Stěpan Vajda

Czechoslovak soldier (1922–1945)

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Stěpan Vajda (17 January 1922 – 6 April 1945) was a Czechoslovak officer. He was commander of a tank battalion in the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps, which was part of the Red Army during World War II. He was posthumously awarded Hero of the Soviet Union.^[1]

Awards and titles

Soviet state awards and titles

Hero of the Soviet Union (10 August 1945, posthumously)^[2]^[3]
Order of Lenin (10 August 1945, posthumously)

Czechoslovak state awards

two military crosses
Order of the White Lion "For Victory" I degree
Medal "For Bravery"
Sokolovo commemorative medal (1948, posthumously)

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.

References

^ "Д-р Юліян Химинець. Мої спостереження із Закарпаття. - [6] Карпатські українці в чехо-словацькій заграничній армії СССР". exlibris.org.ua. Retrieved 2023-07-21.
^ "kapitán in memoriam Stěpan Vajda | Spolek pro vojenská pietní místa". vets.cz. Retrieved 2023-07-17.
^ "Вайда Степан Николаевич". warheroes.ru. Retrieved 2023-07-17.