 1963* | Partisans |
Yevgeniy Kungurtsev | Lieutenant (1); Senior lieutenant (2) | 15th Guards Attack Aviation Regiment, 277th Assault Aviation Division | World War II | 23 February 1945 (1); 19 April 1945 (2) | Aviation |
Caesar Kunikov | Major | 305th Separate Naval Infantry Battalion, Black Sea Group of Forces | World War II | 17 April 1943* | Navy |
Vladimir Kurasov | Army general | N/A; Senior Warsaw Pact Representative to National People's Army | World War II | 7 May 1965 | Infantry |
Semyon Kurkotkin | Marshal of the Soviet Union | N/A; Chief of Soviet Armed Forces Logistics | World War II | 18 February 1981 | Marshals |
Pavel Kurochkin | Colonel general | 60th Army | World War II | 29 June 1945 | Generals |
Tagir Kusimov | Lieutenant colonel | 16th Guards Cavalry Division | World War II | 15 January 1944 | Cavalry |
Pavel Kutakhov | Major (1); Chief Marshal of the Air Force (2) | 19th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment, 258th Fighter Aviation Regiment (1); N/A; Commander of the Soviet Air Forces (2) | World War II (1); Peacetime award (2) | 1 May 1943 (1); 15 August 1984 (2) | Aviation (1); Marshals (2) |
Matvey Kuzmin | N/A; Civilian | N/A; Civilian | World War II | 8 May 1965* | N/A |
Mikhail Vasilyevich Kuznetsov | Major (1); Lieutenant colonel (2) | 814th Fighter Aviation Regiment, 207th Fighter Aviation Division (1); 106th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment, 11th Guards Fighter Aviation Division (2) | World War II | 8 September 1943 (1); 27 June 1945 (2) | Aviation |
Nikolai Ivanovich Kuznetsov | N/A; partisan | Special purpose partisan detachment "Pobediteli" | World War II | 5 November 1944* | NKVD |
Nikolai Gerasimovich Kuznetsov | Admiral of the Fleet | N/A; People's Commissar of the Navy | World War II | 14 September 1945 | Navy |
Pyotr Kuznetsov | Junior sergeant | 3rd Guards Airborne Division | World War II | 10 January 1944 | Airborne troops |
Vasily Kuznetsov | Colonel general | 3rd Shock Army | World War II | 29 May 1945 | Generals |
Vasilij Kvachantiradze | Sergeant major | 179th Rifle Division | World War II | 24 March 1945 | Infantry |
References
General references
- Shkadov, Ivan, ed. (1987). Герои Советского Союза: Краткий биографический словарь [Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Brief Biographical Dictionary] (in Russian). 1: Abaev-Lubitsch. Moscow: Voenizdat.
- Shkadov, Ivan, ed. (1988). Герои Советского Союза: Краткий биографический словарь [Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Brief Biographical Dictionary] (in Russian). 2: Lyubov-Yashchuk. Moscow: Voenizdat. ISBN 5203005362.
- "Проект "Герои Страны"" [Heroes of the Country] (in Russian).
- Russian Ministry of Defence Database «Подвиг Народа в Великой Отечественной войне 1941—1945 гг.» [Feat of the People in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945] (in Russian).
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