Akop Manukyan
Akop Manukyan - physician and aircraft pilot from Soviet Union. He was born on August 16, 1916 in Armavir and died on December 15, 1981 in Kharkiv. He graduated from the Kacha Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots. He was awarded the Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin", the Order of the Patriotic War 1st class, the Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR", the Order of Alexander Nevsky, the Medal "Veteran of Labour", the Medal "For the Defence of the Caucasus", the Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", the Medal "For Battle Merit", the Order of Lenin, the Order of the Red Banner, the Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", the Hero of the Soviet Union, the Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", the Jubilee Medal "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy", the Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR".
