OREANDA-NEWS  Vladimir Putin presented the Gold Star medals to the holders of the title of Heroes of Russia at the Kremlin Palace. 

The awards were awarded to Deputy Chief of Staff of the Eastern District of the National Guard Troops, Colonel Sergei Belozerov, —commander of the special purpose company 785 of the separate detachment of the 10th separate brigade of the Special Forces of the Southern Military District, Major Alexander Volkov, senior test pilot of the State Flight Test Center of the Ministry of Defense, Colonel Sergei Demyanenko, Deputy commander of the 124 separate tank battalion 76 of the Guards Airborne Assault Airborne Divisions Major Boris Dudko, Commander of the 7th separate Guards motorized rifle regiment of the 11th Army Corps of the Baltic Fleet, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Zavadsky, Deputy commander of the 31st separate Guards Airborne assault brigade, Lieutenant Colonel Sergey Ishtuganov, mechanic-driver of the reconnaissance platoon 175 of the 76th Guards Airborne Assault Division, Corporal David Malyikin, commander of the motorized rifle company 200 of the separate motorized rifle brigade of the 14th Army Corps of the Northern Fleet Captain Pavel Semenko, Deputy Head of the 929th State Flight Test Center of the Ministry of Defense, Colonel Maxim Stefanov, Deputy commander of the parachute company for military and political work of the 56th Guards Airborne Assault Regiment of the 7th Guards Airborne Division Denis Skakunovsky, Test cosmonauts of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Research and Testing Center Ivan Wagner and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov.

The ceremony is timed to the Day of Heroes of the Fatherland, which is celebrated in Russia on December 9.