Editing Katyusha rocket launcher (section)

== Recognition and honours ==
Participants in the creation of the Katyusha rocket launcher received official recognition only in 1991. By decree of the [[President of the Soviet Union]] [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] dated June 21, 1991, I. T. Kleymenov, [[Georgy Langemak|G. E. Langemak]], V. N. Luzhin, B. S. Petropavlovsky, B. M. Slonimer and [[Nikolai Tikhomirov (chemical engineer)|N. I. Tikhomirov]] were posthumously awarded title of the [[Hero of Socialist Labour]] for their work on the creation of the Katyusha.<ref name="Who_created_Katy">{{cite web |title=Who created the "Katyusha"? Andrey Kostikov: the life and fate of the inventor of "Katyusha" Who is the designer of Katyusha |url=https://orlova-center.ru/en/nasha-rodina/kto-sozdaval-katyushu-andrei-kostikov-zhizn-i-sudba-izobretatelya/ |access-date=5 June 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author= |url=http://base.consultant.ru/cons/cgi/online.cgi?req=doc;base=ESU;n=12573 |title= Указ Президента СССР от 21.06.1991 № УП-2120 «О присвоении звания Героя Социалистического Труда создателям отечественного реактивного оружия»|lang= |website= |publisher=КонсультантПлюс |date= |accessdate=2020-04-14}}</ref>