List of Heroes of the Soviet Union (K)
This article is part of an alphabetical series: see List of Heroes of the Soviet Union for more.
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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Kabak, NikolaiNikolai Kabak | Sergeant | 89th Guards Rifle Division | World War II | 20 December 1943 | Engineers |
Kabakov, GrigoryGrigory Kabakov | Lieutenant | 57th Guards Tank Brigade, 7th Guards Mechanized Corps | World War II | 17 October 1943 | Infantry |
Kabalin, IvanIvan Kabalin | Sergeant | 25th Guards Rifle Division | World War II | 22 February 1944 | Artillery |
Kabalin, NikolaiNikolai Kabalin | Senior sergeant | 21st Guards Mechanized Brigade, 8th Guards Mechanized Corps | World War II | 26 April 1944 | Infantry |
Kabanov, KonstantinKonstantin Kabanov | Lieutenant | 593rd Attack Aviation Regiment, 332nd Assault Aviation Division | World War II | 18 August 1945 | Aviation |
Kabanov, MikhailMikhail Kabanov | Sergeant | 333rd Rifle Division | World War II | 22 February 1944* | Infantry |
Kabanov, PavelPavel Kabanov | Senior sergeant | 71st Guards Rifle Division | World War II | 22 July 1944 | Infantry |
Kabanov, VasilyVasily Kabanov | Captain | 220th Tank Brigade, 5th Shock Army | World War II | 27 February 1945 | Armor |
Kabanov, VladimirVladimir Kabanov | Lieutenant | 7th Guards Attack Aviation Regiment, 230th Assault Aviation Division | World War II | 23 February 1945 | Aviation |
Kabanov, YevgenyYevgeny Kabanov | Senior lieutenant | 12th Guards Dive Bomber Aviation Regiment, 8th Torpedo Aviation Division | World War II | 22 July 1944 | Aviation |
Kaberov, IgorIgor Kaberov | Captain | 3rd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment, 61st Fighter Aviation Brigade | World War II | 24 July 1943 | Aviation |
Kabilov, TulenTulen Kabilov | Sergeant | 24th Guards Rifle Division | World War II | 19 April 1945* | Infantry |
Kabiskoy, AlexanderAlexander Kabiskoy | Senior lieutenant | 721st Fighter Aviation Regiment, 286th Fighter Aviation Division | World War II | 1 July 1944 | Aviation |
Kabitsin, IvanIvan Kabitsin | Lieutenant colonel | 47th Guards Rifle Division | World War II | 15 May 1946 | Infantry |
Kabishev, BorisBoris Kabishev | Senior lieutenant | 958th Attack Aviation Regiment, 280th Assault Aviation Regiment | World War II | 23 February 1945 | Aviation |
Kabushkin, IvanIvan Kabushkin | Junior lieutenant | 208th Partisan Group, Minsk Underground Organization | World War II | 8 May 1965* | Partisans |
Kadyrov, OchilOchil Kadyrov | Red Army man | 399th Rifle Division | World War II | 24 March 1945* | Infantry |
Kalinin, FyodorFyodor Kalinin | Lieutenant | Novorossiysk Naval Base | World War II | 17 November 1943 | Naval infantry |
Kalinin, StepanStepan Kalinin | Sergeant | 64th Rifle Division | World War II | 24 March 1945 | Infantry |
Kalinin, TikhonTikhon Kalinin | Major | 55th Guards Rifle Division | World War II | 25 September 1944* | Artillery |
Kalinic, NikolaiNikolai Kalinic | Senior sergeant | 16th Guards Cavalry Division | World War II | 15 January 1944 | Cavalry |
Kamanin, NikolaiNikolai Kamanin | Senior lieutenant | Special Far Eastern Red Banner Army aviation | Peacetime award | 20 April 1934 | Aviation |
Kaminsky, IvanIvan Kaminsky | Senior lieutenant | 10th Separate Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment, 1st Air Army | World War II | 29 June 1945 | Aviation |
Kamolikov, DmitryDmitry Kamolikov | Sergeant | 1st Guards Airborne Division | World War II | 24 March 1945 | Airborne troops |
Kamozin, PavelPavel 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 |
Kamynin, KirillKirill Kamynin | Sergeant | 12th Guards Rifle Division | World War II | 15 January 1944 | Infantry |
Kamyshev, VladimirVladimir Kamyshev | Red Army man | 415th Riffle Division | World War II | 15 January 1944 | Infantry |
Kantaria, MelitonMeliton Kantaria | Junior sergeant | 150th Rifle Division | World War II | 8 May 1946 | Infantry |
Ivanovich Kapreliants, RafaelRafael Ivanovich Kapreliants | N/A; Civilian | N/A; Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant test pilot | Peacetime award | 15 May 1975 | Aviation |
Karabulin, NikolayNikolay Karabulin | Lieutenant | 215th Attack Aviation Regiment, 47th Mixed Aviation Division | World War II | 12 April 1942 | Aviation |
Karbyshev, DmitryDmitry Karbyshev | Lieutenant general | Military Academy of the Red Army General Staff | World War II | 16 August 1946* | Engineers |
Karelin, AnatolyAnatoly Karelin | Major | 351st Night Fighter Aviation Regiment, 64th Fighter Aviation Corps | Korean War | 14 July 1953 | Aviation |
Karelin, IvanIvan Karelin | N/A; Civilian | N/A; Sokol plant test pilot | Peacetime award | 13 April 1983 | Aviation |
Karelin, KonstantinKonstantin Karelin | Colonel | 23rd Guards Light Artillery Brigade; 5th Artillery Division | World War II | 24 December 1943 | Artillery |
Karelin, Pyotr GrigoryevichPyotr Grigoryevich Karelin | Lieutenant | 3rd Guards Rifle Division | World War II | 16 May 1944* | Infantry |
Karelin, Pyotr PetrovichPyotr Petrovich Karelin | Private | 77th Guards Rifle Division | World War II | 16 November 1943 | Artillery |
Karizhsky, GrigoryGrigory Karizhsky | Major general | 18th Guards Rifle Division | World War II | 5 May 1945 | Generals |
Karmatsky, TimofeyTimofey Karmatsky | Lieutenant | 10th Artillery Division | World War II | 21 September 1943 | Artillery |
Karmishin, DmitryDmitry Karmishin | Captain | 880th Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment, 177th Guards Bomber Aviation Division | Hungarian Revolution of 1956 | 18 December 1956* | Aviation |
Karnachev, StepanStepan Karnachev | Captain | 247th Fighter Aviation Regiment, 203rd Fighter Aviation Division | World War II | 4 February 1944 | Aviation |
Karnachonok, NikolayNikolay Karnachonok | Lieutenant | 434th Fighter Aviation Regiment, 8th Air Army | World War II | 23 November 1942* | Aviation |
Karnakov, MikhailMikhail Karnakov | Red Army man | 303rd Rifle Division | World War II | 7 August 1943* | Artillery |
Karnaukhov, VitalyVitaly Karnaukhov | Private | 121st Rifle Division | World War II | 17 October 1943* | Infantry |
Karnaushenko, MikhailMikhail Karnaushenko | Senior lieutenant | 39th Guards Rifle Division | World War II | 24 March 1945 | Infantry |
Karozin, AlexanderAlexander Karozin | Colonel | 9th Guards Anti-Tank Artillery Brigade, 13th Army | World War II | 6 April 1945 | Artillery |
Karpachov, VasilyVasily Karpachov | Junior sergeant | 281st Rifle Division | World War II | 10 April 1945 | Infantry |
Karpenko, AkimAkim Karpenko | Major | 5th Guards Long-Range Aviation Regiment, 50th Long-Range Aviation Division | World War II | 13 March 1944 | Aviation |
Karpeyev, MikhailMikhail Karpeyev | Lieutenant | 75th Guards Attack Aviation Regiment, 1st Guards Assault Aviation Division | World War II | 29 June 1945 | Aviation |
Karpov, VladimirVladimir Karpov | Lieutenant | 134th Rifle Division | World War II | 4 June 1944 | Infantry |
Karpukhin, Viktor FyodorovichViktor Fyodorovich Karpukhin | Captain | Alpha Group | Soviet-Afghan War | 28 April 1980 | KGB |
Kasatonov, VladimirVladimir Kasatonov | Fleet Admiral | N/A; deputy commander of Soviet Navy | Peacetime award | 25 November 1966 | Navy |
Kasatonov, IvanIvan Kasatonov | Lieutenant | 235th Rifle Division | World War II | 22 July 1944 | Infantry |
Kaverin, IlyaIlya Kaverin | Junior sergeant | 9th Mechanized Corps | World War II | 10 January 1944 | Armor |
Kavtaskin, AndreyAndrey Kavtaskin | Major | 30th Separate Anti-Tank Artillery Brigade, 7th Guards Army | World War II | 26 October 1943 | Artillery |
Kazakevich, DaniilDaniil Kazakevich | Major general | 399th Rifle Division | World War II | 6 April 1945 | Generals |
Kazakov, VasilyVasily Kazakov | Colonel general | 1st Belorussian Front | World War II | 6 April 1945 | Generals |
Kazakov, VasilyVasily Kazakov | Senior sergeant | 141st Rifle Division | World War II | 3 June 1944 | Artillery |
Kazanbaev, SharifzyanSharifzyan Kazanbaev | Sergeant major | 6th Guards Airborne Division | World War II | 13 September 1944* | Airborne troops |
Kharchenko, IvanIvan Kharchenko | Lieutenant | 6th Chemical Engineering Regiment, MoEHE NKVD (Local air defence) | World War II | 2 November 1944 | NKVD |
Kharchenko, MikhailMikhail Kharchenko | N/A; partisan | 2nd Leningrad Partisan Brigade | World War II | 8 April 1942 | Partisans |
Kharuzhaya, VeraVera Kharuzhaya | N/A; partisan | Vitebsk underground group | World War II | 17 May 1960* | Partisans |
Khrunov, YevgenyYevgeny Khrunov | Colonel | Soyuz 5 | Peacetime award | 22 January 1969 | Cosmonaut |
Kirponos, MikhailMikhail Kirponos | Komdiv | 70th Rifle Division | Winter War | 21 March 1940 | Generals |
Kirsanov, AlexanderAlexander Kirsanov | Major general | 76th Guards Rifle Division | World War II | 15 January 1944 | Generals |
Kirsanov, IvanIvan Kirsanov | Major | 20th Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment, 13th Guards Bomber Division | World War II | 15 May 1946 | Aviation |
Kirsanov, VladimirVladimir Kirsanov | Senior lieutenant | 502nd Attack Aviation Regiment, 214th Assault Aviation Division | World War II | 18 August 1945 | Aviation |
Kokushkin, OlegOleg Kokushkin | Lieutenant colonel | 3rd Guards Airborne Division | World War II | 17 October 1943* | Airborne troops |
Kolesov, AlexandrAlexandr Kolesov | Lieutenant | 3rd Guards Airborne Division | World War II | 10 January 1944 | Airborne troops |
Kolesov, Alexander MikhailovichAlexander Mikhailovich Kolesov | Private | 178th Tank Brigade, 10th Tank Corps | World War II | 23 October 1943 | Armor |
Kolin, IvanIvan Kolin | Junior sergeant | 167th Rifle Division | World War II | 10 January 1944 | Engineers |
Kolmakov, PyotrPyotr Kolmakov | Captain | 399th Rifle Division | World War II | 24 March 1945 | Infantry |
Kolobov, LeonidLeonid Kolobov | Colonel | 389th Rifle Division | World War II | 23 September 1944 | Infantry |
Kolodin, AndreyAndrey Kolodin | Lieutenant | 565th Attack Aviation Regiment, 224th Assault Aviation Division | World War II | 18 August 1945 | Aviation |
Kolody, IvanIvan Kolody | Efreitor | 69th Rifle Division | World War II | 30 October 1943 | Signal Corps |
Kologoyda, NikolaiNikolai Kologoyda | Captain | 254th Rifle Division | World War II | 22 February 1944 | Infantry |
Kologrivov, MikhailMikhail Kologrivov | Captain | 6th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment, 11th Assault Aviation Division | World War II | 5 November 1944 | Aviation |
Kolovanov, IvanIvan Kolovanov | Major | 253rd Rifle Division | World War II | 10 January 1944 | Infantry |
Kolpakchi, VladimirVladimir Kolpakchi | Colonel general | 69th Army | World War II | 6 April 1945 | Generals |
Komekbaev, TaimbetTaimbet Komekbaev | Junior sergeant | 128th Rifle Division | World War II | 10 April 1945 | Infantry |
Konev, Ivan NikitichIvan Nikitich Konev | Colonel | 3rd Guards Airborne Division | World War II | 13 September 1944 | Infantry |
Konovalov, VladimirVladimir Konovalov | Captain 3rd rank | L-3, Baltic Fleet Submarine brigade | World War II | 8 July 1945 | Navy |
Konstantinova, TamaraTamara Konstantinova | Lieutenant | 566th Attack Aviation Regiment, 277th Assault Aviation Division | World War II | 29 June 1945 | Aviation |
Korolev, AlexanderAlexander Korolev | Major general | 23rd Rifle Division | World War II | 25 October 1943* | Generals |
Korolev, FyodorFyodor Korolev | Lieutenant | 3rd Guards Artillery Division | World War II | 24 March 1945 | Artillery |
Korolev, GerasimGerasim Korolev | Lieutenant | 301st Rifle Division | World War II | 27 February 1945* | Infantry |
Korolev, IvanIvan Korolev | Lieutenant | 69th Fighter Aviation Regiment, 21st Mixed Aviation Division | World War II | 10 February 1942 | Aviation |
Korolev, JosephJoseph Korolev | Major | 399th Rifle Division | World War II | 24 March 1945 | Infantry |
Korolev, KonstantinKonstantin Korolev | Senior lieutenant | 337th Rifle Division | World War II | 13 November 1943 | Infantry |
Korolev, MatveiMatvei Korolev | Major | 160th Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment, 1st Ukrainian Front aviation | World War II | 27 June 1945 | Aviation |
Korolev, Nikolai FilippovichNikolai Filippovich Korolev | Major general | Osipovichi partisan group | World War II | 1 January 1944 | Partisans |
Korolev, Nikolai MikhailovichNikolai Mikhailovich Korolev | Junior sergeant | 319th Rifle Division | World War II | 19 April 1945 | Infantry |
Korolev, Nikolai StepanovichNikolai Stepanovich Korolev | Sergeant | 3rd Guards Airborne Division | World War II | 10 January 1944* | Airborne troops |
Korolev, PavelPavel Korolev | Captain | 3rd Breakthrough Artillery Division | World War II | 27 June 1945 | Artillery |
Korolev, RomanRoman Korolev | Sergeant | 2nd Guards Rifle Division | World War II | 16 May 1944 | Infantry |
Korolev, Vasily AlexandrovichVasily Alexandrovich Korolev | Red army man | 3rd Guards Cavalry Division | World War II | 31 May 1945 | Cavalry |
Korolev, Vasily IvanovichVasily Ivanovich Korolev | Lieutenant | 147th Fighter Aviation Regiment, 1st Mixed Aviation Division | World War II | 22 February 1943 | Aviation |
Korolev, VitalyVitaly Korolev | Major | 482nd Fighter Aviation Regiment, 322nd Fighter Aviation Division | World War II | 27 June 1945 | Aviation |
Korolev, VladimirVladimir Korolev | Senior sergeant | 4th Guards Anti-tank Artillery Brigade, 69th Army | World War II | 21 February 1945 | Artillery |
Koroteev, KonstantinKonstantin Koroteev | Colonel general | 52nd Army | World War II | 6 April 1945 | Generals |
Korzh, VasilyVasily Korzh | Major general | Pinsk partisan group | World War II | 15 August 1944 | Partisans |
Koshevoy, FyodorFyodor Koshevoy | Lieutenant | 35th Attack Aviation Regiment, 9th Assault Aviation Division | World War II | 6 March 1945 | Aviation |
Koshevoy, OlegOleg Koshevoy | N/A; partisan | Young Guard Komsomol partisan organization | World War II | 13 September 1943* | Partisans |
Kosmachev, MikhailMikhail Kosmachev | Senior sergeant | 21st Guards Tank Brigade, 5th Guards Tank Corps | World War II | 24 March 1945* | Armor |
Kosmodemyanskaya, ZoyaZoya Kosmodemyanskaya | N/A; partisan | Partisan Special Guerrilla Unit (Military Unit No. 9903) | World War II | 16 February 1942* | Partisans |
Kosmodemyansky, AleksandrAleksandr Kosmodemyansky | Senior lieutenant | 350th Guards Heavy Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment, 43rd Army | World War II | 29 June 1945* | Artillery |
Kotyk, ValentinValentin Kotyk | N/A; partisan | Karmelyuka partisan group | World War II | 27 June 1958* | Partisans |
Kovshova, NatalyaNatalya Kovshova | Red army man | 130th Rifle Division | World War II | 14 February 1943* | Infantry |
Kozak, SemyonSemyon 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) |
Kozin, NestorNestor Kozin | Major general | 52nd Guards Rifle Division | World War II | 29 May 1945 | Generals |
Kozlov, VasilyVasily Kozlov | N/A; partisan | Minsk partisan group | World War II | 1 September 1942 | Partisans |
Kramarenko, SergeiSergei Kramarenko | Captain | 176th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment, 324th Fighter Aviation Division | Korean War | 10 October 1951 | Aviation |
Krasavin, KonstantinKonstantin Krasavin | Major | 150th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment, 13th Guards Fighter Aviation Division | World War II | 15 May 1946 | Aviation |
Krasavin, MikhailMikhail Krasavin | Senior sergeant | 14th Sapper Engineering Brigade, 65th Army | World War II | 30 October 1943 | Engineers |
Krasovsky, StepanStepan Krasovsky | Colonel general | 2nd Air Army | World War II | 29 May 1945 | Aviation |
Kreizer, YakovYakov Kreizer | Colonel | 1st Moskva Motor Rifle Division | World War II | 22 July 1941 | Infantry |
Krenkel, ErnstErnst Krenkel | N/A; Civilian | N/A; radio operator drifting station North Pole-1 | Peacetime award | 22 March 1938 | N/A |
Krikalev, SergeiSergei Krikalev | N/A; civilian | N/A; Mir flight engineer | Peacetime award | 27 April 1989 | N/A |
Krivoshein, SemyonSemyon Krivoshein | Lieutenant general | 1st Mechanized Corps | World War II | 29 May 1945 | Generals |
Kucherenko, VladimirVladimir Kucherenko | Captain | 40th Army | Soviet-Afghan War | 26 May 1986 | Aviation |
Kuchinsky, MikhailMikhail Kuchinsky | Captain | 218th Attack Aviation Regiment, 299th Assault Aviation Division | World War II | 23 February 1945 | Aviation |
Kulik, GrigoryGrigory Kulik | Komandarm 1st rank | N/A; Deputy People's Commissar of Defence | Winter War | 21 March 1940 | Generals |
Kurasov, VladimirVladimir Kurasov | Army general | N/A; Senior Warsaw Pact Representative to National People's Army | World War II | 7 May 1965 | Infantry |
Kurkotkin, SemyonSemyon Kurkotkin | Marshal of the Soviet Union | N/A; Chief of Soviet Armed Forces Logistics | World War II | 18 February 1981 | Marshals |
Kurochkin, PavelPavel Kurochkin | Colonel general | 60th Army | World War II | 29 June 1945 | Generals |
Kusimov, TagirTagir Kusimov | Lieutenant colonel | 16th Guards Cavalry Division | World War II | 15 January 1944 | Cavalry |
Kutakhov, PavelPavel 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) |
Kuzmin, MatveyMatvey Kuzmin | N/A; Civilian | N/A; Civilian | World War II | 8 May 1965* | N/A |
Kuznetsov, Mikhail VasilyevichMikhail 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 |
Kuznetsov, Nikolai IvanovichNikolai Ivanovich Kuznetsov | N/A; partisan | Special purpose partisan detachment "Pobediteli" | World War II | 5 November 1944* | NKVD |
Kuznetsov, Nikolai GerasimovichNikolai Gerasimovich Kuznetsov | Admiral of the Fleet | N/A; People's Commissar of the Navy | World War II | 14 September 1945 | Navy |
Kuznetsov, Pyotr IvanovichPyotr Ivanovich Kuznetsov | Junior sergeant | 3rd Guards Airborne Division | World War II | 10 January 1944 | Airborne troops |
Kuznetsov, VasilyVasily Kuznetsov | Colonel general | 3rd Shock Army | World War II | 29 May 1945 | Generals |
Kvachantiradze, VasilijVasilij 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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