Please answer the following question: Facts: - battles: operation bagration - death date: july 7 , 1997 december 14 , 1921 - commands: 28th guards fighter aviation regiment - rank: guards colonel - placeofburial: old cemetery , kolomna - awards: order of alexander nevsky order of the great patriotic war -lrb- of 2 -rrb- order of the red star -lrb- 2 -rrb- the red banner -lrb- 4 -rrb- order - birth date: december 14 , 1921 - serviceyears: 1940 - 1960 - name: leonid alexandrovich bykovets - branch: red air force - unit: 3rd air army 3rd belorussian front - death place: kolomna , russian federation - birth place: kolomna , soviet union Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of leonid bykovets .
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guards colonel leonid alexandrovich bykovets -lrb- , december 14 , 1921 - july 7 , 1997 -rrb- was a soviet airman who was awarded the title of hero of the soviet union in 1945 for valour during the german-soviet war .