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Viktor Kulikov
Kulikov c. 1981-85
Birth name	Виктор Георгиевич Куликов Viktor Georgiyevich Kulikov
Born	(1921-07-05)5 July 1921 Verkhnyaya Lyubovsha village, Oryol Oblast, Russian SFSR
Died	28 May 2013(2013-05-28) (aged 91) Moscow, Russia
Allegiance	Soviet Union
Years of service	1939–1989
Rank	Marshal of the Soviet Union (1977–1989)
Battles / wars	World War II
Awards	Hero of the Soviet Union

Viktor Georgiyevich Kulikov (Russian: Виктор Георгиевич Куликов; 5 July 1921 – 28 May 2013) was the Warsaw Pact commander-in-chief from 1977 to 1989. He was awarded the rank of the Marshal of the Soviet Union on 14 January 1977.

Kulikov was born into a peasant family and joined the Red Army in 1939. He saw service in World War II and was made a Hero of the Soviet Union.

Kulikov commanded the Kyiv Military District in 1967–1969 and the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany in 1969–1971. From 1971 until 1977, he served as the Chief of General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces. In 1983, he was awarded a Lenin Prize. Kulikov was a member of the Soviet/Russian parliament 1989–2003. He was awarded the highest Cuban award, the Order of Playa Girón in 2006.

Kulikov died after, a long illness, on 28 May 2013.

Honours and awards

USSR and Russia

• Hero of the Soviet Union (3 July 1981)
• Order of Merit for the Fatherland;
  • 2nd class II degrees (10 July 2001) - for outstanding contribution to strengthening national defence and an active law-making
  • 3rd class (3 July 1996) - for services to the state and personal contribution to the development and reform of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
  • 4th class (23 June 2011) - a contribution to strengthening national defence and long-term public activities
• Order of Military Merit
• Order of Honour (5 July 2006) - for services to strengthen national defence and a lot of work on patriotic education of young people
• Four Orders of Lenin (2 July 1971, 21 February 1978, 3 July 1981 and 19 February 1988)
• Order of the Red Banner, three times (26 October 1943, 20 July 1944 and 22 February 1968)
• Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class, three times (7 September 1943, 12 May 1945 and 6 April 1985)
• Order of the Red Star (26 October 1955)
• Order for Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR, 3rd class (30 April 1975)
• Medal For Courage
• Medal for Combat Service
• Lenin Prize (1983)
• An individual weapon - a gun (on retirement in 1992)

Foreign awards

• Order of Sukhbaatar (Mongolia, 1981)
• Patriotic Order of Merit, 1st class (GDR, 1981)
• Star of People's Friendship, 1st class (GDR, 1985)
• Scharnhorst Order, three times (GDR, 1972, 1986, 1987)
• Order "For Service to the Motherland and the people", 1st class (GDR, 1970)
• Order of Georgi Dimitrov (Bulgaria, 1984)
• Order "The People's Republic of Bulgaria", 1st class (1974)
• Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta (Poland, 1973)
• Order Banner IRR with diamonds (Hungary, 1975)
• Order of the Red Star (Hungary, 1985)
• Order "For Military Valour", 1st class (NRW, 1983)
• Order of the Victorious February (Czechoslovakia, 1985)
• Order "For Military Merit", 1st class (Peru, 1972)
• Order "On 23 August", 1st class (CPP, 1974)

References

1. "Granma.cu -Mariscal de la URSS recibe orden Playa Girón". Archived from the original on January 3, 2007. Retrieved December 31, 2006.
2. Скончался маршал Советского Союза Виктор Куликов (in Russian). RIA Novosti. 28 May 2013. Retrieved 28 May 2013.

External links

• Text of a 2005 interview
• Biografia in Russian

v t e Commanders of the Warsaw Pact
Supreme Commanders	Ivan Konev (1955–60) Andrei Grechko (1960–67) Ivan Yakubovsky (1967–76) Viktor Kulikov (1977–89) Pyotr Lushev (1989–91)
Chiefs of Combined Staff	Aleksei Antonov (1955–62) Pavel Batov (1962–65) Mikhail Kazakov (1965–68) Sergei Shtemenko (1968–76) Anatoly Gribkov (1976–89) Vladimir Lobov (1989–91)

v t e Chiefs of the Russian General Staff
Red Army (1917–1946)	Nikolay Potapov 1917-1918 Revolutionary Military Council (1918-1921) Nikolai Stogov 1918-1919 Alexander Svechin 1919-1919 Nikolay Rattel 1919-1921 Nikolay Rattel 1918-1918 Fyodor Kostyayev 1918-1919 Mikhail Bonch-Bruyevich 1919-1919 Pavel Lebedev 1919-1921 Pavel Lebedev (1921–24) Mikhail Frunze (1924–25) Sergey Kamenev (1925) Mikhail Tukhachevsky (1925–28) Boris Shaposhnikov (1928–31) Vladimir Triandafillov (1931) Alexander Yegorov (1931–37) Boris Shaposhnikov (1937–40) Kirill Meretskov (1940–41) Georgy Zhukov (1941) Boris Shaposhnikov (1941–42) Aleksandr Vasilevsky (1942–45) Aleksei Antonov (1945–46)
Soviet Armed Forces (1946–1992)	Aleksandr Vasilevsky (1946–48) Sergei Shtemenko (1948–52) Vasily Sokolovsky (1952–60) Matvei Zakharov (1960–63) Sergey Biryuzov (1963–64) Matvei Zakharov (1964–71) Viktor Kulikov (1971–77) Nikolai Ogarkov (1977–84) Sergey Akhromeyev (1984–88) Mikhail Moiseyev (1988–91) Vladimir Lobov (1991)
Russian Armed Forces (1992–present)	Viktor Dubynin (1992) Mikhail Kolesnikov (1992–96) Viktor Samsonov (1996–97) Anatoly Kvashnin (1997–2004) Yuri Baluyevsky (2004–08) Nikolai Makarov (2008–12) Valery Gerasimov (2012–present)

v t e Commanders-in-Chief of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany
Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany (1945–54)	Georgy Zhukov (1945–46) Vasily Sokolovsky (1946–49) Vasily Chuikov (1949–53) Andrei Grechko (1953–57)
Group of Soviet Forces in Germany (1954–89)	Andrei Grechko (1953–57) Matvei Zakharov (1957–60) Ivan Yakubovsky (1960–61) Ivan Konev (1961–62) Ivan Yakubovsky (1962–65) Pyotr Koshevoy (1965–69) Viktor Kulikov (1969–71) Semyon Kurkotkin (1971–72) Yevgeny Ivanovsky (1972–80) Mikhail Zaitsev (1980–85) Pyotr Lushev (1985–86) Valery Belikov [ru] (1986–87)
Western Group of Forces (1989–94)	Boris Snetkov (1987–90) Matvey Burlakov (1990–94)
‡ Chief of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany

• 1921 births
• 2013 deaths
• People from Oryol Oblast
• Members of the Central Committee of the 24th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
• Members of the Central Committee of the 25th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
• Members of the Central Committee of the 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
• Members of the Central Committee of the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
• United Russia politicians
• Seventh convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
• Eighth convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
• Ninth convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
• Tenth convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
• Eleventh convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
• Members of the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union
• Third convocation members of the State Duma (Russian Federation)
• Marshals of the Soviet Union
• Warsaw Treaty Organization people
• Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union alumni
• Soviet military personnel of World War II
• Heroes of the Soviet Union
• Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class
• Commanders with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta
• Recipients of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1944–1989)
• Recipients of the Order of Lenin
• Recipients of the Order of the Red Star
• Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner
• Recipients of the Order of Military Merit (Russia)
• Recipients of the Order of Honour (Russia)
• Recipients of the Medal "For Courage" (Russia)
• Recipients of the Lenin Prize
• Recipients of the Patriotic Order of Merit
• Recipients of the Scharnhorst Order
• Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class
• Recipients of the Medal of Zhukov
• Recipients of the Medal "For Distinction in Guarding the State Border of the USSR"
• Frunze Military Academy alumni