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List of twice Heroes of the Soviet Union

people awarded Hero of the Soviet Union on two occasions

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ3920021 ↗
Source-derived summary

This is a list of people who were awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union two times. 154 people were double recipients of the award, three people were awarded it three times, and two people were awarded it four times.

See also

Hero of the Soviet Union

References

Bibliography

Shkadov, Ivan (1987). Герои Советского Союза: краткий биографический словарь I, Абаев - Любичев [Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Brief Biographical Dictionary I, Abaev - Lyubichev]. Moscow: Voenizdat. OCLC 313747315.

Shkadov, Ivan (1988). Герои Советского Союза: краткий биографический словарь II, Любовь - Яшчук [Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Brief Biographical Dictionary II, Lyubov - Yashchuk]. Moscow: Voenizdat. ISBN 978-5-203-00536-6.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “List of twice Heroes of the Soviet Union” is people awarded Hero of the Soviet Union on two occasions. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through List, twice and Heroes, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1987, 1988—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, List, twice and Heroes is the immediate research focus.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3920021. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1987 and 1988.

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This entry incorporates text from “List of twice Heroes of the Soviet Union” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.