Hero of the Soviet Union again on 15 April 1945 he had flown 207 sorties on the Il-2; he was awarded the title after the end of the war on 29 June 1945. By then he had flown a total of 298 sorties, of which 78 were on the Po-2 and 220 on the Il-2. During the war he flew in a variety of combat operations including the battles for Donbas, Crimea, Minsk, Vitebsk, Vilinus, and Königsberg. Despite being in combat for less than two year and entering the regiment as a regular pilot, he quickly rose through the ranks to the position of squadron commander with the rank of major. Postwar Vorobyov remained in his wartime regiment until March 1947 when he became a squadron commander in the 136th Guards Attack Aviation Regiment, which used the Il-2 and Il-10. He left the unit in August 1948 and went on to graduate from the Air Force Academy in 1952, after which he became deputy commander of flight training in the 580th Attack Aviation Regiment. In 1954 he participated in the polar expedition "North-B", which was tasked with constructing airfields in the arctic. That year he graduated from the Voroshilovgrad Military Aviation School of Pilots; he then was assigned to the 1000th Aviation Regiment, which he was promoted to commander of in November 1955 before being placed in command of the 772th Training Aviation Regiment in January 1958. Shortly before the end of the year he was made head of the 24th Military Aviation School of Pilot Training in Kazakhstan, but in June 1960 he was reassigned to Krasnodar as the head of a school for air gunners. In November 1966 he became chief of staff of the Lugansk Higher Military Aviation School of Navigators until he was promoted to deputy head of the in 1969. He retired from the military in 1973; during his career he flew the Il-2, Il-10, Yak-18, Li-2, An-24. As a civilian he worked in Kiev for the Ministry of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering. He died on 17 March 1991 and was buried in the Baikov Cemetery. Awards and honors Twice Hero of the Soviet Union (19 August 1944 and 29 June 1945) Three Order of Lenin (19 August 1944, 19 August 1945, and 29 June 1945) Two Order of the Red Banner (12 November 1943 and 2 February 1944) Order of Bodgan Khmelnitsky 3rd class