Yevgeniya Rudneva - Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors

  • Title of the Hero of the Soviet Union (October 26, 1944, posthumously)
  • Order of Lenin
  • Order of the Red Banner
  • Order of the Red Star
  • Order of the Patriotic War, 1st Class

Monuments to her were built in Moscow, Kerch and the Saltykovka settlement (in Moscow Oblast). The Asteroid 1907 Rudneva, a school in Kerch, streets in Berdyansk, Kerch, Moscow and Saltykovka were named after her.

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