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==Honours and awards== [[File:Гречко_Андрей_Антонович_(конверт).jpg|thumb|Portrait of Marshal Grechko featured in the 2003 Russian postal cover]] {| |- |[[File:Hero of the Soviet Union medal.png|20px]] [[File:Hero of the Soviet Union medal.png|20px]] |[[Hero of the Soviet Union]], twice (1 February 1958, 16 October 1973)<ref>[http://www.warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?id=17412 Дважды Герой Советского Союза Гречко Андрей Антонович на сайте «Герои страны»]{{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160803105354/http://www.warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?id=17412 |date=2016-08-03 }}.</ref> |- |[[File:Order of Lenin ribbon bar.png|60px]] |[[Order of Lenin]], six times (December 1942, 1945, 1 February 1958, October 1963, 22 February 1968, 16 October 1973)<ref> [http://www.molodguard.ru/memorial180.htm Сайт «Молодая Гвардия». А. А. Гречко] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304102326/http://www.molodguard.ru/memorial180.htm |date=2016-03-04 }}.</ref> |- |[[File:Order of Red Banner ribbon bar.png|60px]] |[[Order of the Red Banner]], three times (1941, 1944, 1950) |- |[[File:Order suvorov1 rib.png|60px]] |[[Order of Suvorov]], 1st class, twice (1944, 1945) |- |[[File:Order suvorov2 rib.png|60px]] |Order of Suvorov, 2nd class (February 1943) |- |[[File:Order kutuzov1 rib.png|60px]] |[[Order of Kutuzov]], 1st class, twice (1943, 1944) |- |[[File:SU_Order_of_Bogdan_Khmelnitsky_1st_class_ribbon.svg|60px]] |[[Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky (Soviet Union)|Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky]], 1st class (January 1944) |- |[[File:Defkiev rib.png|60px]] |[[Medal "For the Defence of Kiev"]] (1961) |- |[[File:Ribbon bar for the medal for the Defense of Moscow.png|60px]] |[[Medal "For the Defence of Moscow"]] (1944) |- |[[File:Defcaucasus rib.png|60px]] |[[Medal "For the Defence of the Caucasus"]] (1944) |- |[[File:Order_of_Glory_Ribbon_Bar.png|60px]] |[[Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"]] (1945) |- |[[File:SU Medal In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin ribbon.svg|60px]] |[[Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"]] (1969) |- |[[File:SU Medal Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 ribbon.svg|60px]] |[[Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"]] (1965) |- |[[File:SU_Medal_Thirty_Years_of_Victory_in_the_Great_Patriotic_War_1941-1945_ribbon.svg|60px]] |[[Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"]] (1975) |- |[[File:20 years saf rib.png|60px]] |[[Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army"]] (1938) |- |[[File:SU Medal 30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy ribbon.svg|60px]] |[[Jubilee Medal "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy"]] (1948) |- |[[File:40 years saf rib.png|60px]] |[[Jubilee Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"]] (1958) |- |[[File:50_years_saf_rib.png|60px]] |[[Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"]] (1968) |- |[[File:Именная шашка.png|44px]] |Honorary weapon – sword inscribed with golden national emblem of the Soviet Union (22 February 1968) |- |} ;Foreign {| |- |[[File:OrderOfThePeople'sRepublicOfBulgariaRibbon.jpg|60px]] |Order of the People's Republic of Bulgaria, 1st class, twice ([[People's Republic of Bulgaria|Bulgaria]]) |- |[[File:OrderOfGeorgiDimitrovRibbon.jpg|60px]] |[[Order of Georgi Dimitrov]] (Bulgaria) |- |[[File:Sino Soviet Friendship Ribbon.svg|60px]] |[[Medal of Sino-Soviet Friendship]] ([[China]]) |- |[[File:Gold_Star_Hero_CSSR.png|20px]] |[[Hero of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic]] ([[Czechoslovakia]]) |- |[[File:Cs2okg.png|60px]] |[[Order of Klement Gottwald]] (Czechoslovakia) |- |[[File:TCH_CS_Vojensky_Rad_Bileho_Lva_1st_(1945)_BAR.svg|60px]] |[[Military Order of the White Lion]] "For Victory", 1st class (Czechoslovakia) |- |[[File:Czechoslovak_War_Cross_1939-1945_Ribbon.png|60px]] |[[Czechoslovak War Cross 1939–1945|War Cross 1939–1945]] (Czechoslovakia) |- |[[File:Medal for Strngthening Brotherhood in Arms 1 kl.png|60px]] |Medal “For Strengthening Friendship in Arms”, Golden class (Czechoslovakia) |- |[[File:TCH_CS_voj_pametni_medaile_(SSSR)_BAR.svg|60px]] |Military Commemorative Medal with 'USSR' clasp (Czechoslovakia) |- |[[File:FIN_Order_of_the_Lion_of_Finland_4Class_BAR.png|60px]] |[[Order of the Lion of Finland]], Knight, 1st class ([[Finland]]) |- | |[[Order of Karl Marx]] ([[East Germany]]) |- |[[File:Patriotic Order of Merit GDR ribbon bar gold.png|60px]] |[[Patriotic Order of Merit|Patriotic Order of Merit in gold]] (East Germany) |- |[[File:Hu3ofl0.png|60px]] |[[Order of the Flag of the Republic of Hungary]] ([[Hungarian People's Republic|Hungary]]) |- |[[File:HUN_Order_of_Merit_of_the_HPR_1kl_BAR.png|60px]] |Order of Merit of the Hungarian People's Republic, 1st class (Hungary) |- |[[File:HUN_Order_of_Merit_of_the_Hungarian_People's_Republic_BAR.png|60px]] |Order of Merit of the Hungarian People's Republic, 5th class (Hungary) |- |[[File:Order_of_the_Two_Rivers_-_Military_(Iraq)_-_ribbon_bar.png|60px]] |[[Order of the Two Rivers]], military division ([[Iraq]]) |- |[[File:OrdenSuheBator.png|60px]] |[[Order of Sukhbaatar]], twice ([[Mongolian People's Republic|Mongolia]]) |- |[[File:Med_XXXth_anniversary_of_chalkin_gol_victory_rib.PNG |60px]] |Medal "30 Years of the Victory in Khalkhin-Gol" (Mongolia) |- |[[File:POL_Virtuti_Militari_Wielki_BAR.svg|60px]] |Grand Cross of the [[Virtuti Militari]] ([[Polish People's Republic|Poland]]) |- |[[File:POL_Polonia_Restituta_Wielki_BAR.svg|60px]] |Grand Cross of the [[Order of Polonia Restituta]] (Poland) |- |[[File:POL_Polonia_Restituta_Komandorski_BAR.svg|60px]] |Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (Poland) |- |[[File:POL_Order_Krzyża_Grunwaldu_2_Klasy_BAR.svg|60px]] |[[Order of the Cross of Grunwald]], 2nd class (Poland)<ref>[https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WMP19470270210 Uchwała Prezydium Krajowej Rady Narodowej z dnia 24 czerwca 1946 r. o odznaczeniach generałów, oficerów i szeregowych b. 4-go Ukraińskiego Frontu za wybitne zasługi przy wyzwoleniu Polski spod okupacji hitlerowskiej.]</ref> |- |[[File:POL_Medal_za_Odrę_Nysę_i_Bałtyk_BAR.svg|60px]] |[[Medal "For Oder, Neisse and the Baltic"]] (Poland) |- |[[File:POL_Za_Warszawę_1939-1945_BAR.svg|60px]] |[[Medal "For Warsaw 1939-1945"]] (Poland) |- |[[File:POL_Medal_Zwycięstwa_i_Wolności_BAR.svg|60px]] |[[Medal of Victory and Freedom 1945]] (Poland) |- |[[File:POL_Odznaka_Braterstwa_Broni_BAR.png|60px]] |Brotherhood of Arms Medal (Poland) |- |[[File:ROM_Ordinul_Steaua_Republicii_Populare_Române_clasa_I_BAR.svg|60px]] |[[Order of the Star of the Romanian Socialist Republic]], 1st class ([[Romanian People's Republic|Romania]]) |- |[[File:Order_23_august_1_kl_rib.png|60px]] |Order "August 23" (Romania) |- |} ===Other honors=== [[File:Alej_hrdinov_Andrej_Antonovic_Gre%C4%8Dko.jpg|thumb|Bronze bust of Grechko at the Alley of Heroes Monument]] *Bronze busts honoring Grechko were installed in his hometown at the [[Kuybyshevo, Rostov Oblast|Kuibyshevo]] in [[Rostov Oblast]] of Russia and Alley of Heroes Monument in [[Slovakia]].<ref name=":M">{{cite web|url=https://www.stoletie.ru/sozidateli/marshal_vsego_sovetskogo_sojuza_479.htm|title="Маршал всего Советского Союза"|newspaper=stoletie.ru|date=2013-10-17 |access-date=May 26, 2022}}</ref> *Following his death in 1976, the [[Kuznetsov Naval Academy|Order of Lenin and Ushakov Naval Academy]] was renamed to '''Order of Lenin and Ushakov Marshal of the Soviet Union A.A. Grechko Naval Academy''' in honor of him. In 1990, the academy's name was changed to honor [[Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union]] [[Nikolai Kuznetsov (admiral)|Nikolai Kuznetsov]].<ref name=":GT"/> *In 1976, part of the former Mozhayskoye Highway in Moscow from [[Aleksey Yermolov (general)|General Yermolov]] Street to Aminyevskoye Highway was named Marshal Grechko Avenue.<ref name=":GT"/> *A secondary school in Kuibyshevo was named in honor of Grechko.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://excheck.pro/company/6117000194|title=МБОУ КУЙБЫШЕВСКАЯ СОШ ИМ. А.А.ГРЕЧКО|newspaper=excheck.pro|date= |access-date=May 26, 2022}}</ref> *An [[ore-bulk-oil carrier]] and [[oil tanker]] of the Novorossiysk Shipping Company were named in honor of him. *Memorial plaques honoring Grechko were installed on the former headquarters of the [[Kiev Military District]] and former building of the [[Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia]] in Moscow.<ref name=":M"/> *Streets are named after him in: **Russia: [[Krymsk]]<ref name=":M"/> **[[Ukraine]]: [[Sloviansk]], [[Rovenky]], [[Dnipro]], [[Khmelnytsky]] and [[Shostka]]<ref name=":M"/> **[[Uzbekistan]]: [[Nukus]] ***As part of the [[Decommunization in Ukraine|decommunization laws in Ukraine]], Greckho Streets in [[Zhytomyr]] and [[Kyiv]] were renamed to honor [[Vsevolod Petriv]] and [[Ivan Vyhovsky]] respectively.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.istpravda.com.ua/short/2019/12/20/156754/|title=У Києві вулицю Маршала Гречка перейменували на честь гетьмана Івана Виговського|newspaper=Istpravda|date=2019-12-20 |access-date=May 26, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://streets.in.ua/rename.php?lang=ua&town_code=zh|title=Нові назви вулиць Житомира - пошук та список|newspaper=streets.in.ua|date= |access-date=May 26, 2022}}</ref>
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