Stepan Markovtsev


Stepan Markovtsev - military officer and aircraft pilot from Soviet Union. He was born on November 20, 1911 in Tomsk Governorate and died on April 8, 1982 in Moscow. He graduated from the Irkutsk High Military Aviation Engineering School. 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 Order of Suvorov, 3rd class, the Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR", the Order of Alexander Nevsky, the Order of the Red Star, the Medal "For the Defence of Moscow", the Medal "For Battle Merit", the Order of Lenin, the Order of the Red Banner, the Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", the Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", the Hero of the Soviet Union, the Medal "In Commemoration of the Battle of Dukla Pass", the Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", the Czechoslovak War Cross 1939–1945, the Jubilee Medal "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy", the Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR".