the Order of Alexander Nevsky, № 33460. Awarded to Endel Puusepp, a Soviet bomber pilot of Estonian origin. He participated in the operation to locate the plane of Sigizmund Levanevsky, which disappeared in the Arctic. He also flew to the ice station Northopole-1 on several occasions and visited other Soviet Arctic stations. In 1941 under the command of Mikhail Vodopianov, Puusepp participated in his first bombing mission. After a successful air raid on Berlin, his airplane was heavily damaged by anti-aircraft artillery and resulting in an emergency landing in Estonia. Due to Puusepp the crew avoided being captured and returned to Soviet-controlled territory safely. By 1942 Endel Puusepp completed over 30 nighttime strategic bombing campaigns against Berlin, Danzig and Konigsberg. He was a recipient of the Hero of the Soviet Union award for flying a high-ranking delegation over the front line from Moscow to Washington, D.C. and back to negotiate the opening of the Western Front.