Stěpan Vajda

Stěpan Vajda was a Czechoslovak officer. He was commander of a tank battalion in the [1st Czechoslovakia|Czechoslovak Army Corps in the Soviet Union|1st Czechoslovak Army Corps], which was part of the Red Army during World War II. He was posthumously awarded Hero of the Soviet Union.

Awards and titles

Soviet state awards and titles

Czechoslovak state awards

two military crosses
Order of the White Lion "For Victory" I degree
Medal "For Bravery"
Sokolovo commemorative medal

Honours

He was buried in the Polish village of Pogrzebień. In 1948 the ashes were reburied in Ostrava, where a monument was erected.
In the native village of Dulovo and in the city of Tiachiv there are busts of a tanker. In Opava, Czech Republic, and in Tworków, Poland, where Vajda died, monuments to Vajda were erected. In the tank school in Opava and in the village of Dulovo, museums were opened.
His name is given to the street in Uzhhorod.
On 9 May 1967, the frontier outpost Porayuv of the Polish Border Guard Troops was named after Stěpan Vajda.