Name | Description | Award Recipients | Date Announced | ||
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Highest decoration awarded by the soviet union | |||||
Hero of Socialist Labor - a state award in the USSR, the highest degree of distinction for labor from 1938 to 1991. | |||||
an order of the Soviet Union established to honour great deeds and services to the Soviet state and society in the fields of production, science, culture, literature, the arts, education, health, social and other spheres of labour activities | December 28, 1920 | ||||
The Lenin Prize (Leninskaya premiya) was one of the most prestigious awards of the Soviet Union for accomplishments relating to science, literature, arts, architecture, and technology. | June 23, 1925 | ||||
Heroic deeds during the Great Patriotic War, later awarded to all surviving veterans of the war. | May 20, 1942 | ||||
one of the highest prizes for citizens of the USSR for outstanding achievements in science and technology, military knowledge, literature and art | December 20, 1939 |