Nikolay Voronov

Nikolay Nikolayevich Voronov (Никола́й Никола́евич Во́ронов; born May 5 1899 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire; died February 28, 1968, in Moscow, Soviet Union) was a Soviet military leader, Chief Marshal of Artillery (1944), and Hero of the Soviet Union (May 7, 1965). He was commander of artillery forces of the Red Army from 1941 until 1950.

Honours and awards

 * Hero of the Soviet Union
 * Order of Lenin, six times
 * Order of the October Revolution
 * Order of the Red Banner, four times
 * Order of Suvorov, 1st Class, three times
 * Order of the Red Star
 * Medal "For the Defence of Leningrad"
 * Medal "For the Defence of Stalingrad"
 * Medal "For the Defence of Moscow"
 * Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
 * Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
 * Medal "For the Victory over Japan"
 * Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army"
 * Jubilee Medal "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy"
 * Jubilee Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
 * Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
 * Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"
 * Medal "In Commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of Leningrad"
 * Honorary weapons

Foreign awards:
 * Order of Sukhbaatar (Mongolia)
 * Order of Red Banner (Mongolia)
 * Order of the Partisan Star, 1st class (Yugoslavia)
 * Order of National Liberation (Yugoslavia)
 * Cross of Grunwald, 1st class (Poland)
 * Commander of the Order of Polonia Restituta (Poland)

Nikolay Voronov is interred in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis at the Red Square.

Dates of rank

 * Kombrig November 26, 1935
 * Komkor June 20, 1937
 * Colonel General May 7, 1940
 * Marshal of Artillery January 18, 1943 (equivalent to NATO four star rank)
 * Chief Marshal of Artillery February 21, 1944