List of Heroes of the Soviet Union (K)

The Gold Star medal worn by Heroes of the Soviet Union

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)
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
Kadanchik, SergeySergey Kadanchik	Lieutenant colonel	318th Rifle Division	World War II	18 September 1943*	Infantry
Kadar, JanosJanos Kadar	N/A	N/A	Peacetime award	3 April 1964	N/A
Kadyrov, OchilOchil Kadyrov	Red Army man	399th Rifle Division	World War II	24 March 1945*	Infantry
Kagamylk, GrigoryGrigory Kagamylk	Sergeant	15th Rifle Division	World War II	18 May 1943*	Infantry
Kagykin, PyotrPyotr Kagykin	Sergeant	40th Separate Anti-Tank Brigade, 3rd Shock Army	World War II	15 May 1946	Artillery
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
Khvatkov, MikhailMikhail Khvatkov	Efreitor	67th Guards Rifle Division	World War II	24 March 1945*	Engineers
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
Korolyov, NikolayNikolay Korolyov	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
Kullman, LeenLeen Kullman	Junior politruk	N/A; Partisan	World War II	8 May 1963*	Partisans
Kungurtsev, YevgeniyYevgeniy Kungurtsev	Lieutenant (1); Senior lieutenant (2)	15th Guards Attack Aviation Regiment, 277th Assault Aviation Division	World War II	23 February 1945 (1); 19 April 1945 (2)	Aviation
Kunikov, CaesarCaesar Kunikov	Major	305th Separate Naval Infantry Battalion, Black Sea Group of Forces	World War II	17 April 1943*	Navy
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, PyotrPyotr 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).