Yury Yashin
Yury Yashin (12 February 1930 – 30 July 2011) is a Russian military leader and politician. He was born in Saint Petersburg. He died in Moscow.
He was educated at Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia and Military Academy of the Strategic Missile Forces. Awards received include:
- USSR State Prize
- Order of Lenin
- Order of Honour
- Order of the Red Star
- Order of the October Revolution
- Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class
- Order "For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR", 2nd class
- Order "For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR", 3rd class
- Medal "For Courage in a Fire"
- Medal "For Strengthening of Brotherhood in Arms"
- Order of Courage
- Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"
- Medal "Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
- Medal "For the strengthening of friendship in arms"
- Order "For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR"
- Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
- Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
- Jubilee Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
- Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
- Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
- Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
- Medal "For Impeccable Service"
- Order of 9 September 1944
- Medal "For Impeccable Service", 3rd class
- Medal "For Impeccable Service", 1st class
- Medal "For Impeccable Service", 2nd class
- Medal "Brotherhood in Arms"
- Russian Federation Government Certificate of Honour