Aleksey Kortunov
Aleksey Kortunov - Minister of the Gas Industry of USSR, Hero of the Soviet Union. He was born on March 28, 1907 in Novocherkassk and died on November 18, 1973 in Moscow. He was awarded the Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin", the Cross of Valour, the Order of Suvorov, 3rd class, the Medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw", the Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR", the Order of Alexander Nevsky, the Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", the Order of Lenin, the Order of the Red Banner, 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 Order of Labour (Czechoslovakia), the Medal "For the Capture of Berlin", the Medal "For Oder, Nysa and the Baltic".
