Galaktion Alpaidze
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Galaktion Yeliseyevich Alpaidze was a Russian military officer of Georgian ethnicity in the former Soviet Army whose career saw military actions in the eastern front of the World War II.
Galaktion Alpaidze
Hero of the Soviet Union
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The title Hero of the Soviet Union was the highest distinction in the Soviet Union, awarded together with the Order of Lenin personally or collectively for heroic feats in service to the Soviet state
Galaktion Alpaidze
…was a program manager in the former Soviet space program and was a director of the Plesetsk Cosmosdrome from 1963–1975 and was a recipient of the Hero of the Soviet Union, and 1977 laureate of the USSR State Prize. Alpaidze was born on 7 November 1916 to Georgian village peasants and raised in the settlement of Kursebi…
Marshal Georgy Zhukov (center) wearing three Hero of the Soviet Union medals and Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky (right) wearing two (1945)
Soldiers of the Red Army's 129th Rifle Division lift their comrades, awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union, in celebration, 1943.
Hero of Soviet Union obelisk of Saint Petersburg.
Hero-Fortress of Brest