Alexander Novikov
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Alexander Novikov
Soviet (Russian) Chief Marshal of the Air Force Novikov Alexander Alexandrovich (1900 - 1976)
From the start of the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945), commander of the Air Force of the Main command of the North-West direction, the Northern and Leningrad fronts. Later, Deputy People's Commissar of Defence of the USSR (for aviation), commander of the Red Army's Air Force. As representative of the Supreme Command Headquarters, coordinated several fronts' combat aviation operations in the Battles of Stalingrad and the Kursk Bulge and operations to liberate the North Caucasus, Ukraine, Byelorussia, the Baltic area and Poland, operations to storm Koenigsberg (present-day Kaliningrad), the Berlin operation and the rout of the Japanese Kwantung Army.
Twice Hero of the Soviet Union, was awarded many orders and medals.
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