Alexander Molodchy
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Born | 27 June 1920 Luhansk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
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Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Vinnytsia, Ukraine |
Allegiance | Soviet Union |
Service/ |
Red Army Soviet Long Range Aviation |
Years of service | 1937—1965 |
Rank | Lieutenant-General |
Battles/wars | World War II |
Awards |
Alexander Ignatyevich Molodchy (Russian: Алекса́ндр Игна́тьевич Моло́дчий; Ukrainian: Олександр Гнатович Молодчий, Oleksandr Hnatovych Molodchyi; born on 27 June 1920 – died on 9 June 2002), was a famous pilot of the Soviet Long Range Aviation.
He was made a Hero of the Soviet Union on two separate occasions (22 October 1941 and 31 December 1942).[1] Molodchy was the most effective pilot of Long Range Aviation in the Soviet Union during the World War II. He conducted 311 combat flights (including 287 night flights).[2] Molodchy participated in many bombardments of strategic military facilities of Nazi Germany. His combat mileage reached 600 thousand kilometers. He dropped more than 200 thousand tons of bombs on different military and industrial facilities of the enemy.
The Russian heavy strategic bomber Tupolev Tu-160 (hull No 07) was named «Alexander Molodchy» in honour of pilot.[3]
Awards and Decorations
- Soviet Awards
- Foreign Awards
60px | Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, 2nd and 3rd class (Ukraine) |
Order of the Red Banner (Mongolian People's Republic) |
References
External links
- Articles needing translation from foreign-language Wikipedias
- Articles containing Russian-language text
- Articles containing Ukrainian-language text
- Heroes of the Soviet Union
- Pages with broken file links
- Soviet Air Force generals
- Soviet lieutenant generals
- 1920 births
- 2002 deaths
- Soviet World War II pilots
- Recipients of the Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, 2nd class
- Recipients of the Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, 3rd class
- People from Luhansk
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner
- Recipients of the Order of Alexander Nevsky
- Recipients of the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Star